Appeal No. 1995-3903 Page 4
Application No. 08/062,737
first means for detecting the occurrence of each
said sector mark from the data read by said
transducer;
second means connected to said first means for
determining and storing from the last two said
sector marks detected by said first means the sector
period for a previous sector to a present sector for
use as a predicted length for the present sector;
and
third means, in response to said sector mark
detected by said first means for said present sector
and said sector period for said previous sector
determined and stored by said second means, for
scheduling the initiation of each of said plurality
of processes so as to maintain said initiation of
each of said processes in a constant spatial
relationship to said predict present sector period
thereby minimizing the effect of variations in the
rotational speed of said rotating media and
synchronizing the initiation of said processes to
said sector mark for the present sector.
The reference relied on by the patent examiner in
rejecting the claims follows:
Moon et al. (Moon) 4,669,004 May 26,
1987.
Claims 37-47 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
obvious over Moon. Rather than repeat the arguments of the
appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the
briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
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