Appeal No. 96-0281
Application 08/248,625
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 15 through 27, all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claims 1 through 14 have been cancelled.
The invention relates to a system and method for
using a memory management unit to reduce memory requirements
for the operation of a laser printer. Independent claim 15 is
reproduced as follows:
15. A system for managing data in a peripheral
device, said device being responsive to a host computer, the
system comprising:
a processing means for receiving said data from said
host computer and for processing said data;
a memory means coupled with said processing means
for receiving said data from such processing means and for
storing said data, said memory means comprising a plurality of
storage locations, said memory means receiving a physical
address corresponding to one storage location of said plural-
ity of storage locations, said memory means storing said data
at a storage location corresponding to said physical address;
a memory management unit for controlling communica-
tion of said data between said processing means and said
memory means, said memory management unit being coupled with
said processing means and with said memory means, said memory
management unit receiving a virtual address from said process-
ing means, determining said physical address from said virtual
address, and providing said physical address to said memory
means; and
a compression means for reading said data stored in
a first predetermined number of said plurality of storage
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