Appeal No. 1996-2481 Page 3
Application No. 07/828763
an allocation table and a data region divided into
data areas, each allocation table having entries
corresponding to region data areas, the block
allocation routine for selecting a block in which to
store data;
a data area allocation routine for selecting a
data area within the data region for the selected
block in which to store data, for selecting an
allocation
table entry to correspond to the selected data area,
and for setting the selected allocation table entry
to correspond to the selected data area and to an
allocated state; and
a storage routine for storing data in the
selected data area.
The references relied on by the patent examiner in
rejecting the claims follows:
Hoel et al. 4,942,541 Jul. 17,
1990
(Hoel)
Harari 5,268,870 Dec. 7,
1993. (filed Aug.
6, 1990)
Claims 1-3, 11-18, and 42-45 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Hoel. Claims 19-21 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Harari. Rather
than repeat the arguments of the appellants or examiner in
toto, we refer the reader to the briefs and the answers for
the respective details thereof.
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