Appeal No. 1996-2481 Page 9
Application No. 07/828763
evidence that the reference teaches the limitation. The
reference’s system executes the following processes: painting,
which creates and stores page image data; allocating, which
maps logical addresses to physical addresses; shipping, which
transmits the page image data to a printer; and deallocating,
which returns physical patches to a queue after printing.
Col. 5, ll. 16-22.
More specifically, the deallocating process deallocates
physical patches and returns the patches to an unordered
queue. During shipping, the raster method of addressing a
pure logical page image memory periodically causes all of the
addresses within the boundary of a patch to have been accessed
and the corresponding physical page image data to have been
retrieved and printed. The contents of the physical patch
that correspond to the target logical patch, after being
printed, are restored to a condition by which the contents of
the physical patch represent a blank page image. The physical
patch has its reference to
the corresponding logical patch removed from the map table and
the location of the physical patch is returned to the
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