Appeal No. 96-3294
Application 08/055,422
Claims 1-8
Claim 1 recites using read/write ratios to determine a
plurality of categories of buffer management policies based on
possible ranges of the read/write ratios and to assign files
to a particular buffer management policy corresponding to the
determined read/write ratio for that file.
The Examiner's position with regard to the read/write
ratio is (FR4): "While Mattson failed to describe use of
read/write ratios, Mattson clearly indicated that it was
concerned with 'performance measures, such as hit/miss ratios'
(column 1, lines 21-25). Because Kitajima informed those of
skill in the art that read/write ratios are a significant
performance measure, those of skill in the art would have
known and been motivated to use that performance measure in
Mattson's system."
Appellants argue that "MATTSON does not divide or
partition the files being stored in the partitioned cache in
accordance with read/write ratio" (Br8-9). Appellants argue
that while "KITAJIMA apparently does collect read/write
statistics" (Br9) as part of assigning files to storage
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