Appeal No. 96-3294
Application 08/055,422
A person of ordinary skill in the art must be presumed to know
something about the art apart from what the references
expressly disclose. In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516,
135 USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA 1962).
As to the limitation of "grouping related files into
filesets," the Examiner finds that Kitajima teaches "the
classification of files into groups based at least in part on
the files read/write ratios allowed for storage allocation"
(Paper No. 2, page 7). While we do not find grouping in
Kitajima, Appellants do not argue this limitation and, hence,
the obviousness of the limitation is not challenged.
As to the limitation of "collecting fileserver access
operation statistics for each of said filesets," Mattson
discloses collecting counts of the number of hits to a group,
which contain the information needed to determine the hit
ratio to data caches of different capacities (col. 7,
lines 26-30). Appellants do not argue this limitation.
As to the limitation of "classifying said filesets into a
plurality of fileset categories having similar collected
access operation statistics," Mattson discloses partitioning a
Least Recently Used (LRU) stack into equivalence classes based
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