Appeal No. 96-3668
Application 08/314,574
a plurality of peripheral media access devices;
a plurality of physically separated storage cells, each storage cell being capable of
storing one of said media therein;
machine-executed means for physically moving media between said access devices and
said storage cells, said machine-executed means operating to physically mount media on said access
devices as media is physically moved from said storage cells to said access devices;
each access device providing said host processor with access to data files in a data
volume on media that is mounted in an access device;
electronic means for counting the number of times each data file is accessed by an
access device and generating a data file access count;
electronic means for counting the number of times each media is physically mounted by
said mounting means in an access device and generating a media mount count;
electronic means responsive to said data file access count for determining frequently
accessed data files;
electronic means responsive to said media mount count for determining frequently
mounted media; and
electronic means for transferring said frequently accessed data files to said frequently
mounted media.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Clark et al. (Clark) 4,987,533 Jan. 22, 1991
Warr 5,131,087 Jul. 14, 1992
(filed Nov. 21, 1990)
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Warr
and Clark.
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