Appeal No. 96-3810
Application No. 08/207,801
Ando discloses a disk recording and reproducing
apparatus. As the examiner states (Answer, page 4), Ando
"comprises means for seeking a particular position on a disk,
reproducing information from the disk, recording data in a
data area on the disk, and recording a table of contents (TOC)
in a separate 'lead-in' area on the disk." As the examiner
further explains, after TOC information is recorded for music
data that has already been recorded, Ando determines the
remaining available space on the disk by reading the position
data for the recorded data and
calculating the space that is left. The examiner concludes
that
Ando "lacks the teaching that the 'remaining time' or
'remaining data area' is divided into a plurality of equally
sized spaces and the size of the plurality of spaces can be
set."
The examiner turns to Strubbe for dividing unrecorded
space into a plurality of units. Strubbe is directed to
integrated control for a television receiver and a video
cassette recorder. Strubbe includes an example in which the
blank space of a video tape is divided into half hour blocks
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