Appeal No. 97-1206 Page 4
Application No. 08/219,555
basis so that ATTENTION DATA from one of said plurality of
SCSI targets for one of said host processors can be cleared
without clearing any other ATTENTION DATA, with said method
comprising the steps of:
receiving at said controller a command from one of said
plurality of host processors for one of said plurality of SCSI
targets;
determining if said controller contains ATTENTION DATA
from said one of said plurality of SCSI targets;
determining if said command is a request for ATTENTION
DATA when said controller contains ATTENTION DATA from said
one of said plurality of SCSI targets;
returning ATTENTION DATA from said controller to said one
of said plurality of host processors for said one of said
plurality of SCSI targets and clearing at said controller only
the ATTENTION DATA for said one of said plurality of host
processors from said one of said plurality of SCSI targets
when said command is a request for ATTENTION DATA; and
returning PM DATA for said one of said plurality of SCSI
targets when said controller does not contain ATTENTION DATA
and command is a PM REQUEST.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims follows:
Fischer 4,783,730 November 8,
1988
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