Appeal No. 97-1206 Page 8
Application No. 08/219,555
position that Fischer does not anticipate the invention of the
claims. Appellants make several arguments which compare the
disclosure of their invention with Fischer (i.e., arguments
concerning a limitation of an ANSI standard) but the disclosed
invention is not the measure of patentability. The relevant
argument made by appellants are that Fischer fails to
discloses the claimed memory comprising separate address
spaces for storing ATTENTION DATA from each of the targets for
each of the processors on a one-to-one basis such that
ATTENTION DATA from one of the targets for one of the hosts
can be cleared without clearing ATTENTION DATA for any of the
other hosts. (Reply Brief, p. 3) The examiner fails to
address this argument.
We agree with the appellants that Fischer fails to
disclose the invention of independent claim 1. Fischer
discloses
interfacing a plurality of processors 2 to a plurality of I/O
devices 42a-42c via an I/O adapter 22a and a main memory 26.
Data transferred between the processors and peripheral devices
are written to the memory in the controller (col. 4, lines 14-
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