Appeal No. 97-1263 Page 3
Application No. 08/219,552
for receiving information in response to said
commands from said designated SCSI targets through
said controller;
said controller further having first processing
means for processing said separate commands from
each of said host processors to said designated
members of said SCSI targets, and second processing
means for processing said information from said
designated members of said SCSI targets to said each
of said plurality of host processors;
each of said designated members of said SCSI
targets having generating means for generating said
information in response to said commands, said
information signifying if a UNIT ATTENTION condition
exists; and
said controller further having first storage
means for storing said information as ATTENTION DATA
from each of said plurality of SCSI targets for each
of said plurality of host processors, when said UNIT
ATTENTION condition exists, said first storage means
further having a separate memory location for each
combination of said SCSI targets and said host
processors. (Spec. at 16-17.)
The references relied on by the patent examiner in
rejecting the claims follow:
Fischer 4,783,730 Nov. 8, 1988
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ANSI X3.131-
1986, “Small Computer System Interface(SCSI)” pp. 26, 51-71,
80-82, 185-86, 194-99, 208-09 (June 23, 1986).
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