Appeal No. 97-1372 Page 3
Application No. 08/117,337
The examiner relies on the following reference to reject
claims 2 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (Paper No. 24 (Ex.
Ans.) at 4):
C.C. Li, P.P. Chen & W.K. Fuchs, Local Concurrent Error
Detection and Correction in Data Structures Using Virtual
Backpointers, UILU-ENG-87-2264, CSG-73, Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, (Oct. 1987) ("Li").
DISCUSSION
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, either expressly or under the principles
of inherency, each and every element of the claimed invention.
In re Spada, 911 F.2d 705, 707, 15 USPQ2d 1655, 1657 (Fed.
Cir. 1990). Li neither expressly nor inherently discloses
moving list structure data between two memory spaces as
claimed. Instead, Li is directed to local concurrent error
detection (LCED) and local concurrent error correction (LCEC)
in linked data structures using virtual backpointers (Li at
Abstract). The LCED procedure is invoked to verify moves in a
linked data structure (Li at 3). If an error is detected, the
LCEC procedure is invoked to correct the error (Li at 3).
The examiner relies on Li’s Figure 2 (Li at 12) to teach
a virtual memory area (Paper No. 24 at 4). Li shows a virtual
double-linked list structure with virtual backpointers for
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