Appeal No. 97-2472 Page 7
Application No. 08/223,770
58 supplies the address and the determined “bank information”
to a system memory machine 60. Id. at ll. 61-64. In
addition, it “handles remapping of one address to another.”
Id. at ll. 51-53.
When Faucher’s computer is initialized, the unit 58 is
configured “to indicate address mapping and the addressing
mode.” Col. 8, ll. 9-10 and 56-60. In addition, when the
amount of memory available to the computer exceeds that which
it requires, the reference allocates only the number of memory
banks 30 needed to satisfy the requirement. This is
accomplished using the unit 58 to reconfigure memory
addresses. Col. 9, ll. 32-40.
It is evident that the address compare/bank
select/remapping unit 58 fails to teach or suggest storing a
value that sets an address location of an index register as
specified in claim 15.
Assuming arguendo that there was a proper suggestion or
motivation to combine Fung with Faucher, the examiner’s
rejection still would not amount to a prima facie case of
obviousness.
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