Appeal No. 97-2982 Page 8
Application No. 08/219,554
standard,” they submit, ”the ATTENTION DATA would be cleared
for all host processors.” (Id.)
Regarding independent claim 1, we find that Fischer and
ANSI fail to teach or to have suggested the clearing of
ATTENTION DATA as claimed. The claim recites in pertinent
part “clearing ... only the ATTENTION DATA for said one of
said plurality of host processors from said one of said
plurality of SCSI targets ....” (Id. at 9.) The appellants
assert, “[t]he word only is critical.” (Id. at 6.) They
explain that the claim was amended specifically to recite this
feature to differentiate the claim from the prior art. (Id.)
Comparison of the claim language to Fischer and ANSI evidences
that the references neither teach nor would have suggested the
claimed clearing of ATTENTION DATA.
Fischer discloses interfacing a plurality of processors
20 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 devices are written to a memory in the
reference’s controller. Col. 4, ll. 14-20. The memory
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