Ex parte BERTHE et al. - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1997-1009                                                        
          Application 08/033,731                                                      


          inherent to any process operating on a computer, [sic, ;] when              
          that process needs more space the computer's operating system               
          allocates that memory for its temporary usage" (Answer at 4).               
          While this is true, it does not satisfy the claim language in               
          question, which requires that the temporary memory locations                
          be stored in the corresponding subsets of the data table.                   
               For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claim 1 and                
          its dependent claims 2-8 is reversed, as is the rejection of                
          independent claim 9, and its dependent claims 10 and 11.                    


                                     REVERSED                                        



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