Appeal No. 1997-3499
Application 08/366,281
providing data for a virus detection process or any other
external process.
The Examiner states (EA12): "The appellant's admission
that Arnold's and Watson's system would utilize scrubbing
techniques strengthens the examiner's position that one of
ordinary skill in the art would utilize such well known
techniques within the combined system of Watson and Arnold."
The Examiner further states (EA13): "The appellant states on
lines 17-24 of page 13, that the Arnold and Watson's teachings
suggest that the 'data would be provided to the CPU by the
memory controller after any soft or hard errors were corrected
by the scrubber, within its capability'. This clearly
suggests that the appellant is admitting that the teachings of
Arnold and Watson suggest the ability for a memory scrubber to
be utilized to correct any errors within its capability, and
then send the data to the CPU, which performs the virus
(signature) checking operations."
Appellants respond that they did not admit that a memory
scrubber means would provide data for the virus checking of
Arnold and Watson (RBr2): "Simply because memory scrubbing is
an automatic background process in modern computer operations
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