Appeal No. 1997-4116 Page 12
Application No. 08/589,826
to the need, it mentions neither identifying a damaged page
frame nor placing a corresponding page frame in another
storage element into a non-preferred state so that it cannot
hold fixed data. In addition, an aside of the specification
teaches that "some operating ystems ... provide the capability
to dynamically change storage from non-preferred to preferred
...." (Id.) The aside does not teach that the dynamic
capability solves the need; moreover, it mentions neither
identifying a damaged page frame nor placing a corresponding
page frame in another storage element into a non-preferred
state so that it cannot hold fixed data.
Moore does not cure this deficiency. The examiner admits
that the reference omits a "teaching of changing a state of an
entity based upon its relationship to another entity."
(Examiner’s Answer at 8.)
For the foregoing reasons, we are not persuaded that the
prior art would have suggested identifying a damaged page
frame and placing a corresponding page frame in another
storage element into a non-preferred state so that it cannot
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