Appeal No. 1997-4220 Page 7
Application No. 08/394,659
claim language “determining what memory transactions are
effective...” and the subsequent language, consistent with
appellants’ argument, as requiring only memory modifications,
and not the entire program, to be downloaded to the portable
device from the external computer.
The examiner argues that Yokozawa “inherently” teaches the
determination of what memory transactions or the least number
of transactions are effective to change the virtual device
memory from its inital arrangement to a modified arrangement
because Yokozawa teaches programming the portable device from
the external computer. The examiner contends that “in writing
a program to modify the external station’s memory from one
arrangement to another, the user/computer must determine what
memory modifications are required effective to change the
virtual device memory from one arrangement to another
arrangement” [answer-page 6]. We disagree and find no such
“inherency” in Yokozawa’s teachings. Yokozawa does not deal,
at all, with determining what memory transactions or least
number of transactions are effective to change the virtual
memory from an initial arrangement to a modified arrangement
because Yokozawa merely downloads the entire program.
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