Appeal No. 1998-0821
Application 08/175,319
configuration or timing data) in the system microcomputer . . . and
transferring the servo parameters . . . to the servo microcomputer when a
system command is issued ... .
Appellant argue that the claim requires that the system configuration data and timing data
are stored in the system computer and are transferred to the servo microcomputer at the
same time as the servo command is issued. Appellant argues on pages 5 and 6 that
Malka fails to teach system configuration data or timing data as set forth in Appellant's
claim 20. Appellant has provided a declaration executed by the inventor Randall D.
Hampshire, wherein Mr. Hampshire states that system configuration data are understood
in the disc drive art to be the data that defines the hardware and software of the data
processing system effecting operation of the disc drive in question. Paragraph 2 of the
declaration also sets forth several examples of system configuration data. Mr. Hampshire
further declares in paragraph 11 that the Malka reference fails to teach or suggest system
configuration that defines hardware and software of a disc system.
We agree with the Appellant that neither Malka or Franklin teaches or suggest
a method for carrying out servo operations in a disc drive for controlling the
movement and position of a servo head in relation to servo tracks . . . .
comprising storing a plurality of servo routines, corresponding to servo
commands, in the servo microcomputer for generating the correction signal
from the servo information utilizing preselected servo parameters
comprising at least one of system configuration data and timing data;
storing the servo parameters in the system microcomputer, the system
microcomputer being separate from the servo computer; and transferring the
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