Appeal No. 1998-2579
Application 08/350,195
the term rate staggering as used in the appealed claims must
be interpreted in a manner which is consistent with the
disclosed invention. Rate staggering as used in the
specification refers to the ordering of blocks of data in a
disk storage array using calculations to minimize the amount
of buffer storage required by the server [specification, pages
3-5 and page 8]. Note that claims 1, 4 and 7 all recite that
the rate staggering minimizes the buffer space required by the
server or optimizes system bandwidth. We agree with
appellants that Birk has nothing to do with rate staggering to
optimize system bandwidth as disclosed and claimed in this
application.
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