Appeal No. 2001-2236
Application 07/955,669
The cited portions of Coulson do not teach addressless
target selection. The abstract discusses "the sharing of a SCSI
address ID between a SCSI initiator and a target device," which
teaches that the target device has an address, albeit one that is
the same as the SCSI initiator. Column 2, lines 46-68, and
column 8, lines 18-64, discuss address sharing, meaning that the
target has an address which is the same as the initiator.
Nothing in Coulson discusses an addressless target device.
We do not agree with the Examiner's position that address
sharing is not the same thing as assigning an address to the
additional device. Coulson expressly discloses that "address
sharing" means giving the target device an ID address which is
the same as the SCSI initiator. There are many references to the
target having a an ID address (which is not unique), such as:
(1) col. 8, lines 26-29 ("The initiator . . . asserts the ID
address of the target device, which in this case is the same as
the host adapter ID address."); (2) col. 8, lines 38-39 ("The
target . . . has no unique ID address . . . ."); (3) col. 8,
lines 44-45 ("Because it has the same ID address as the
initiator, the target . . . ."); and (4) Fig. 3 showing host
adapter 14 and controller 16D with the same address "ID #7."
Coulson expressly discloses that the separate target device is
assigned a SCSI address and, therefore, does not anticipate the
limitation of "the separate target device not being assigned a
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