Appeal No. 1998-1111
Application 08/539,513
program) transfers control to an output procedure, via a
branch or "perform" statement or any other means; or that
control remains with the output procedure until all output
records are retrieved from memory and stored in an output
file.
Thus, because we find that Ferguson does not teach
transferring control to an input function to retrieve all
input data into memory prior to processing said data, and
because we find that Ferguson does not teach transferring
control to an output function for retrieving all output data
from memory subsequent to processing said data, we will not
sustain the rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as
being anticipated by Ferguson.
Independent claim 6, like claim 1, recites "means for
transferring control to an input function in the computer for
retrieving all input data into the memory of the computer
prior to performing the data processing function," and "means
for transferring control to an output function in the computer
for retrieving all of the output data from the memory of the
computer and storing the output data prior to terminating the
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