Appeal No. 1998-2072
Application No. 08/777,054
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and system for allowing data written
in one direction on a magnetic medium to be read therefrom in the opposite direction.
Representative claim 18 is reproduced below.
18. A method for retrieving uni-directional encrypted data, comprising the steps
of:
reading the encrypted data from a storage media in an opposite direction
from which it was written;
storing the encrypted data read from the media in a data buffer in the order
in which the data was read; and
decrypting the stored data from the data buffer in an opposite direction from
which it was stored.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
McLaughlin 3,766,529 Oct. 16, 1973
Claims 18-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
McLaughlin.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 17) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 21) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 20) and the
Reply Brief (Paper No. 22) for appellants’ position with respect to the claims which stand
rejected.
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