Ex parte KULAKOWSKI et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1999-0162                                                        
          Application No. 08/414,248                                                  


          was entered by the Examiner.  Accordingly, only the final                   
          rejection of claims 26-45 is before us on appeal.                           
               The claimed invention relates to a method for operating a              
          library of multi-disk cartridges, the library including                     
          multiple disk drives and a cartridge picker.  The cartridge                 
          picker operates to exchange multi-disk cartridges between disk              
          drives.  Each disk drive includes a disk picker for exchanging              
          selected disks with a selected multi-disk cartridge.                        
               Claim 26 is illustrative of the invention and reads as                 
          follows:                                                                    
                    26.  A method for operating a library of multi-disk               
                    cartridges, said library including multiple disk                  
                    drives and a cartridge picker to exchange multi-disk              
                    cartridges between the disk drives, each disk drive               
                    including a respective disk picker, said method                   
                    comprising:                                                       
                         a first step of operating the cartridge picker               
                              to load a first multi-disk cartridge in a               
                              first one of the disk drives;                           
                         a second step of operating a first disk picker               
                              in the first disk drive to exchange a first             
                              selected disk with the first multi-disk                 
                              cartridge;                                              
                         a third step of operating the cartridge picker               
                              to unload the first multi-disk cartridge                
                              from the first disk drive;                              
                         a fourth step of operating the cartridge picker              
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