Appeal No. 1999-0855
Application No. 08/730,468
reading said data records from said volatile
memory and storing them in said nonvolatile memory in the
order of said sorted record identifiers.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art reference:1
Amsbury, “A Balanced Static BST,” Data Structures From Arrays
to Priority Queues, pp. 456-59 (Wadsworth, Inc., 1985).
Claims 17-23 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art (hereinafter
APA) in view of Amsbury.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs and Answer for the2
respective details.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal,
the rejection advanced by the Examiner, the arguments in
support of the rejection, and the evidence of obviousness
1In addition, the Examiner relies on the admitted prior art at pages 1-
5 of Appellant’s specification.
2The Appeal Brief was filed May 4, 1998 (Paper No. 10). In response to
the Examiner’s Answer dated May 19, 1998 (Paper No. 11), a Reply Brief was
filed July 23, 1998 (Paper No. 12), which was acknowledged and entered by the
Examiner without further comment as indicated in the communication dated July
30, 1998 (Paper No. 13).
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