Appeal No. 1999-2216
Application 08/805,399
memory will not be available (or used), via the data in
the backup device will have to be copied to the main
memory for subsequent use by the computer system.
(Abstract and column 1 lines 31-64 and column 2 lines
25-68 and column 3 line 7 to column 4 line 57).
. . .
As per the use of indicators, as described
previously, Shinjo shows the use of indicators which
reflect when the system is to perform the copying
functions from the backup devices to the main device,
thus in a sense, preventing the main device's data from
being used.
Appellants argue (Br5): "[T]he indicator as recited in
Claim 1 is utilized to prevent the local loadsource DASD
from performing an initial program load instead of
'preventing the main device's data from being used' as
asserted by the Examiner on page 3, first [sic, second]
paragraph of the Final Office Action. Hence, the Examiner
has improperly modified the language of Claim 1 to make the
rejection."
The Examiner responds that Shinjo shows a flag for
preventing use of a specific device (EA16).
Setting the flag in Shinjo prevents the main memory
(corresponding to a local DASD ) from being used for IPL and3
A "direct access storage device (DASD)" is defined as3
"[a] device in which access time is effectively independent of
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