Appeal No. 1999-2216
Application 08/805,399
Appellants have not argued otherwise. The Examiner's
description of Shinjo's flag as "preventing the main
device's data from being used" (FR3) would have been more
complete if he added "for initial program load," but is not
viewed as error.
Appellants argue (Br6): "Because Shinjo teaches that
in initial program load can be performed when the backup
flag is set, the backup flag in Shinjo does not teach or
suggest the indicator recited in Claim 1."
The Examiner responds that "the fact that Shinjo's
system can perform IPL when its indicator is set does not
preclude the use of an indicator to prevent a memory
device's use, as suggested by Yanai" (EA17).
We do not understand Appellant's argument or the
Examiner's response. When the backup flag 15 is set in
Shinjo, no IPL is performed using the main memory 12;
instead, the data from the backup memory 13 is copied to the
main memory 12 (step S6). Thus, setting the flag does
the location of the data." IBM Dictionary of Computing
(10th ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1993). Although DASDs are
usually thought of as hard disks and the like, the memory in
Shinjo meets the general definition of a DASD.
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