Appeal No. 2000-1289 Page 8
Application No. 08/604,829
claimed subject matter to a person of ordinary skill in the
art.’" In re Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 783, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531
(Fed. Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1051,
189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976)).
Here, Asfour teaches only one group of memories.
Specifically, “memory pool 55 is made up of a number of memory
ports 60, 61, 62 and 63. Each of these memory ports 60-63
contains a single memory bank.” Col. 3, ll. 59-61. Within
the group, one memory bank may be connected to one processing
or data acquisition device at a time. Specifically, “data
acquisition device 90 will load memory bank after memory bank,
as it acquires data. As one memory bank 70 is filled, the
data acquisition device 90 will be connected to a different
memory bank 71 so that
it can load that memory bank.” Col. 9, ll. 4-8. “The
processing device 10 will be connected to the memory bank 70
after the memory bank 70 has been filled by the data
acquisition device 90. The device 10 can then process the
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