Appeal No. 2001-0462
Application 08/885,325
Representative claim 20 is reproduced below:
20. A machine implemented method comprising:
a) tracing a sequence of logical file accesses of interest;
b) mapping the traced logical file accesses to physical
data blocks, and outputting the mapped physical data blocks as
trace;
c) analyzing the trace data, and generating, if possible,
a new set of disk blocks that yield improvement on overall access
time, over the disk blocks accessed.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
McGillis et al. (McGillis) 5,548,788 Aug. 20, 1996
Akyürek et al. (Akyürek), "Adaptive Block Rearrangement,"
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, pages
89-121 (May 1995).
Claims 1, 3-14, 16-32 and 34-38 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies
upon McGillis in view of Akyürek.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective details thereof.
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