Appeal No. 2001-0462
Application 08/885,325
Appellants' brief presents no arguments as to McGillis and no
arguments against the combinability of McGillis and Akyürek
together within 35 U.S.C. § 103. Appellants' arguments focus
only upon Akyürek.
Although the examiner's statement of the teachings of
Akyürek at page 4 of the answer appear initially to be somewhat
broad, unclear and weakly reasoned, the responsive arguments
portion at page 6 contains a relatively clear correspondence of
the features argued in representative claim 20 on appeal of
tracing a sequence of logical file addresses and the resulting
mapping thereof to physical data blocks. We therefore reproduce
here the substantive remarks of the examiner at page 6 of the
answer:
A component labeled Reference Stream Analyzer
monitors the stream of data requests.
Periodically, it produces a list of hot
(frequently referenced) blocks, ordered by
frequency of reference to be stored in a Hot-Block
Table (see page 92, last paragraph and page 93,
1st paragraph.) The Hot-Block Table is used for
containing a list of those most frequently
accessed blocks and their location addresses in
the reserved cylinders where the most often
accessed data blocks are stored in (see page 92,
7th paragraph.) And the incoming requests are
compared against this list and directed to the
reserved cylinders if the requested block resides
there (i.e., the incoming data requests are
compared with the logical addresses inside the
hot-block-table, if there is a match, then a
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