Appeal No. 2001-0462
Application 08/885,325
reserved cylinders." Although this logical file access to
physical locations correspondence could have been better
developed in Akyürek, we are satisfied that the artisan would
have well appreciated the broadly defined mapping function in
representative claim 20 on appeal is taught if not strongly
suggested or implied to the reader-artisan according to the
general teachings outlined between pages 92 and 93 of this
reference.
Moreover, we note that Akyürek's Topic 6, and specifically
its Implementation Subtopic 6.1 at pages 101 and 102, not only
indicates the equivalence of monitoring the performance of
Akyürek's disk-based system as a kind of tracing operation, this
portion indicates that the disk driver has been modified to
perform the functions essentially set forth in the structure
shown in Figure 1. The showing in Figure 2 at page 102 and the
discussion on that page also clearly indicates a correspondence
of a logical to physical mapping of logical blocks of data to be
written on a disk and shows their rearrangement within the
reserved area on the disk.
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