Appeal No. 2001-0462
Application 08/885,325
As noted by the examiner, the block arranger in Figure 1 of
Akyürek essentially teaches the feature of analyzing trace data
and then essentially generating a new or updated set of logical
files having a correspondence to physical, reserved space
locations in the disk of Figure 1 as set forth at the end of
representative claim 20 on appeal.
As a final matter, the virtual memory comments made by the
examiner in the Advisory Action appear to us to be subject to
being misconstrued. It appears to us that the examiner is merely
attempting to convey to the reader that within the concept of
virtual addressing, there is a translation or mapping operation
of logical to physical addresses. Appellants's arguments at
pages 8 and 9 of the brief confirm the well-known generalized
understanding in the art for virtual addressing techniques but
are not persuasive to us of patentability of the presently
claimed subject matter. The environment of the claims is not
specific to virtual memory operations, although they appear to
encompass, because of their breadth, the subject matter of
virtual addressing. Logical addressing techniques may occur in
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