Appeal No. 2001-1571
Application 08/958,844
separately. In any event, the grouping is not critical to our
decision.
Considering independent claim 1 from the Examiner’s
rejection of claims 1 though 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) at pages
3-9 of the Examiner’s answer, we note that the Examiner has given
a detailed analysis of his position.
After reviewing Appellant’s arguments and the Examiner’s
response to those arguments, we are persuaded by Appellant that
Ng is directed to a different type of system to read and write to
the memory. Column 4, lines 35-53 of Ng state that the invention
of Ng exploits both circular and non-circular buffer management
techniques by using an adaptive technique that dynamically
adjusts the buffer management rules responsive to the access
pattern of the incoming data access requests “DARs”. The method
of Ng establishes an access pattern detection standard that
distinguishes between a sequential access pattern (SAP) wherein
the incoming DARs specify data blocks in consecutive storage
order, and a non-sequential access pattern (NAP) wherein the
incoming DARs do not specify data blocks in consecutive storage
order. In Ng, the individual buffer memory segments are
independently switched between circular overwrite mode (COM) and
block overwrite mode (BOM) responsive to the detection of the SAP
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