Appeal No. 2001-2351
Application No. 08/772,443
1. A disk array controller, comprising:
a peripheral interface control regulating data transfers
from a peripheral to a bus;
a data buffer control regulating data transfers from the bus
to a data buffer;
a host interface control regulating data transfers from the
bus to a host system; and
a snooping circuit, wherein the snooping circuit monitors
the bus for data transfers from the bus to the data buffer and
determines if a current data transfer on the bus matches a
requested data transfer,
wherein, in response to a determination that the current
data transfer on the bus matches a requested data transfer, the
host interface control initiates a transfer of data that is part
of the current data transfer from the bus to the host system
without requiring transfer of the data using the data buffer.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Parks et al. (Parks) 5,623,700 Apr. 22, 1997
(filed Apr. 06, 1994)
Claims 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 17-23, 26 and 31-34 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by Parks.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellants
with regard to the propriety of these rejections are set forth in
the final rejection and the examiner’s substituted answer (Paper
Nos. 17 and 29, respectively) and the appellants’ amended brief
and reply brief (Paper Nos. 23 and 25, respectively).
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