Appeal No. 1999-2252
Application 08/780,790
detailed above because it would provide the system
taught by Applicant's admitted prior art with the
enhanced capability of a more efficient (i.e.,
faster) transfer of data . . . ."
Finally, the Examiner states "it would be obvious to a15
programmer of ordinary skill to effect a direct memory
transfer between any desired source and destination, as
opposed to performing a copy operation to an intermediate
memory, as the realized enhanced transfer efficiency is self
evident."
Turning first to Appellants' claim 1, we find that the
final subparagraph of this claim provides 16
"directing by the application that the data of the
memory object associated with the fast buffer be
transferred to a sink device via a first data path
without copying any portion of the data to main
memory unless the application attempts to access via
a memory fetch/store, any portion of the
transferring data."
Similarly, claim 6 recites 17
15Answer, pages 10-11.
16Lines 8-12.
17Lines 8-12.
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