Appeal No. 1999-2252
Application 08/780,790
teaches that the major advantage of using ASI as the21
interface is that "[d]ata is copied from the library to the
application buffer with the stream unlocked, [sic] allowing
for greater concurrency . . ." (Emphasis added). Krieger
therefore requires copying of data to the buffer.
Although Krieger states "[d]ata copying occurs only when22
the application transforms the data between the system input
and output buffers," this copying is between buffers or
allocated memory regions, and not copying of data from a
source device external to main memory, to the fast buffer in
main memory, as claimed.
In addition, the Examiner has made the following three
statements directed to the aspects of the invention found
obvious and the reasons why they were obvious. First, that
read()/write() calls which are used to transfer data between a
device and an application program resident memory location
"could be modified to take an operating system resident fast
buffer argument (representation) as opposed to an application
21Page 80, middle column.
22Page 77, left column; figure 1(c).
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