Ex Parte AMRO et al - Page 8




                    Appeal No. 2001-0465                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 09/070,039                                                                                                                            


                    RAM used in the cache during prior transmission of screened                                                                                           
                    pages.  Vishlitzky, instead, teaches a system memory having a                                                                                         
                    replacement queue which includes a microcache for selected                                                                                            
                    sequential operations.  If the replacement queue is stressed as                                                                                       
                    determined by the average fall through time of the data elements                                                                                      
                    in the replacement queue compared to a predetermined threshold,                                                                                       
                    then the microcache is used for staging all accesses identified                                                                                       
                    by the sequential operation.  See Vishlitzky, column 3, lines 36                                                                                      
                    through 42.  Therefore, Vishlitzky is using a completely                                                                                              
                    different method for sizing of cache and does not teach or                                                                                            
                    suggest the Appellants' invention.                                                                                                                    



















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