The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte RODNEY A. DEKONING, GERALD J. FREDIN, and DONALD R. HUMLICEK _____________ Appeal No. 2001-0956 Application No. 08/994,250 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 50. The disclosed invention relates to a controller with cache memory in a Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) system, and to the use of a portion of the cache memory as a virtual solid state disk storage device.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007