Ex Parte DEKONING et al - Page 1



               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.                                            





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