Appeal No. 2001-0956
Application No. 08/994,250
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. An apparatus in a primary RAID disk array
controller including a plurality of disks comprising:
a first cache memory partition operable for caching;
and
a second cache memory partition operable as a virtual
solid state disk storage device.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Matsumoto et al. (Matsumoto) 5,517,632 May 14, 1996
DeKoning et al. (DeKoning) 5,761,705 Jun. 2, 1998
(filed Apr. 4, 1996)
Loechel et al. (Loechel) 5,895,485 Apr. 20, 1999
(filed Feb. 24, 1997)
Nelson et al. (Nelson), “Caching in the Sprite Network File
System,” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 6(1), pp. 134-54
(Feb. 1988).
Claims 1 through 30 and 38 through 50 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Matsumoto in view
of DeKoning or Loechel.
Claims 31 through 37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Matsumoto in view of either DeKoning
or Loechel and in further view of Nelson.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 14) and the
answer (paper number 15) for the respective positions of the
appellants and the examiner.
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