Appeal No. 2001-1605
Application 08/735,168
determining a partition of the plurality of partitions that
contains the data;
locking the partition in response to the request; and
granting access to the partition.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Crus et al. (Crus) 4,716,528 Dec. 29, 1987
Bhide et al. (Bhide) 5,625,811 Apr. 29, 1997
(Filing date Oct. 31, 1994)
Bireley et al. (Bireley) 5,692,174 Nov. 25, 1997
(Filing date Oct. 5, 1995)
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 through 9, 11 through 15 and 17 through 29 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Bireley.
Claims 10, 16 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Bireley in view of Crus. Claims 1, 5
through 7, 9, 21, 26, 27 and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 as being anticipated by Bhide.
Throughout the opinion, we will make reference to the
briefs1 and the answer for the respective details thereof.
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on February 19, 1999.
Appellants filed a reply brief on June 1, 1999. The Examiner
mailed out an office communication on August 16, 1999, stating
that the reply brief has been entered.
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