Appeal No. 2001-1847
Application No. 08/861,157
region, a data field, and an error correction code region. Claim
1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A method for forming a data sector of a recording
medium in a disk drive, the data sector including an
identification region for containing identification information
for the data sector and including a data region for containing
data transferred from an external communication device,
comprising the steps of:
recording a first subpart of the data region at a first
position on the disk drive;
recording a second subpart of the data region at a
separately located second position on the disk drive, said second
subpart of the data region containing the data transferred from
the external communication device; and
recording the identification region at a third position on
the disk drive interposed between the first and second subparts
of the data region, the first subpart of the data region
containing all of first synchronization information for reading
the identification information contained in the identification
region, and containing all of second synchronization information
for reading data contained in the data region.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Greenberg et al. (Greenberg) 4,656,532 Apr. 07, 1987
Gold 5,475,540 Dec. 12, 1995
Prins et al. (Prins) 5,627,695 May 06, 1997
(filed Jan. 12, 1995)
Park 5,631,783 May 20, 1997
(filed May 31, 1995)
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Greenberg.
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