Appeal No. 2003-1111
Application No. 09/164,088
contained in a page entry table are updated according to the
command and the access information which is generated by an
access control circuit in response to a memory access.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method comprising:
creating a page entry table containing attribute entries
including at least a dependency code of a page of a memory
device, the page entry table storing a state of the page, the
memory device having at least a dependence bank structure, the
dependence bank structure having at least a sense amplifier that
supports more than one bank of memory cells;
processing access information in response to a memory
access;
receiving a command from a circuit; and
updating the attribute entries in the page entry table
according to the command and the access information.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Narayan 5,781,789 Jul. 14, 1998
Yoshioka et al. (Yoshioka) 5,796,978 Aug. 18, 1998
Barth et al. (Barth) 6,154,821 Nov. 28, 2000
(filed Mar. 10, 1998)
Claims 1-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Yoshioka, Narayan and Barth.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 23, mailed
November 5, 2002) for the Examiner’s reasoning and to the appeal
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