Appeal No. 2003-1770
Application No. 09/526,155
in the list structure 46, not that it is optionally included in
the Frey et al. invention." We agree with appellants.
Frey discloses (column 8, lines 15-19) that the message
processor includes several storage structures including list
structures 46 and 47 and cache structures 45 and 48. Further,
Frey discloses (column 8, lines 34-40) that data objects are
organized in tables or lists, and that they may reside in any of
the storage locations. Thus, a particular table might be located
in list structure 46 or in list structure 47 or even in one of
the cache structures.
Frey states (column 10, lines 67-68) that the contents of
one list structure 46 are shown in Figure 6. As shown in Figure
6 list structure 46 includes a lock table. The portion
referenced by the examiner (column 11, lines 3-6) reads:
The list structure 46 comprises list-structure
controls 66, user controls 67, and, optionally, a lock
table 68, and/or a list set 70 with list controls 69
and list-entry controls 71.
This passage merely lists what may be in list structure 46, not
what is in the invention as a whole. The passage suggests that
the lock table could be somewhere other than list structure 46,
such as in another list structure or in one of the cache
structures (as suggested by the portions referenced supra).
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