Appeal No. 2004-1020
Application No. 09/486,908
element or step thereof. Constant v. Advanced Micro-Devices
Inc., 848 F.2d 1560, 7 USPQ2d 1057 (Fed. Cir. 1988); RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 221 USPQ 385
(Fed. Cir. 1984).
It is the examiner’s position, with respect to the
independent claims 1 and 9, that Pawlowski discloses a data
storage device in a main memory and I/O module, referring to
column 4, lines 5-15. Referring to lines 34-45 and 54-60, of
that column, as well as Figure 1, item 14, the examiner cites
memory cells having stored data with selectable output addresses,
“wherein the specific starting address provided by the request of
data is used to determine which cache line or consecutive cache
lines in memory contain a beginning portion of the requested
data, and outputting the requested data with cache lines or
consecutive cache lines, which are considered to be the selected
output start address” (answer-page 3).
Citing column 4, lines 34-45, column 5, line 66 to column 6,
line 10, and column 6, lines 19-35 and 50-59, of Pawlowski, the
examiner urges that the storage device responds to a data output
request by outputting the stored data beginning with a selected
output start address, “wherein the specific starting address
provided by the request of data is used to determine which cache
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