Appeal No. 2004-1020
Application No. 09/486,908
line or consecutive cache lines in memory contain a beginning
portion of the request 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).
For the claim limitation of “wherein selectable output start
addresses are spaced from one another such that an amount of data
that can be stored between neighboring output start addresses is
smaller than an amount of data output in response to said data
output request,” the examiner points to column 6, lines 30-35,
column 7, lines 15-25, column 9, line 56 to column 10, line 15,
column 11, lines 45-58, and column 11, line 64 to column 12, line
8, of Pawlowski.
The examiner explains, at page 4 of the answer:
Data retrieved by the I/O controller to determine which
cache line of data contains the beginning portion of
address requested by the peripheral from the memory.
If this beginning portion of the address is in the
first cache line, then the data output to requested
data by the first cache line. However, if the
retriever determines that a next consecutive cache line
contains the beginning portion of the requested data,
the retriever increments the starting address and uses
the incremented starting address to request the
consecutive cache lines of data from memory. In all
situations, a first cache line of consecutive cache
lines, the data stored in the neighboring starting
address is less than the output address since if the
portion of the starting address provided by the
requested data is in the first cache line, the output
transfers to requested data by first cache line; and if
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