Appeal No. 2004-1020
Application No. 09/486,908
it is greater than the first cache line, the output
transfers by two consecutive cache lines (sic).
Appellant contends that Pawlowski discloses a device which,
in response to a data output request, outputs an amount of data
that corresponds to the amount of data that can be stored between
neighboring output start addresses, and does not output an amount
of data greater than the amount of data that can be stored
between neighboring output start addresses. Appellant maintains
that Pawlowski “does not permit the access of the data storage
device in amounts other than entire cache lines” (principal
brief-page 7), whereas the instant invention permits an overlap
of the memory regions that can be retrieved based on the output
start addresses of the memory device so that multiple requests of
the device may not be required when accessing an amount of memory
larger than the spacing of the possible output start addresses,
providing an advantage of speed.
The conflict between the positions of the examiner and
appellant appears to stem from the examiner’s consideration of
Pawlowski’s I/O module, together with the main memory, as
constituting the claimed “data storage device,” whereas appellant
views only Pawlowski’s main memory as constituting the “data
storage device” of Pawlowski.
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