Appeal No. 2005-1853 2
Application No. 09/915,751
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A method for managing compression of pages of memory in a system
comprising physical memory, wherein the physical memory comprises system memory,
the method comprising:
receiving a system memory access;
locating a page translation entry for the system memory access in a page
translation table;
determining if a page in the physical memory and referenced by the page
translation entry is compressed or uncompressed;
if said determining indicates the page is compressed:
decompressing the compressed page to produce a decompressed page;
writing the decompressed page to the physical memory; and
providing a first physical memory address of the decompressed page in the physical
memory to fulfill the system memory access.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Garber et al. (Garber) 5,699,539 Dec. 16, 1997
Claims 1 through 4, 22, 33, 34, 36, 38 through 42, 55 through 61, 63, 67, 73, 78, 79,
93, 94, 97, 98, 100, 102, 125, 129 and 131 through 134 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Garber.
Claims 5 through 9, 17 through 21, 25 through 28, 35, 37, 43 through 45, 62, 64
through 66, 68 through 72, 74 through 76, 80 through 89, 95, 96, 99, 101, 103 through
117, 126 through 128 and 130 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Garber.
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