Appeal No. 2006-1783
Application No. 09/183,694
commands from an order of arrival into an order of sequence in
the storage medium. Therefore, contrary to the Examiner’s
position, not only the function of “re-ordering” is claimed, but
it is also recited that the data controller performs such
function.
Upon a review of Krakirian, we remain unconvinced by the
Examiner that CFIFO 217 of Krakirian is the same as the claimed
data controller or performs the re-ordering of commands. The
control first-in-first-out (CFIFO) of Krakirian is an array of
registers (col. 7, lines 57-62) which may receive data or
commands (col. 12, lines 35-43). Although the commands may be
reordered, queued and identified with queue tags (col. 15, lines
18-29) while the microprocessor receives interrupts (col. 15,
lines 34-37), no minimization of interrupts by reordering of
arrivals to an order of sequence in the storage medium, as
recited in claim 21, is described in Krakirian.
Regarding claim 26, Appellants argue that Krakirian
discloses a single command which cannot result in creating
multiple threads of a plurality of commands (suppl. reply brief,
page 4). The Examiner is of the opinion that claim 26 does not
require that plural threads be queued simultaneously (answer,
page 10). The Examiner also states that although Krakirian
discusses creation of a single thread of a plurality of commands,
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