Appeal No. 2006-2011
Application No. 09/996,720
recording the information about usage of the memory card in an area of
memory
of the memory card;
accessing the information about usage of the memory card from the area
of
memory of the memory card using a processor; and
displaying the information about the usage of the memory card on a
display on the
memory card.
14. A data structure in a memory card, comprising, computer readable storage
containing at least one event descriptor about the usage of the memory card, and
for each event descriptor a count representing the number of occurrences of that
event, wherein for each of a plurality of event descriptors an amount of memory
used by an aggregation of events corresponding to respective each of the event
descriptors is provided.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Bueno 5,532,689 July 02, 1996
Bruce et al. (Bruce) 6,000,006 Dec. 07, 1999
Shimizu et al. (Shimizu) US 2002/0107832 Aug. 08,
2002
(filed Oct. 23,
2001)
Himoto et al. (Himoto) 6,478,679 Nov. 12,
2002
(filed July 21,
1999)
No et al. (No) 6,587,140 July 01,
2003
(filed Oct. 23,
1997)
The following rejections are on appeal before us:
1. Claims 14, 30, and 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by the disclosure of Bruce.
2
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