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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2023/0016555 to Cheng et al. (hereinafter Cheng).
Cheng discloses:
1. A computing system comprising:
a host (para. [0062] and Fig. 1, host 200);
a storage device comprising a nonvolatile memory storing user data and map data (para. [0040] and Fig. 1, solid state drive 100);
a memory device comprising a buffer memory and a nonvolatile backup memory; (paras. [0053]-[0057] and Fig. 1, first memory space 21, second memory space 22, third memory space 23) and
a bus connected to the host (Fig. 1, connection between host 200 and interface 28), the storage device and the memory device, wherein the host is configured to, based on power being turned on, identify whether a sudden power-off event has occurred in the storage device, and whether the sudden power-off event has occurred in the memory device (paras. [0040], [0078]).
2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the host is configured to, based on the power being turned on, in response to identifying the sudden power-off event has occurred, request information about the storage device from the memory device (paras. [0066], [0082]-[0084]).
3. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the information about the storage device comprises addresses of a storage space, allocated by the host for the storage device, from among a total storage space of the buffer memory in the memory device (paras. [0066], [0073]).
4. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the host is configured to, based on the power being turned on, in response to identifying the sudden power-off event has occurred, send the information about the storage device from the memory device to the storage device (paras. [0095]-[0096]).
5. The computing system of claim 4, wherein the storage device is configured to request data from the memory device, based on the information about the storage device from the host (paras. [0124]-[0126]).
6. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the storage device is configured to update the map data stored in the nonvolatile memory by using the data from the memory device (paras. [0124]-[0126]).
7. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the storage device is configured to, in response to a typical power-up, send the map data stored in the nonvolatile memory to the memory device, and wherein the memory device is configured to store the map data from the storage device in the buffer memory (para. [0094]).
8. The computing system of claim 7, wherein the memory device is configured to, in response to the sudden power-off event occurring, store the map data present in the buffer memory in the nonvolatile backup memory (para. [0066]).
9. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the memory device is configured to, based on the power being turned on, in response to identifying the sudden power-off event has occurred, load the map data stored in the nonvolatile backup memory onto the buffer memory based on the information about the storage device (paras. [0066], [0073]).
Conclusion
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/PHILIP GUYTON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2113