DETAILED ACTION
Status of Application
Claims 9-24 are pending in the present application.
Claim Objections
The numbering of claims is not in accordance with 37 CFR 1.126 which requires the original numbering of the claims to be preserved throughout the prosecution. When claims are canceled, the remaining claims must not be renumbered. When new claims are presented, they must be numbered consecutively beginning with the number next following the highest numbered claims previously presented (whether entered or not).
Claims 1-8 have been cancelled, however, the numbering of claims should start with claim 1.
Priority
Applicant’s claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is acknowledged. Applicant has not complied with one or more conditions for receiving the benefit of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 120 as follows:
The Application Data Sheet filed on 11/08/2024 claims the benefit of an application previously filed in the United States, however the prior application filing date does not match USPTO records. Page 3 of the ADS shows prior application number 17/930,013 having a prior application filing date of 11/06/2022, however USPTO records show prior application number 17/930,013 with a filing date of 09/06/2022.
Pertinent Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Sugaya et al, US 20070041295 A1, discloses the areal recording density of the third recording layer is three times or more as high as the areal recording density of the first recording layer and the second recording layer [paragraph 34].
Wyatt et al, US 20050091425 A1, discloses dynamically adjusting operation of the storage system depending on status of the data transfer [Abstract].
Albrecht et al, US 5999351, discloses a first disk surface of the disk has a first track density and a second disk surface of the disk has a second track density; wherein the second track density is preferably greater than the first track density. Each of the several heads contains a transducer to read and write information from and to the disk during the disk rotation. Under this configuration, the lower storage density first disk surface is utilized to store data that are frequently accessed while the higher storage density second disk surface is for storage capacity supplementation [Abstract]. Albrecht discloses a high-density or low-density storage section is selected, depending on the physical location of the data requested by personal computer 10, as shown in block 12. If the low-density storage section is selected, a first set of servo gain-control constants (e.g., K1 . . . Ki) and velocity profile (e.g., D1 . . . Di) are utilized to compute a control output, as depicted in block 13a [col. 6, lines 60-66].
Elhamias et al, US 20060022054 A1, discloses after the QOS negotiation between the host and the card, the host can set the card's configuration according to the host applications' needs. For instance, an MP3 application may require only require a low bit rate and low power, while an image-capture application may require the maintaining high bit rate, and so on. For example, to use the card in a first application APP 1 610, the host sets the card's QOS 611 optimized for the application: for example, it could be an application were the rate and consistency of data transfer is more important that minor amounts of error. In this case, the use of ECC could be used only in as much as it does not affect the transfer rate. At a subsequent time, the host can use the card in another application APP N 620 and resets the card's QOS 621 accordingly: For example, application APP N could require data, such as in medical imaging, to be stored at with highest integrity with speed of far less importance [paragraph 42].
Iwama, US 20060285382 A1, discloses the command for changing the first memory region P to the second region PL designates a memory capacity to be changed and its physical position on the magnetic disk 16. When it is expected that the ambient temperature T decreases below the predetermined temperature Tlim, the user inputs the command for changing the memory regions. The hard disk device 15 performs the following actions: (1) rewrite the converting table and make a correct matching between the logical addresses x and the physical addresses xp; (2) decrease a track density (or a bit density, or the number of tracks) in the region to which the second memory region PL is allocated; and (3) select a memory region (P or PL) in which data are stored according to the ambient temperature T at a time of data-storing [paragraph 31].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 9-24 would be allowable if the claim objections are overcome AND if prior application filing date is corrected.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The prior art of record taken alone or in combination fails to teach and/or fairly suggest wherein said controller can configure multiple alternatives for said first physical storage format attribute corresponding to multiple, predefined values of said areal density; responsive to said receiving, directing the controller to write data having a first areal density to a first location on the storage device, said first areal density having a minimum value of said multiple, predefined values of said areal density; receiving, at said host, a second QoS signal: and operating the host to define a streaming data range on the storage device wherein, in the streaming data range, the host directs the controller to write data having a second areal density that is a noninteger multiple, greater than 1.0, of the first areal density, in combination with other recited limitations in claim 1.
The prior art of record taken alone or in combination fails to teach and/or fairly suggest wherein said controller can configure multiple alternatives for said first physical storage format attribute corresponding to multiple, predefined values of said areal density; responsive to said receiving, directing the controller to write data having a first
areal density to a first location on the storage device, said first areal density having a minimum value of said multiple, predefined values of said areal density: receiving a second QoS signal: and defining a streaming data range on the storage device wherein, in the streaming data range, the host directs the controller to write data having a second areal density that is a noninteger multiple, greater than 1.0, of the first areal density, in combination with other recited limitations in claim 9.
Conclusion
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/Farley Abad/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2181
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