Appeal No. 96-0950
Application No. 07/727,932
out of data being broadcast by one transmitting processor.
Nothing in the cited art suggests such a data scattering system.
2. AND Means
The examiner finds that use of AND means to determine when
all processors are ready for a task (such as a data transmission)
was well known in the art. Examiner’s Answer at 7, lines 14-20.
The examiner’s finding that it was well known in art to use
AND means to determine when all processors are ready to transmit
data does not lead one to the claimed invention. The recited AND
means is for receiving ready signals from all the processors and
for outputting a signal back to all the processors. As recited
and as exemplified by Figure 6 of the Specification, AND means
GA1 not only determines when all processors are ready to transmit
data, it also outputs a signal to all the processors.
There is no apparent need to add the proposed AND means to
Quinquis and/or Katzman because Quinquis and Katzman do not
disclose data gathering or scattering between one processor and a
plurality of other processors. Quinquis and Katzman are
concerned with data exchanged between a single originating
processor and a single terminating processor. Quinquis at Column
1, lines 18-27; Katzman at column 25, lines 23-25 and column 82,
lines 1-5. Quinquis and Katzman had no need to determine whether
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