Ex parte LITAIZE et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 96-0609                                                           
          Application No. 08/024,803                                                   


                    of said memory shift registers (RDM ) of                           
                                                       j                               
                    said set having a size of one block of                             
                    information and being conected [sic                                
                    connected] to the central memory (RAM) so                          
                    as to enable, in one memory cycle a                                
                    parallel transfer of a block of information                        
                    (bi) between said memory shift register and                        
                    said central memory, the memory shift                              
                    registers of said set of memory shift                              
                    registers being independent of each other                          
                    for simultaneous shifting of blocks of                             
                    information,                                                       
                         a plurality of processor shift registers (RDP1                
                    . . . RDP . . . RDP ) each processor shift registerj         n                                               
          (RDP ) being each connected to the cache memory (MC )j                                            J              
                    of a processor (CPU ) whereby each processor (CPU )j                            j                 
          has            a dedicated cache memory (MC ) and a dedicated                
                                                      j                                
          shift                                                                        
          register (RDP ) for parallel transfer of a block of                          
                                 j                                                     
          information (bi) between said processor shift                                
          register                                                                     
          (RDP ) and said cache memory (MC ),j                         j                                  
                         a set of serial links (LS . . . LS . . . LS ),1        j        n                 
                    each connecting a memory shift register (RDMj) and a               
                    processor shift register (RDP ) for making a private               
                                                  j                                    
                    connection between a paired memory shift register                  
          and                                                                          
                    processor shift register (RDM , RDP ) andj    j                               
          transferring                                                                 
                    at a frequency F of at least 100 megahertz blocks of               
                    information (bi) between the memory shift register                 
          and                                                                          
                    the processor shift register (RDM , RDP )j    j                           
          autonomously                                                                 
                    and independently of other registers and other                     
          serial                                                                       
                    links.                                                             


               The Examiner relied on the following reference:                         
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