Appeal No. 96-2446
Application 08/246,179
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a data processing apparatus within a data processing
system which allows data of various widths to be processed. The system includes an
instruction decoder to decode the instruction, then the instruction is processed by the
calculator/ALU. The system uses the conditional branch designation as a selector signal
to select between the stored flag groups for the different size data. The system further
uses the selected stored flag group to determine whether to perform a branch operation.
Appellants have indicated the grouping of the claims as Group I: claims 1-9; Group
II: claims 10-11; and Group III: claim 12. Appellants have not clearly set
forth separate arguments for patentability for each group as required by 37 CFR
§§ 1.192(c)(7) and 1.192(c)(8)(iv). Appellants have only identified general benefits and
have provided only explicit arguments to claim limitations which are expressly found in
Claim 12 with respect to "simultaneously storing." All other arguments appear to be
directed generally towards limitations found in independent claims 1, 10 and 12.
Therefore, claims 1-11 will be considered as one group with representative claim 1. The
second group will consist solely of claim 12.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus for processing data comprising:
2
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