Appeal No. 1998-0072
Application No. 08/476,786
66-73, which constituted all the pending claims in the
application. An amendment after final rejection was filed on
January 7, 1997 and was entered by the examiner. This
amendment amended claims 60 and 66 and cancelled claims 62-64,
67, 72 and 73. In response to this amendment, the examiner
indicated that claims 68-71 were now directed to patentable
subject matter. Therefore, only claims 60 and 66 remain on
appeal.
The disclosed invention pertains to a multifunction
access circuit for use with first and second digital computers
which can communicate with each other. More specifically, the
invention consists of a dual-ported register file having first
and second address decoders associated therewith. At least
one of the address decoders is programmable to position it in
an address space of a corresponding one of the computers.
Representative claim 60 is reproduced as follows:
60. A multifunction access circuit for use with
first and second digital computers each having an address bus
for supplying addresses and a data bus for transferring data,
the access circuit comprising:
a register file having a first data port including inputs
and outputs connected to the data bus of the first digital
computer and a second data port including inputs and outputs
connected to the data bus of the second digital computer, said
register file having a plurality of storage locations for
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