Appeal No. 2004-1558
Application No. 09/283,386
OGL “such that the captured microinstructions placed in the display list of Devic’s
invention are identified with the display list’s unique identifier as taught by [OGL] so that
Devic’s display list can be easily called for execution, as many times as desired”
(answer-page 4).
Appellants point out that Devic describes that the hardware independent output
from the high level graphics library 220 or 230 can “comprise an array of batch cells,
each batch cell representing a separate graphic operation to be performed, and wherein
the array of batch cells is passed to the low level hardware dependent graphics library
to be processed in sequence to generate the microinstructions” (column 4, lines 4-8),
and argue that a “microinstruction is defined as a computer instruction that activates the
circuits necessary to perform a single machine operation, usually as part of the
execution of a machine-language instruction.”
(brief- pages 15-16) (Emphasis added).
Moreover, appellants point out that the hardware-independent “array of batch
cells” of Devic contain one or more graphics primitives to be generated such as points,
lines, polygons, shaded polygons, blended polygons, etc. or a graphics rendering
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