Appeal No. 95-5030
Application 07/815,694
circuit, said method comprising:
sending a signal from a first device coupled to a
source of data to a second device which receives data from said
first device, said signal indicating that data is ready for
transfer to said second device;
storing information relating to said data, said
information including information indicating the order in which
the information was received by the control circuit;
incrementing the information indicating the order
in which the information was received by the control circuit; and
sending data to said second device in the order of
receipt by the control circuit.
Claim 1 further recites a plurality of buffers for storing
the information relating to the data for transfer, and claim 17
further recites that the information stored in the plurality of
buffers include information for designating a priority for the
data ready for transfer.
Note that claims 2, 17 and 26 have been amended in a paper
concurrently filed with the appellants' reply brief.
Opinion
We do not sustain the obviousness rejection of claims 1-30
over Fava and Miro.
We sustain the rejection of claims 1 and 25 as being
anticipated by Sakon.
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 2-24 and 26-30 as
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