Ex parte YOSHIYUKI MIYAYAMA et al. - Page 3




                Appeal No. 96-0576                                                                                                            
                Application 07/846,231                                                                                                        



                               (a) decoding a first part of an instruction from the                                                           
                               instruction set;                                                                                               
                                 (b) determining if said instruction requires at least                                                        
                                 one of a READ and a WRITE operation;                                                                         
                                 (c)sending a request to both the MCU and the IOU to                                                          
                                 enter the READ/WRITE state if it is determined in                                                            
                                 step b that a READ and/or a WRITE is required;                                                               
                                 (d) decoding the remainder of the instruction to                                                             
                                 determine the address(es) to be accessed by the READ                                                         
                                 and/or WRITE operation;                                                                                      
                                 (e) decoding the address(es) to be accessed, the                                                             
                                 decoding performed by at least one of the MCU and the                                                        
                                 IOU to determine whether the access is directed                                                              
                                 toward memory or I/O devices; and                                                                            
                                 (f) cancelling one of said requests to the MCU and IOU                                                       
                                 based on the results of said decoding step (e).                                                              
                         The Examiner relies on the following references:                                                                     
                Stinson et al. (Stinson)                          4,757,439                July 12, 1988                                      
                         Claims 1 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                                                           
                being unpatentable over Stinson.                                                                                              
                         Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the                                                            
                Examiner, reference is made to the briefs  and answer for the        2                                                        

                         2Appellants filed an appeal brief on January 27, 1995.  We                                                           
                will refer to this appeal brief as simply the brief. Appellants                                                               
                filed a reply appeal brief on July 10, 1995.  We will refer to                                                                
                this reply appeal brief as the reply brief.  The Examiner                                                                     
                responded to the reply brief with a letter, mailed August 16,                                                                 
                1995, stating that the reply brief has been entered and                                                                       
                considered but no further response by the Examiner is deemed                                                                  
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