Appeal No. 96-0950
Application No. 07/727,932
The rejections
The Examiner’s Answer lists the following prior art as
relied upon in the rejection:
Quinquis 4,467,418 Aug. 21, 1984
Katzman et al. (Katzman) 4,228,496 Oct. 14, 1980
Claims 1-7 and 9-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Quinquis and Katzman. Examiner’s Answer at 3.
The invention
The claimed invention relates to a system for gathering
and/or scattering data among a number of processors in a parallel
processor computer. A gathering system collects data scattered
among many processors into one processor. A scattering system
distributes data from one processor to other processors.
Specification at 1, lines 6-14.
As shown in Figure 6, the gathering system includes a bus L,
a reception processor P0, an AND gate GA1, and transmitting
processors P1, P2, and P3. Each transmitting processor P(n)
includes a transmission buffer F(n) and a transfer control
circuit U(n). Specification at 12, lines 23-36.
The transfer control circuit consults prestored values to
determine an order of transfer for data in its own processor in
relation to data in other processors. Different but coordinated
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