Appeal No. 96-0950
Application No. 07/727,932
control of each processor coact in parallel with data processing
in each processor so that there is no waste of processing power.
Column 5, lines 13-22. Katzman’s concern with wasting processing
power does not encourage adding capacity in each processor for
determining an order of transfer when the determination can be
made centrally as disclosed.
When viewed as a whole, the cited prior art did not suggest
a data gathering system having transfer control means for (1)
checking a number of data on a data bus and (2) determining an
order of transfer by the respective transmitting processor of
said plurality of transmitting processors. Therefore, we do not
sustain the rejection of Claims 1-6 and 11-13 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable over Quinquis and Katzman.
Claims 7 and 9
Claims 7 and 9 recite a data scattering system in which
reception processors each comprise reception control means for
selecting some of the data to be received from among all of the
data broadcast by a transmitting processor. The selection is
made in accordance with a predetermined reception count. Prior
to any data transmission, an AND means receives ready signal from
all of the reception processors and outputs a send signal back to
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