Appeal No. 94-3596
Application No. 07/689,655
central processing units including;
execution apparatus for processing data signal groups in
said each central processing unit in response to control signals
resulting from decoding of instruction signal groups, wherein
said source central processing unit includes condition apparatus
for generating a command signal group in response to and
determined by a preestablished condition in said source central
processing unit, said command signal group being applied to said
system bus along with a target central processing unit address
signal group,
said target central processing unit including an interface
means for identifying said target processing unit address signal
group and for storing said command signal group applied to said
system bus having said target processing unit address signal
group;
said target central processing unit including decode logic
coupled to at least one preselected component of said second
central processing unit execution apparatus, said decode logic
decoding said stored command signal group, said decode logic
applying control signals resulting from said decoding to said
preselected component of said target central processing unit
thereby executing said command signal group without software
intervention, wherein storing said command signal group in said
target central processing unit suspends execution by said
execution apparatus of said target central processing unit of a
currently executing instruction signal group sequence upon
completion of a currently executing instruction signal group,
wherein said control signals are applied to said preselected
component upon completion of execution of said currently
executing instruction signal group.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Gunter et al. (Gunter) 4,349,873 Sep. 14, 1982
Vrielink et al. (Vrielink) 4,482,954 Nov. 13, 1984
Vince 4,562,539 Dec. 31, 1985
Bomba et al. (Bomba) 4,648,030 Mar. 3, 1987
(filed Sep. 22, 1983)
Claims 1, 2, 4, 6 through 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 20 stand
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