Appeal No. 95-4736
Application 08/084,801
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Dube et al. (Dube) 4,654,817 Mar. 31, 1987
Littleton 5,109,504 Apr. 28, 1992
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Littleton in
view of Dube.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellants with regard to the propriety of
this rejection are set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 6) and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 14) and the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 13).
Appellants’ Invention
Appellants’ invention relates to audio processors such as music synthesizers, real time
processors in other fields and, in general, any computer system which executes a set of programs
and has a need to replace programs in the set during run time. In Figure 2, which shows a
microprocessor designed for use with a music synthesizer, a set of programs is stored in a
microcode store 213. Instructions are supplied through pre-fetch device 214 to a decoder 550
which controls execution of the instructions by the processor. When one program in the set of
programs stored in the microcode store 213 needs to be replaced, a command is supplied through
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