Appeal No. 96-1621
Application No. 08/194,899
in the former, predecode information for three instructions is
stored with only two of the instructions in a double word, it
is our view that appellants’ argument is not commensurate in
scope with the instant invention, as claimed. The instant
claims do not specify that the predecode information for three
instructions is stored with only two of the instructions in a
double word.
Accordingly, predecode information for three instructions
may be stored with all three instructions and still be
considered to be stored in two of the instructions. Reference
to Figure 3 and the corresponding disclosure of Blaner appears
to indicate that three consecutive instructions are processed
by a compound analyzer, some instructions overlapping between
compound analyzers, and that each instruction is given a one-
bit tag to determine whether that instruction may be bundled
with another instruction. The tag may be considered, broadly,
as predecode information and while each instruction in Blaner
is given a tag, or predecode information, rather than the
predecode information being stored with only two out of three
instructions, as claimed, we do not view the claims as
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