Appeal No. 96-2692
Application 08/310,892
Before THOMAS, BARRETT and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1, 7 and 15, all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claims 2 through 6, 8 through 14, 16 and
17 have been canceled.
The invention is directed to a method for broadcast-
ing a data set distributed over various processors on a multi-
processor ring so that every processor will contain the com-
plete data set.
The independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of redistributing a data set having
data subsets distributed in a ring of processors, the ring of
processors being interconnected with bi-directional links such
that each processor in the ring is connected for data trans-
mission to neighboring processors in both directions around
the ring, the bi-directional links having an interconnection
bandwidth, said method comprising the steps of:
2
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