Appeal No. 96-0908
Application 08/160,118
claimed." Similarly, appellants argue in the Kawata rejection
(Br14): "First, both Kawata and Diefendorff et al teach
storing resultant data in a general register file rather than
an addressed location in memory as claimed."
As previously discussed, Diefendorff discloses an
alternative embodiment in which a CONDITIONAL-STORE
instruction is executed by the load/store units 25 to directly
use the mask value to transfer each byte in the result operand
from the register file 34 to memory 50, instead of storing the
result operand in a register and then using a STORE
instruction. Since the result operand is taken from one of
two operand registers, Diefendorff's CONDITIONAL-STORE
instruction is a two register conditional store instruction as
claimed. Even if the result operand were stored first in
register 59 in the general register file 34, then stored to
memory, claim 1 does not exclude an intermediate storage as
part of the action produced by the CONDITIONAL-STORE
instruction. Appellants do not address the CONDITIONAL-STORE
teaching of Diefendorff even though they quote from and argue
the teachings at column 11, lines 15-17 of Diefendorff (Br6
and Br14), which is in the preceding paragraph.
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