Appeal No. 96-0908
Application 08/160,118
store to memory in response to the CONDITIONAL-STORE
instruction.
Appellants argue (Br6):
Third, claims 1 and 13 specifically recite that the
second data register is "associated with said first data
register." Note the [sic] both claims 1 and 13 make
clear that the first and second data registers are within
the equivalent of the general register files 34 of
Diefendorff et al. Registers 57 and 58 of Diefendorff et
al are not registers in general register files 34 nor are
they "associated" with each other in the sense claimed.
Similar arguments are made with respect to the rejection over
Kawata (Br15-16).
These arguments are not commensurate in scope with the
claims. Claims 1 and 13 do not recite where the data
registers are located. However, if the claims did recite that
they were in the general register files, Auslander suggests
that the first and second source operands are retrieved from
registers 52 and 54 in the general register file 34 and sent
to the graphics adder unit 30 (col. 7, line 66, to col. 8,
line 14). Kawata also teaches that the operands can be read
from general registers 10 (figure 1), which suggests the
obviousness of such a limitation. Claims 1 and 13 do not
define what is meant by "associated with." "Associated with"
can be broadly interpreted as associated in the sense that the
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