Appeal No. 96-0908
Application 08/160,118
conditional store operation of Diefendorff based on a "greater
than" condition to other conditions such as "carry,"
"overflow," and "zero."
Appellants argue that "Auslander et al also fails to
teach or suggest any usefulness of employing a status bit
other than that disclosed in Diefendorff et al" (Br8,
lines 11-13; Br9, lines 2-4 and lines 28-30). We note that
claims 4-6 and 16-18 do not recite using the status bit as the
status bit for the conditional store, but only require that a
status bit be set. Auslander teaches all of the disclosed
status bits.
Appellants argue that "[t]he only status bit mentioned in
Kawata is a sign status bit" (Br17). We agree that Kawata
discloses that the ALU set a sign bit S in the conditional
code register (col. 4, lines 52-57) as the only status bit.
The examiner does not address this deficiency in Kawata.
However, since the status bits were conventional in the prior
art, Diefendorff alone is sufficient to meet these claims.
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