Appeal No. 1996-3193
Application 08/160,112
a prima facie case of obviousness. The rejection of claim 6
and dependent claims 7 and 8 is reversed.
Group V - Claims 9-11
Group VI - Claim 12
Claim 9 contains limitations about storing the carry
output similar to claim 5 except that it more specifically
recites "storing any carry output . . . in corresponding
locations of a set of more significant bits of said multiple
flags register" and "storing any carry output . . . in
corresponding locations of said set of least significant bits
of said multiple flags register" before "adding said number of
carry outputs to a running sum of carry outputs," whereas
claim 5 only recites storing any carry output and adding the
carry output to a running sum of carry outputs. Claim 9 also
contains limitations similar to those addressed in connection
with claim 6 except that it recites performing the plurality
of differences operation twice and, thus, it recites a "first"
and a "second" plurality of differences. Therefore, claim 9
is narrower than claim 5 in regard to the carry output
limitations and is narrower than claim 6 in regard to the
plurality of differences and the addition of the running sums
than claim 6. For the reasons stated in connection with the
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