Appeal No. 96-3200 Page 4
Application No. 08/337,196
(column 18, lines 25-49), means for selecting one of the
program counters (column 19, line 35-column 20, line 28), an
ALU (400), means for transferring (column 2, lines 1-14; Figure
13) and means for storing the information indicating the order
(431n, 431m). The examiner admits that Watson lacks an express
teaching for storing a plurality of orders, although it is
contended that Watson does teach a register in which the
ordering of the schedule is alterable by the ALU and the
allocation of the time interval is determined by the code set
in the register. The examiner then relies on Lee for a
teaching of a plurality of schedules available for various
tasks and combines this teaching with Watson, stating that it
would have been obvious “to modify the teaching of
Watson...with that of Lee...because it would improve the
efficiency of the system by allowing for predetermined
optimization of the schedule for given task [sic]” [answer-page
5].
The instant claimed invention calls for a single
microprocessor to simultaneously process a plurality of
programs. Watson, on the other hand, discloses a plurality of
processors which share an ALU. A sequence control 418 in
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