Appeal No. 96-3200 Page 7
Application No. 08/337,196
see any teaching within Lee that remedies the deficiency of
Watson with regard to a predetermined plurality of orders
wherein a user can designate the order in which each of a
plurality of program counters is to be selected by a selecting
means.
Lee does disclose, at column 5, lines 12-17,
In one embodiment of the present invention, a
plurality of schedules are available for various sets
of tasks implemented by a plurality of processors.
Each time the processors receive their programs, a
transaction schedule associated with the particular
set of programs is loaded into the controller.
Accordingly, it would appear that Lee does indicate some
kind of a “plurality of orders,” each of which may be selected,
dependent upon a set of tasks to be implemented. However,
since Lee is short on details as to how the “plurality of
schedules” is implemented, other than to say that a
“transaction schedule associated with the particular set of
programs is loaded into the controller,” it would appear
speculative to make the determination that Lee does, indeed,
suggest the instant claimed
means for sequentially selecting each of said
plurality of program counters, said selecting means
having a plurality of independent storing means for
storing information indicating a plurality of orders
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