Appeal No. 96-3697
Serial No. 08/255,304
local program portion of said program to enable use of said
tools to effect a reassignment of data items as among storage
locations within said processing elements to, in turn, effect
a rearrangement of the address bits in address bit positions
in the local portion of the intermediate arrangement to the
final arrangement.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Robinson et al. (Robinson) 5,237,691 Aug. 17,
1993
(filed Aug. 1, 1990)
“Optimal Matrix Transposition and Bit Reversal on Hypercubes:
All-to-All Personalized Communication,” Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing, 1991 (Edelman).
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Edelman in view of Robinson.
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellants with regard to the propriety of the rejection are
set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 21) and the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 30) and the appellants’ brief
(Paper No. 29).
Appellants’ Invention
The invention is an arrangement for generating a
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