Appeal No. 96-3697
Serial No. 08/255,304
transpose (page 1, col. 1) and before its arrival at the final
destination. The system for generating a program correlates
to the algorithm. The examiner asserts that Robinson
discloses a system for generating a program for data
reassignment (col. 7, line 44, et seq.) and that it would have
been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art at the time
the invention was made to incorporate Robinson’s program
generation system into the Edelman system because Robinson’s
program generation would allow for data reassignment among
processing elements in the Edelman system.
In their brief, appellants argue that Edelman does
not teach or suggest the invention recited in claim 1. It is
argued that the reference merely discloses a tool, identified
as “All-to-All Personalized Communication”, which may be
called by a program that would be generated by the system in
claim 1 and that the reference does not disclose a system for
generating such a program. It is further argued that Edelman
discloses a tool for rearranging address bits as between a
global address portion and a local address portion but not for
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