Appeal No. 96-3697
Serial No. 08/255,304
rearranging address bits within the global address portion or
the local address portion.
Appellants argue that Robinson does not teach or
suggest the invention recited in claim 1. The contention is
made that there is no suggestion in Robinson that dataform
modules generate programs in response to an initial address
bit ordering and a final address bit ordering to enable use of
one or more tools to perform a data reassignment among
processing elements and storage locations to effect a
rearrangement of address bits. Appellants urge that Robinson’s
system does not automatically generate a program using a
selected set of tools for effecting the reassignment of data
items to effect a selected rearrangement of data bits.
Lastly, appellants argue that the combination of
Edelman and Robinson fails to teach or suggest the global and
local address portions recited in claim 1.
In response to appellants’ arguments, the examiner
asserts appellants’ rearrangement of address bits is
functionally equivalent to the swapping of addresses as
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