Appeal No. 96-4088
Application 08/317,411
Before BARRETT, FLEMING and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 8, all the claims pending in the
present application.
The invention relates to array processing systems
which incorporate a large number of processors that are inter-
connected in a regular connection structure and in which all
processors receive the same instruction from a common control
structure. In particular, the invention relates to a process-
ing array where each of the processing elements includes a
parity generating circuit for generating a parity bit for an
outgoing message transmitted to another processing element,
and it also includes a parity check circuit for checking
parity of an incoming message that is received by that pro-
cessing element. The parity checking and parity generating
circuits are separate from each other and enable the process-
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