Appeal No. 96-4088
Application 08/317,411
stations 1, 2 and 3 coupled to each other in a loop. Station
1 can transmit data to station 2. Station 2 can transmit data
to station 3 and station 3 can transmit data back to station
1. Thus, Sze fails to disclose Appellant's claimed
bidirectional interconnection network disposed to directly
connect all the adjacent neighboring processing elements for
each of the plurality of processing elements for carrying data
messages between any of the adjacent processing elements in a
processing array. In column 4, lines 35-67, Chin discloses a
data transmission between a pair of data interchange units 12
and 14 which exchange the data on a high-speed, bidirectional
data bus 16 extended across the interface. However, Chin
fails to disclose a processing array comprising a plurality of
processing elements and a bidirectional interconnection
network disposed to directly connect all of the adjacent
neighboring processing elements for each of the plurality of
processing for carrying out data messages between any of the
adjacent neighboring processing elements as recited in
Appellant's claim 1.
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