Appeal No. 96-4184
Application No. 08/159,346
In claims . . . 65, 66 . . . the plurality of data
registers are connected in one loop and the normal
read and write operations include plural bits within
the single loop. Meltzer states at column 8, lines
54 to 59:
"The shift register loops on the pages of
the file are rotated synchronously, in the
direction shown by the arrows, both with
respect to loops within a page an [sic,
and] with respect to loops in different
pages so that all bits constituting Bytes K
in Pages 1-N appear at read/write ports 21,
22, 23, . . . and 2N at the same time."
This portion of Meltzer clearly teaches plural
loops. In addition, this portion of Meltzer further
teaches that the read/write operations occur
simultaneously in all the loops. Thus Meltzer
cannot write to or read from plural bits of data
within a single loop as required by the recitations
of claims . . . 65, 66 . . . .
Meltzer clearly states (column 8, lines 39 through 46)
that each of the Loops 1 through M is configured as a single
shift register loop (Figure 1), with each loop having 4,096
bit storage positions (i.e., Bit 0 to Bit 4,095). We agree
with appellant that Meltzer discloses "plural loops" of shift
registers, and not "a loop" of registers as claimed. The
plurality of shift register loops in Meltzer are connected in
parallel for reading or writing of an M-bit byte, and all of
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