Appeal No. 97-0266
Application No. 08/176,370
for immediate execution, even though Tran does not use the
term "dispatch" in that particular context. Appellants focus
only on the particular language used. Nowhere on pages 7-9 of
the Brief do appellants discuss whether the instructions in
Tran are sent from the reservation station (where they are
queued after all dependencies are reconciled (column 2, lines
66-68)) to the execution units for immediate execution, as in
appellants' invention. Accordingly, we cannot reverse the
rejection based on the different application of the term
"dispatch."
On the other hand, for the second argument that pertains
to all of the claims, appellants state (Brief, page 9) that
[t]he Tran system includes a compare-hit circuit
(Figure 2) for generating a compare-hit signal in
response to a match of a respective source indicator
in the next-to-be-dispatched (e.g., issued)
instruction with the destination indicator of an
earlier stored instruction within the storage device
(ROB 22). (underlining in original)
Claim 1, though, requires a comparison between "stored source
operand location designators" and a "received first
destination location designator." Similarly, claims 20 and 35
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