Appeal No. 97-0266
Application No. 08/176,370
(the only other independent claims) require "a match between
the received first destination location designator and a
stored source operand location designator." In other words,
whereas Tran stores the destination indicators and compares
them with a new source indicator, the claims call for storing
the source indicators and comparing them to newly received
destination indicators.
The examiner responds (Answer, page 5) by pointing to
portions of columns 5 and 6 of Tran to show that Tran teaches
"matching information from the output of the execution unit
(destination indicator) with the source indicator stored in
the reservation station for immediate execution by the
functional unit." Within the sections noted by the examiner,
Tran defines source address information as "identif[ying] an
address in register 24 (see FIG. 1) at which information
required for execution of an instruction (such as operand) is
stored" (column 5, lines 55-58) and destination information as
"identif[ying] an address within register file 24 at which
results from execution of an instruction is to be stored after
execution of the
respective instruction" (column 5, lines 59-63). However,
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