Appeal No. 97-1204
Application No. 08/453,948
(filed May 24,
1989)
Claims 9 through 16, 24 and 25 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. 103 as unpatentable over Jardine in view of Pomerene.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We reverse.
The examiner applies Jardine to the instant claims,
asserting that Jardine discloses everything but the details
about storing the sequence of instructions and the compounding
information in the cache memory. The examiner then relies on
Pomerene for an instruction compounding unit located between
the main memory and the cache, concluding that it would have
been obvious, within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 103, to combine
the teachings as it would have
allowed the Jardine’s teachings to pre-compound
(i.e. pre-decode) the instructions while
transferring instructions from the main memory (i.e.
slower memory) to the cache memory (i.e. faster
memory), and store the pre-compounded instructions
and the compounding information in the cache memory
[answer-pages 5-6].
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