Appeal No. 97-1204
Application No. 08/453,948
claims. Independent claims 9 and 24 make it clear that this
compounding information is stored in the cache along with the
instructions.
Thus, Jardine, alone, is clearly insufficient to cause
the instant claims to be unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. 103.
While the rejection is based on a combination of references,
we do not find Pomerene to remedy the deficiencies of Jardine,
as noted supra.
The basic error in the application of Pomerene to the
instant claims, as pointed out by appellants, is that Pomerene
is not directed to the execution of two or more instructions
or to a method for processing instructions for parallel
execution. Rather, Pomerene is concerned with the partial
decoding of instructions stored in a cache from the main
memory so that if and when said instruction(s) is/are called
from the cache by the processor, time is saved by the
processor not having to decode the instructions from scratch,
since the instructions are already partially decoded prior to
storage in the cache.
The examiner has equated this "partial-decoding" of
instructions by Pomerene to the claimed "compounding
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