Appeal No. 97-1303
Application 08/160,300
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of conditional data processing operation
comprising the steps of:
setting a condition to either a first state or a second
state;
performing a first arithmetic/logical operation and
storing a first result in a first data register with a first
write priority; and
conditionally moving predetermined data into said first
data register if said condition has said first state with a
second write priority, said second write priority of said
conditional move being higher than said first write priority
of said first arithmetic/logical operation whereby said first
data register stores said predetermined data if said condition
has said first state or said first result of said first
arithmetic/logical operation if said condition does not have
said first state.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Pfeiffer et al. (Pfeiffer) 5,146,592 Sept. 8,
1992
Murakami et al. (Murakami) 5,247,627 Sept. 21,
1993
Kawata 5,274,777 Dec. 28,
1993
(filed Mar. 29,
1991)
Claims 1 through 96 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Kawata as
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