Appeal No. 1997-1636 Page 15
Application No. 08/204,996
state of one processor to the other processor on occurrence of
a failure in the first processor, and then resuming
processing, there is no hint or suggestion in Anderson et al.
that this can be applied to more than two processors.”
(Appeal Br. at 10-11.) The examiner replies, “Anderson does
teach transferring the operating state of a processor to a
subsequent processor for processing from the point transfer
(Col. 1 lines 61-65).” (Examiner’s Answer at 8.) She adds,
“It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the
art at the time the invention was made to provide for
transferring the operating state of a processor to a
subsequent processor for processing from the point transfer,
since it was known in the art that it allows for the data
input to be the cycle time of the processor to provide faster
processing of complicated data ....” (Id.) We agree with the
examiner but also find the teaching of Anderson to be
cumulative in view of Lawton.
Claim 6 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: “the operating state of a processor of one layer
is transferred as required to a processor of a subsequent
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