Appeal No. 1997-2161
Application 08/172,170
Before THOMAS, FLEMING and FRAHM, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 13, all the claims pending in the
present application.
The invention relates to a data processor which can
execute a program at a high speed by enabling a number of
registers to be used.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A data processor comprising:
a plurality of register queues each comprised of
physical registers, each register queue having a queue number
unique in the data processor and each physical register having
a physical number unique in the data processor; and
a physical register number forming means, connected
to said plurality of register queues, for converting a logical
register number designated in an instruction into a physical
register number, said logical register number indicating a
queue number, the physical register having the physical regis-
ter number belonging to the register queue having the logical
register number, and for transferring said physical register
number to said plurality of register queues, the physical
2
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