Appeal No. 1997-2382
Application 08/287,064
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1, 2, 4 through 12, and 14 through 20, all of
the claims pending in the present application. Claims 3 and
13 have been cancelled.
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for
creating, interpreting and executing an interpretive program
language. Specifically, the present invention eliminates the
transposition of programming language into pseudo code.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A programmable interpreter comprising:
means for receiving a source code command input
stream, said source code command input stream including a
literal source code macroinstruction;
means for directly encoding said literal source code
macroinstruction into a corresponding subroutine address
without performing an intermediate step of extracting an op
code of said macroinstruction,
said encoding means including means for generating
an execution stream for storage of said subroutine address and
2
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