Ex parte YAMAMOTO et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1997-4061                                                        
          Application 08/469,498                                                      



                         iii) means for restoring, at a termination of                
                    execution of said one of said plurality of interrupt              
                    processing routines by the processor, the first                   
          control                                                                     
                    data held in the second switching means memory into               
                    the first switching means memory                                  
          wherein said first control data includes a first portion which              
          consists of the read-only memory address of the first bug                   
          portion and a second portion which consists of the patch                    
          memory address of the first plurality of patch instructions,                
          and wherein the second control data includes a first portion                
          which consists of the read-only memory address of the second                
          bug portion and a second portion which consists of the patch                
          memory address of   the second plurality of patch instruc-                  
          tions.                                                                      
                    The references relied on by the Examiner are as                   
          follows:                                                                    
          Fairchild et al. (Fairchild)       4,296,470       Oct. 20,                 
          1981                                                                        
          Clarke                             0,458,559       Nov. 27,                 
          1991                                                                        
          (European Patent Application)                                               


                    Claims 13 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.               
          § 103 as being unpatentable over Clarke and Fairchild.                      






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