Appeal No. 1997-4061
Application 08/469,498
column 9, line 59. The Examiner argues that it would have
been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to modify the
Clarke patch system to use the Fairchild system of handling
interrupt routines so that a moving means for storing the
first control data from the first switching means memory into
the second switching means memory and restoring the means for
restoring the first control data back into the first switching
means memory is accomplished.
Appellants argue on pages 5 through 7 of the brief
that incorporating the Fairchild teaching into the Clarke
system
would not yield Appellants' claimed invention. In particular,
Appellants argue that Appellants' claim 13 recites "control
data" and this is not the same as what is held in Fairchild's
instruction link register.
We note that Appellants' claim 13 recites "means for
moving, during execution of one of said plurality of interrupt
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