Appeal No. 1997-1212
Application 08/017,839
source program into a data processing device, the data
processing device including of [sic] a processor unit
and a data storage;
deciding via the data processing device, based
on the predetermined reference condition, whether a
portion of the source program is determinable as
parallelizable;
prompting, in accordance with an output of the
data processing device, a user for assist information
upon a determination by the deciding step that said
program portion is presently indeterminable as
parallelizable; and
deciding, via the data processing device,
whether said program portion is parallelizable, based
on assist information supplied from the user.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Iwasawa et al. (Iwasawa) 5,151,991 September
29, 1992
(filed October 18,
1988)
Padua, et al. (Padua), Advanced Compiler Optimizations
For Supercomputers, Communications of the ACM,
Volume 29, Number 12, December 1986.
Claims 1-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject
matter which applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Padua and Iwasawa.
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