Appeal No. 1998-2661
Application 08/633,267
recite the claimed physical rename registers. Appellants'
background information provided at pages 1 through 3 of the
specification as filed indicates that the so-called rename
registers store instruction results prior to their commitment
to the architected registers. The specification also
indicates at lines 15 and 16 of page 8 that the concept of
register renaming was well-known in the art and such registers
were considered to be temporary storage registers. The notion
of the use of the rename registers for temporary storage is
also conveyed to the artisan at pages
8-9 and 8-10 of the PowerPC603 manual attached to the reply
brief. Additionally, the discussion of rename registers at
column 2, lines 29 through 55 of Kau itself confirms this
functional usage.
The examiner's views as to the teaching value of Kau
itself is not consistent with this view normally taken by the
artisan. In the context of Kau's teachings and the examiner
reliance upon Figure 3, it is the intermediate storage buffers
60 that perform the function of an intermediate storage
comparable to the rename registers of the claims on appeal
rather than the general purpose registers 62 as asserted by
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