Appeal No. 2001,0712
Application 08/148,887
It is then argued by Appellants that contrary to the 9
Examiner's assertion, Hitchcock's disclosed abstract flow
elements and binding means are not, respectively, the claimed
variable holding means and allocation pattern generation
means. The abstract flow elements of Hitchcock are noted to
be hardware data flow requirements of the intended hardware
design, while the variable holding means of the present
invention stores the software variables which will be
allocated to the system resources.
As to the binding means, Appellants assert that
these means of Hitchcock bind abstract data flow elements onto
hardware elements in a step-by-step fashion, and take a
hardware description and attempt to create an optimum hardware
design. The allocation pattern generation of the invention,
however, generates an allocation pattern for every possible
combination of software variables and computer resources.
Appellants then disagree with the Examiner's10
statement that Chi discloses the remaining claim limitations.
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