Appeal No. 1998-1113
Application 08/533,878
load instruction and preventing the CPU from executing later
load instructions until execution of the ordered load
instruction is completed. All earlier load instructions need
not be executed before the execution of the ordered load
instruction is complete. Claim 4 is directed to a method of
ordering store operations. The method includes steps of
detecting an ordered store instruction and preventing the CPU
from executing the ordered store instruction until all earlier
store instructions have been completely executed. A later
store instruction can be executed before execution of the
ordered store instruction is completed. Earlier or later store
instructions are relative to the ordered
store instruction. Finally, claim 7 makes use of an ordered
store instruction or an ordered load instruction for executing
instructions from a stream of instructions.
The Examiner has failed to set forth a prima facie case.
It is the burden of the Examiner to establish why one having
ordinary skill in the art would have been led to the claimed
invention by the express teachings or suggestions found in the
prior art, or by implications contained in such teachings or
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