Appeal No. 1999-0485
Application 08/526,781
rounding the output of the shifting operation means when the
arithmetic instruction is indicative of a logical operation
and rounding the output of the shifting operation when the
arithmetic instruction is indicative of an arithmetic
operation. Appellant respectively submits that Toriumi does
not disclose or suggest these limitations as recited in
Appellant’s claim 6.
On pages 22 and 23 of the brief, Appellant argues that
claim 13 recites an apparatus for performing a combined
processing operation on a received data packet which includes
digital data and instruction data. The apparatus is recited
as including a combination, an instruction decoder, an
arithmetic operator, a shifter and a rounding unit. The
rounding unit is recited as rounding the shift data when the
arithmetic operator provides resultant data based on an
arithmetic operation and not for rounding the shift data when
the arithmetic operator provides resultant data based on a
logical operation. Appellant argues that Toriumi does not
disclose these limitations as recited in Appellant’s claim 13.
On page 24 of the brief, Appellant argues that
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