Appeal No. 1999-2398
Application No. 08/825,427
that claims 53 through 55 are objected to as being dependent
upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if
rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations
of the base claim and any intervening claims, and that claims
56 through 58, 67 and 68 are allowed. Accordingly, claims 1
through 5, 7 through 11, 13 through 28, 30 through 34, 36
through 46, 48 through 52 and 59 through 66 remain before us
on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a processor for
executing at least one store instruction in a computer system.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for performing a store operation in a
computer system comprising the steps of:
creating a first operation and a second operation in
response to the store operation, wherein the first
operation includes an address calculation for the store
operation and the second operation includes a data
calculation for the store operation;
executing the first operation and the second
operation as individual instruction entities, wherein the
time during which the first operation is executed is
independent of the time during which the second operation
is executed; and
recombining the first operation and the second
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