The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THANG M. TRAN
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Appeal No. 1999-1888
Application No. 08/473,504
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 14 and 16 through 26. Claim 15 has
been canceled. On page 17 of the Examiner's Answer, the examiner
indicates that claim 4 is objected to as being dependent upon a
rejected base claim. Accordingly, claims 1 through 3, 5 through
14, and 16 through 26 remain before us on appeal.
Appellant's invention relates to a data address prediction
structure for a superscalar microprocessor. The processor
fetches data associated with a data prediction address into a
data buffer and accesses the data buffer during a decode stage of
an instruction processing pipeline. Thus, an implicit memory
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