Appeal No. 2001-0513
Application No. 09/096,550
Each of the independent claims in one form or another
recites a retrieval of the components from the non-local memory
at a rate independent of a rate in which the components were
written into the non-local memory. The examiner asserts (Answer,
pages 4-5) that Artieri teaches in column 4, lines 14-20 and
column 7, lines 17-21 that "the packet processing module
retrieves the components from the non-local memory at a rate
independent of a rate in which the components were written into
the non-local memory." The cited portions of Artieri are as
follows:
According to an embodiment of the invention, the
system includes a variable length decoder (VLD) forming
the master processing element; a run-level decoder
(RLD) forming a first element of the pipeline circuit
and receiving through the parameter bus the packets
processed by the VLD . . .
and
A picture header includes, as mentioned above, a
picture type parameter and information on the use of
the movement compensation vectors. These parameters
are used by the VLD circuit itself to decode the
vectors and data of the macro-blocks.
We find nothing in either of the two passages that would
suggest retrieving components from the non-local memory at a rate
independent of a rate in which the components were written into
the non-local memory, as claimed. The examiner further explains
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