Appeal No. 2001-2610
Application No. 09/052,247
determining if a fetched instruction is an instruction-path-
changing instruction; and
if said fetched instruction is not an instruction-path-
changing instruction, prefetching a next sequential preselected
instruction set if no remaining instructions in a current cache
line are not path-changing instructions, wherein an instruction-
path-changing instruction branches beyond said next sequential
preselected instruction set.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Mahalingaiah et al. [Mahalingaiah] 5,813,045 Sep. 22, 1998
(filed Jul. 24, 1996)
Claims 1, 8-13, 27 and 33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
102(e) as anticipated by Mahalingaiah.
Claims 2-7, 14-26 and 28-32 have been indicated by the
examiner to be directed to allowable subject matter and are no
longer on appeal.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
An anticipatory reference is one which describes all of the
elements of the claimed invention so as to have placed a person
of ordinary skill in the art in possession thereof. In re Spada,
911 F.2d 205, 15 USPQ2d 1655 (Fed. Cir. 1990).
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