Appeal No. 2002-0278
Application 08/797,674
there are sources available on ring 116 to handle the delivery of
this request. See page 7 of Appellants’ specification. A
request to ring 116 will use request activation queue 206. See
page 8 of Appellants’ specification. By using the request
activation queue 206 and the response activation queue 210, the
system is allowed to handle many outstanding requests and
responses at the same time both cam 205 and table 204 can handle
different requests. See pages 9 and 10 of Appellants’
specification.
Independent claim 1 is representative of Appellants’ claimed
invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A system controller for managing a plurality of
responses and a plurality of requests between interconnection
rings and at least one memory access controller, the system
controller comprising:
a request activation queue for storing request information
until the rings are accessible; and
a response activation queue for storing response information
until the memory access controller is accessible;
wherein the request information is used to construct request
data packets; and
the response information is used to construct response data
packets.
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