Appeal No. 2002-2330
Application No. 09/116,260 Page 8
We find from the disclosure of Hagqvist that when a
predetermined address location is reached, the processor branches
to an auxiliary memory, and when the data is read out of the
auxiliary memory, the processor returns to the main memory to
continue executing the main program. Accordingly, we find that
Hagqvist does not disclose a delayed function having a field for
specifying a delay value, as advanced by the examiner.
Turning to Morrison, we find that Morrison is directed to
parallel processing low level instructions having natural
concurrences (col. 1, lines 11-15). The invention is directed to
a non-Von Neumann type computer system that is capable of using
multiple-instruction, multiple data (MIMD) data streams in single
context or multiple context (col. 1, lines 36-40). Intelligence
is added to the instruction stream at essentially the object code
level. The added intelligence can include a logical processor
number and an instruction firing time to provide time-driven
decentralized control (col. 4, lines 9-19). TOLL software 110
provides synchronization for the system by assigning appropriate
firing times to each object code instruction in the output
instruction stream (col. 7, line 67 through col. 8, line 2, and
col. 12, line 40-42). The software, according to the invention,
maps the object code program onto the hardware of the system so
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