Appeal No. 2003-0351
Application 09/436,421
amendment after final rejection was filed on June 17, 2002 and
was entered by the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for dynamically selecting the order in which requested
data is transferred from a cache memory to a data processor.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A data processing system comprising:
a processor unit;
a cache;
means for coupling said cache to said processor unit to
effectuate data transfer;
means for dynamically selecting an order in which to
transmit said data from a cache line of said cache, from among
several available orders in which said data may be transmitted;
means for encoding the selected order in a selected order
bit set; and
means for issuing to said coupling means said selected order
bit set ahead of said data, wherein said selected order bit set
alerts said processor unit of said selected order and said data
is transmitted in said selected order.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Hunt 5,781,923 July 14, 1998
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