Appeal No. 2003-0376
Application 09/364,281
improved cache system and not to the assignment of data streams
to hardware partitions [brief, pages 5-9].
The examiner responds that he defines hashing as taking
an address and mapping it to a numerical value by a
transformation known as a hashing function. The examiner asserts
that Eberhard was used to show that it was “well known in the art
to hash addresses” and that Walter teaches assigning tasks to
nodes. The examiner asserts that hashing is used to assign tasks
to the nodes in Walter. The examiner also asserts that a hashing
circuit included in the processor would be “inherent” in the
combined system. The examiner responds that hashing is used to
assign tasks to the nodes because of the use of addresses in
Walter. The examiner also asserts that a hash selection circuit
is “inherent” to a hashing circuit. The examiner notes that it
is “inherent” to the system of Walter to use addresses to assign
active tasks and that these addresses are hashed [answer, pages
3-9].
Appellants respond that the combination of Walter and
Eberhard fails to teach a hashing circuit that assigns said
plurality of data streams to said plurality of hardware
partitions based upon an address hash of addresses associated
with instructions within said plurality of data streams as
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