The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte HOICHI CHEONG and HUNG QUI LE
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Appeal No. 2003-0902
Application No. 09/332,413
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ON BRIEF
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Before SMITH, FLEMING, and MCDONALD, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MCDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, and 18-20. Claims 8, 17, and 21
have been indicated as allowable.
Invention
Appellants' invention relates to a system and method that
groups instructions that are being dispatched for execution in a
manner that enables the executing processor to restore to an
operating state associated with the instruction group whenever an
interruption occurs during processing of the particular
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