Appeal No. 2003-0902
Application No. 09/332,413
selectively dispatching instructions from said group of
instructions up to and including said interruptible instruction
of said selected type, in response to finding an interruptible
instruction of said selected type in said group of N fetched
instructions, wherein if an instruction group contains an
interruptible instruction of a selected type, only one
interruptible instruction of said selected type is included in
said instruction group;
recording a state for the processor associated with a
dispatchd instruction group; and
restoring said processor to said recorded state associated
with said dispatched instruction group containing said
interruptible instruction of said selected type causing an
interrupt, in response to said interrupt from one of said
interruptible insructions of said selected type.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Peleg et al (Peleg) 5,381,533 Jan. 10, 1995
Shen et al (Shen) 5,649,136 Jul. 15, 1997
Blandy et al (Blandy) 5,940,618 Aug. 17, 1999
Rejections At Issue
Claims 5, 6, 14, 15, and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being obvious over the combination of Shen and Peleg.
Claims 3, 9, 12, 18 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being obvious over the combination of Shen and Peleg and
Blandy.
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