Appeal No. 2003-1057
Application No. 09/138,380
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a data received prior to a coherency response
window, for a snoopy bus. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method of accelerating data retrieval, comprising:
initiating a bus operation requesting data;
receiving the requested data before a defined period for response
to the bus operation has elapsed, wherein a null response to the bus
operation is implicit in receipt of the requested data prior to elapse of the
defined period; and
utilizing the [sic, requested]1 data prior to receiving a response
during the defined period for response.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Allen et al. (Allen) 5,745,698 Apr. 28, 1998
Boyd et al. (Boyd) 5,895,487 Apr. 20, 1999
(filed Nov. 13, 1996)
Arimilli et al. (Arimilli) 6,055,608 Apr. 25, 2000
(filed April 14, 1997)
Claims 1-17, 19, and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Arimilli in view of Allen. Claim 18 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C.
1We note that “requested” is present in the amendment (Paper No. 11), filed
Sept. 23, 2003, which was entered, but was also present in the prior amendment (Paper
No. 7), filed July 2, 2002, which was denied entry. From the examiner’s and appellants’
arguments, it appears that the amendment was not considered as being entered.
Clarification of the status is needed.
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