The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte FONG PONG, LANCE RUSSELL and TUNG NGUYEN
Appeal No. 2004-0538
Application No. 09/976,495
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, SAADAT and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of claims
1 through 6, which constitute all the claims in the application.
Invention
The invention relates to a multi-processor computer system, which includes a
distributed shared memory, see page 3 of appellants’ specification. The system
includes a cache flushing engine which forces the local cache to write data back to
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