Appeal No. 2005-2273 Page 12
Application No. 10/319,026
Furthermore, we find that the reference seeks to increase "[t]he speed at which data
can be transferred between a computer system's processor and memory [,which] is
sometimes referred to as its memory bandwidth." Col. 1, ll. 33-35.
We also find that Sargent discloses the inclusion of an "instruction-fetch queue"
in a processor. P. 218 (copy attached). "Its purpose is to speed up program
execution." Id. Because Karp seeks to speed operations, and Sargent teaches a
queue to speed operations, we find that a person having ordinary skill in the art to which
the subject matter pertains would have been motivated to employ a queue for storing
vector instructions to speed up program execution. We conclude that such a
combination of teachings would have made claim 21 obvious to a person having
ordinary skill in the art to which the subject matter pertains.
In an ex parte appeal, "the Board is basically a board of review — we review . . .
rejections made by patent examiners." Gambogi, 62 USPQ2d at 1211. Accordingly, we
leave any further determination of the obviousness of claims 22-26 in view of Karp and
Sargent to the examiner and the appellant.
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