Appeal No. 2006-0537 Page 7
Application No. 09/753,766
branch instructions as specifically discussed in a brief paragraph bridging
columns 4 and 5 of Parady as well. As to Bondi, the pipeline nature of Bondi’s
invention corresponds to the pipeline processors 32 through 46 of Parady’s
Figure 1 which are depicted as element 41 in Figure 3 and the various execution
units in Figures 5 and 6. Correspondingly, Bondi’s instruction pipeline operates
on program thread information in the same manner that Parady’s processors do.
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1
through 19 on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.
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