Appeal No. 2006-1450
Application No. 09/933,786
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus comprising:
a shift post processor;
a shifter to shift an operand according to an offset
parameter, generating a shifted operand; and
a register coupled to the shift post processor capable
of transferring a shift carry operand stored in the register to
the shift post processor, and coupled to the shifter to store the
shifted operand after any transfer of the shift carry operand;
wherein the shift post processor is coupled to the
shifter and the register to process the shifted operand to
generate an output based on at least a control signal and a mask
field, and
wherein the shift post processor comprises a decoder to
decode the offset parameter into the mask field, the mask field
having a plurality of mask bits, each of the mask bits
corresponding to a bit position of the shifted operand.
References
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Groves 5,222,225 Jun. 22, 1993
Methvin et al.(Methvin) 4,896,133 Jan. 23, 1990
Prioste 4,149,263 Apr. 10, 1979
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