Appeal 2007-2219
Application 10/035,587
Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish Lynch
suggests “a plurality of operands each of which having encoded status flag
information” and a result assembler that “assembles an accumulated result
that represents a value and combines the encoded status flag information
from each of the plurality of operands” as required by claim 1?
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
1. The prior art Huang patent describes that “If the generation of
the result produces one of a predetermined set of special operands, a tag
generator also generates a tag having a predetermined tag value
corresponding to the produced special operand.” (Col. 5, ll. 43-46).
2. The prior art Huang patent describes that “each of the registers
116 and 118 has an operand value storage portion 116-1 and 118-1 and a tag
value storage portion 116-2 and 118-2.” (Col. 6, l. 66 through col. 7, l. 2).
3. The prior art Lynch patent describes that the “FPU [floating
point unit] core uses the tag value associated with an operand to determine
whether the operand is a special floating point number.” (Col. 16, ll. 62-65).
4. “Assembles” is defined as “fits or joins together the parts of.”1
5. “Having” is defined as “containing as a constituent part.”2
1 The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1982, p. 134.
2 Id. at p. 597.
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