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`REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE
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`Claims 1,4-12, and 15-23 are allowable over the prior art ofrecord.
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`The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance:
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`As per independent claims 1, 11, and 17, the prior art of record does not teach or suggest,
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`either alone or in combination, the every limitation of each claim. Specifically the prior art of
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`record does not teach in combination a reconfigurable processor with a data prefetch unit only
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`fetching computational data required by an algorithm in addition to a first memory and the
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`prefetch unit being configurable to conform to the requirements (needs) of a particular algorithm
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`where the data prefetch unit is configured to match fom1at and location of the in the second
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`memory ( claim 1 ). Further regarding claims 11 and 17, the prior art of record does not teach the
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`prefetch unit operating independent and in parallel with the logic blocks that are using
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`computational data with the data prefetch unit only transferring data necessary for computations.
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`Further regarding claim 17, the prior art of record does not specifically teach a computation unit,
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`prefetch unit, and data access unit all being configurable in order to conform to the needs of an
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`algorithm implemented on the computational unit.
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`Gibson et al. (U.S. Patent No. 6,507,898) teaches a reconfigurable cache controller but
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`does not teach each limitation of the independent claims of Applicant.
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`Howard et al. (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2005/0044327) teaches a
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`reconfigurable processor that may be reconfigured based on the algorithm being run (~52 and
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`~90).
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`Notice of References Cited
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`Application/Control No.
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`10/869,200
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`Examiner
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`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`02-2005
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`Howard et al.
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`Application/Control No.
`10/869,200
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`Examiner
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`67
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`19
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`79
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`51
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`54
`84
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`25
`55
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`56
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`117
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`27
`57
`148
`118
`58
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`59
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