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EP About this file: EP0314968

EP0314968 - Overlapped multiple-bit scanning multiplication system with banded partial product matrix [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  29.11.1996
Database last updated on 09.12.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.02.2006Change - lapse in a contracting state
Updated state(s): FR
published on 05.04.2006  [2006/14]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
International Business Machines Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504 / US
[N/P]
Former [1989/19]For all designated states
International Business Machines Corporation
Old Orchard Road
Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Schwarz, Eric Mark
5A Jane Lacey Drive
Endicott New York 13760 / US
02 / Vassiliadis, Stamatis
717 Vestal Road
Vestal New York 13850 / US
[1989/19]
Representative(s)Schäfer, Wolfgang
IBM Deutschland
Informationssysteme GmbH
Patentwesen und Urheberrecht
70548 Stuttgart / DE
[N/P]
Former [1991/29]Schäfer, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing.
IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme GmbH Patentwesen und Urheberrecht
D-70548 Stuttgart / DE
Former [1989/19]Jost, Ottokarl, Dipl.-Ing.
IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme GmbH, Patentwesen und Urheberrecht
D-70548 Stuttgart / DE
Application number, filing date88117226.617.10.1988
[1989/19]
Priority number, dateUS1987011617203.11.1987         Original published format: US 116172
[1989/19]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0314968
Date:10.05.1989
Language:EN
[1989/19]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0314968
Date:08.05.1991
Language:EN
[1991/19]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0314968
Date:24.01.1996
[1996/04]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP19.03.1991
ClassificationIPC:G06F7/52
[1989/19]
CPC:
G06F7/5336 (EP,US); G06F7/49994 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1989/19]
TitleGerman:Überlappendes Mehrbit untersuchendes Multipliziersystem mit einer Bandmatrix von Teilprodukten[1989/19]
English:Overlapped multiple-bit scanning multiplication system with banded partial product matrix[1989/19]
French:Système de multiplication par exploration chevauchée à bits multiples utilisant une matrice de produits partiels à bandes[1989/19]
Examination procedure06.09.1989Examination requested  [1989/44]
17.06.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
08.10.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
20.01.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
28.04.1995Communication of intention to grant the patent
16.06.1995Fee for grant paid
16.06.1995Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)25.10.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1997/03]
Fees paidRenewal fee
25.10.1990Renewal fee patent year 03
13.12.1990Renewal fee patent year 04
22.10.1992Renewal fee patent year 05
21.10.1993Renewal fee patent year 06
21.10.1994Renewal fee patent year 07
24.10.1995Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR24.01.1996
GB17.10.1996
[2006/14]
Former [1997/42]FR21.06.1996
GB17.10.1996
Former [1997/04]FR21.06.1996
Documents cited:Search[A]EP0206762  (ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC [US])
 [XD]  - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS, THE WAVES AND ELECTRONS SECTION (SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTERS), vol. 49, no. 1, January 1961, pages 67-91, New York, US; O.L. MacSORLEY: "High-speed arithmetic in binary computers"
 [YD]  - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 27, no. 11, April 1985, pages 6624-6632, New York, US; "Improved approach to the use of booth's multiplication algorithm"
 [A]  - ELECTRONICS LETTERS, vol. 22, no. 20, September 1986, pages 1061-1062, Stevenage, GB; M. ROORDA: "Method to reduce the sign bit extension in a multiplier that uses the modified booth algorithm"
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