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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999

Filed:

Nov. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:

Geoffrey Francis Burns, Macungie, PA (US);

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
708525 ; 708209 ; 708531 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for generating a flag simultaneously with production of an operation result by an operational unit. The flag is generated based on data input to the operational unit, and the flag indicates the presence or absence of a condition in the operation result produced by the operational unit.


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