Patent ID: 7397798

Claim:
A method in a pipeline processing stage ( 10 b ) in a processing means ( 3 ), comprising the steps of: receiving, in parallel, a first block from a first register ( 101 ) and a first execution parameter associated with the first block from a second register ( 102 ), the first execution parameter having a first value; inspecting a set of data being at least a part of the first block; and determining that the set of data differs from a predetermined condition, and upon determining that the set of data differs from the predetermined condition, i) storing a second execution parameter in a third register ( 103 ) and ii) storing a third execution parameter in the second register ( 102 ), wherein the second execution parameter has a second value and is associated with the first block during a next pipeline processing stage ( 10 c ) for the first block and the third execution parameter has the first value and will be associated with a second block, which is to be received in the pipeline processing stage after the first block has been forwarded to the next pipeline processing stage ( 10 c ).