Appeal No. 96-1233
Application 08/259,368
another device and not a program means executing on the
computer processor. Claim 17, however, only requires that a
control program means executes on the computer processor. It
does not require that the elements of the measuring means also
be located there. Blasciak clearly has a control program
means which executes on his computer processor. Appellants
also argue that Blasciak does not generate event signals as
intended in their invention. Blasciak clearly generates
signals indicative of when an event to be measured starts and
when the event ends. Blasciak monitors these start-stop event
pairs for evaluation [note columns 15-16]. It is our view
that the measurement of these start-stop pairs in Blasciak
demonstrates that these start-stop pairs must be generated in
Blasciak within the meaning of the language broadly used in
claim 17. Appellants argue that Blasciak does not teach the
event filter means of claim 17. Blasciak discloses, however,
that all occurrences of an event are stored as well as a
subset of the events which meet a limiting condition [note
Figure 14 and counters 22, 23 and 26]. The data stored in the
qualified counters of Blasciak represent a filtered subset of
data as recited in claim 17. Appellants argue that the event
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