Appeal No. 1997-1009
Application 08/033,731
contained in the last subset (Family 206) selected in the
activation table (405 or 705) associated with the faulty task.
The reference and stated ground of rejection
The sole reference named in the rejection is:
Cobb et al. (Cobb) 5,119,377 June 2,
1992
Claims 1-11 stand rejected under § 103 for obviousness
over Cobb.
The merits of the rejection
Cobb, which is described at pages 5-7 of the "Background
Art" portion of appellants' specification, employs table to
indicate which data to retrieve in response to detection of an
error:
The EDDC [Early Detection Data Capture] process
requires construction of a table which will be
referred to as the Application Data Table (ADT).
Its entries contain detailed information about the
problem program and are selected by the error
detection code as parameters on the call to the EDDC
process. The EDDC process uses this table
information to generate a dump of specific program
storage areas, to create an entry in a software
error log and to build a software generic alert.
This table is the backbone of the EDDC process. It
is a predefined table that provides the process with
all the information required to provide useful and
meaningful diagnostic data outputs. [Col. 4, lines
21-32.]
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