Appeal No. 1999-0288
Application No. 08/538,071 Page 2
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 6,
which is reproduced as follows:
6. A method for providing a match on a selected event in
performance monitoring of a processing system, the processing
system including at least one performance monitor counter (PMC),
the method comprising the steps of:
(a) initializing the at least one PMC; and
(b) controlling counting in the at least one PMC based upon
the nth occurrence of a match to a specified address, where n is
greater or equal to one, the match being based upon the specified
address being associated with a specific process identified by a
bit in a machine state register.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Wibecan 5,537,541 Jul. 16, 1996
(filed Aug. 16, 1994)
Gover et al. (Gover) 5,557,548 Sep. 17, 1996
(filed Dec. 9, 1994)
Brantley, et al. (Brantley), “RP3 Performance Monitoring
Hardware”, Instrumentation for Future Parallel Computing Systems,
Ass. For Computing Machinery, Inc., (1989), pages 186-198
Claims 6, 8-11, 14-18, 20-25, 28-31, and 33-40 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Wibecan in view of Brantley.
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