Appeal No. 2006-3352
Application No. 09/682,520
instructions executed as a result of the evaluation of true (Brief, page 2). Claims for an
apparatus, a method for instrumenting a computer program, and a compiler for
instrumenting a computer program with similar limitations are also presented.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for tracing the execution path of a computer program
comprising at least one module including a plurality of instructions, at least one of said
instructions being a branch instruction, the method comprising the steps of:
identifying each branch instruction;
evaluating each branch instruction to be one of true and false; and
responsive to an evaluation of true, pushing a unique identifier into a predefined
area of storage, wherein said unique identifier is associated with the instructions
executed as a result of said evaluation of true.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Wisor et al. (Wisor) 6,173,395 Jan. 9, 2001
Ayers et al. (Ayers) 6,353,924 Mar. 5, 2002
(filed Feb. 8, 1999)
Rejections At Issue
Claims 1, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Wisor.
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over
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