Appeal No. 95-3042
Application No. 08/098,501
modify Padawer by saving the variable value information for each
instruction to a record as is done by Balzer because of a "desire to
improve the program debugging process."
The examiner also admits [answer, page 6] that neither
Padawer nor Balzer teaches the use of different logs for holding the
value information. "Nor is there a disclosure of the method for
retrieving the information from the plural logs as in claims 1 and
10." Nevertheless, the examiner concludes that it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art
to store the variable value information for
distinct runs or simulations in distinct
logs since storage in the same log would
require an overwrite of previous
information. It would be very helpful to a
debugger to maintain the results of
different simulations or runs so as to be
able to compare them to see if results
changed.
The examiner continues, at page 6 of the answer:
The modification to include plural logs
would clearly necessitate the retrieval of
information from the logs as in claims 1 and
10. Balzer teaches on page 572 that the
history is searched in a forward or backward
direction for the next occurrence of a value
change depending upon which direction the
execution is going. This teaches the
searching claimed in claims 1 and 10 as they
are best understood. It would have been
obvious to modify Padawer et al by including
the plural logs as discussed above. And
this modification would necessitate the
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