Appeal No. 96-1233
Application 08/259,368
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 17-23 and 25-30, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for monitoring the resources assigned to one or more
computer processors. Predefined events are indicated by
generating event signals at the start and at the end of an
event. Performance data on the event is measured, and the
performance data is stored for only a selected subset of the
event signals.
Representative claim 17 is reproduced as follows:
17. A system for monitoring the performance of one or
more computer processors and a plurality of processor
resources assigned to said one or more processors, the system
comprising:
control program means executing on each of said one or
more computer processors for generating event signals at a
start and an end of predefined events;
monitor control means for controlling collection of
performance data and for displaying performance data;
data collection means for collecting performance data
from said one or more computer processors, the data collection
means being responsive to said monitor control means, said
data collection means further comprising:
storage means for storing performance data;
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