Appeal No. 1996-3076
Application 08/118,773
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-7, 9-17, 20-24, and
26.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and
apparatus for tracking the execution of a program.
Information relating to the execution of the program is
stored and an external service program can access the stored
information to provide assistance to the user of the
program.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of observation of the execution of a
program loaded into an information processing system of
the type including the following minimal configuration:
a central processing unit, a central memory, one or
more input and/or output peripherals exchanging data
with the central processing unit, an operating system,
optionally one or more application programs, and a
service program external to the application program for
accessing an observation memory particularly in a
reading mode comprising:
- recording instantaneous information units
relating to program being executed and/or the
information processing operation context of said
program at predetermined points of the information
processing system;
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