Appeal No. 1996-3076 Application 08/118,773 - optionally processing certain of said information units processed by pre-established analysis procedures; - memorizing in a status table (TE) and in accordance with a pre-established grid, a selection of, processed and/or unprocessed, information units corresponding to the observed program being executed; - authorizing access to the status table (TE), particularly in the reading mode, for service programs (SER) external to the observed program being executed, - retaining all or part of the status tables (TE) corresponding to observation cycles preceding the current cycle in memory in accordance with a structure of previous chronologically arranged status tables (TANT1-TANTN), and - beginning with the observed application program, automatically loading an address table directly accessible from outside the application program, including the instantaneous addresses of blocks of information relating to the execution of the observed program, in particular an address of a code of a function being executed and an address of the contents of an instantaneous context associated with the function. The Examiner relies on the following prior art: Wade 5,067,107 November 19, 1991 (filed November 5, 1988) Dieter Wybranietz et al. (Dieter ), Monitoring and2 performance measuring distributed systems during The Examiner and Appellant refer to this reference by2 the author's first name. To avoid confusion we do the same. - 3 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007