Appeal No. 1996-3076
Application 08/118,773
reads on the steps of reducing incoming information and
filtering done by the local monitoring software (page 198,
left col.)
The Examiner reads the step of "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"
onto the disclosure in Dieter that "events are categorized,
processed" (page 198, right col.) and "[d]etailed
measurement and monitoring information are evaluated and
stored locally in the compiler information data base"
(page 200, right col.). This is too general and unspecific
to anticipate. However, Dieter discloses that 256 event
classes are stored at 256 addresses in EPU (event processing
unit) memory (page 199, right col.). Each event entry in
EPU memory is 80 bits long and consists of 8 bits
representing the event class, 32 bit data specifying a
single event, 36 bit time stamp, and a 4 bit control field
such as CPU mode or overflow marker (page 199, right col.).
This set of addresses is a "status table" and contains
"information units corresponding to the observed program
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