Appeal No. 1996-3076
Application 08/118,773
being executed," which we have interpreted to be the events.
Thus, we find the status table limitation taught by Dieter.
The Examiner states that the step of "authorizing
access to the status table (TE), particularly in the reading
mode, for service programs (SER) external to the observed
program being executed" is "apparent from page 199 fig.2 and
page 200 fig.3" (EA4). More instructive is the discussion
about the monitoring software (page 200, right col.) which
has access to the stored events. We find this limitation
taught by Dieter.
The Examiner finds the step of "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)" to be "an apparent process in
collecting and storing information" (EA4). Appellant argues
that this step is not taught by Dieter (Br13-14). The
Examiner responds that Dieter teaches storing information
with time stamps (EA12).
We do not find anything in Dieter than can be
interpreted to anticipate this "retaining" step. A time
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