Appeal No. 1996-3076
Application 08/118,773
reader and buffer memory reader of a printer or modem"
(Br15).
Dieter discusses hardware and software monitor tools in
the discussion of "The Problem" (pages 197-98), but this is
Dieter's description of the prior art. The pickup in the
system described in Dieter includes a hardware component
which attaches to the system bus (page 199, right col.,
"4.2 Structure of the TMP"). The TMP has a comparator which
checks addresses on the system bus for addresses within the
range representing event classes and, if they match, "the
matched address and the next data on the bus are stored with
the timer contents in an event memory" (page 199, right
col.); thus, there is also software associated with the
pickup. We find that the TMP monitor performs the function
of picking up instantaneous information. The structure of
the pickups disclosed in the specification is "programs
and/or circuits" (page 8, line 3). We find that the TMP
monitor in Dieter is equivalent to the disclosed structure
because it contains both circuits (hardware) and programs
(software) for picking up information on the system bus.
Claim 10 does not recite the functions of reading from
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