Appeal No. 1996-3076
Application 08/118,773
structure in the specification corresponds to the fourth
means.
The EPU is part of the TMP, which is external to (i.e.,
outside) the measured and monitored system (Figures 2 and
3). The events stored in the EPU (the "memorized
information") are "accessible from outside the application
program" by the event processing software on the TMP. The
program in the local memory of the TMP for reading the
events stored in the EPU is a "fourth means (40) constituted
by a monitoring module in said observation memory (38)."
The program in the TMP is equivalent to the "structure"
disclosed in Appellant's specification, which is also a
program. The TMP program must communicate bidirectionally
with a "service program" which we read on the monitoring
program at the central station (e.g., page 201). Because
the program in the TMP can read and modify variables in the
memory of the main processor being tested (page 200, left
col., last para.), we find that the program in the TMP
communicates "bidirectionally" with the operating system as
well as the application program. Thus, the "fourth means"
is taught by Dieter.
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