Appeal No. 1997-3206
Application No. 08/350,274
for illustrating the progressive sequence of execution of
program code. Appellants indicate at page 2 of the
specification that, in a preferred embodiment, the program
instructions are presented in a plurality of colors, with the
different colors corresponding to the order of execution of
the software code.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. In a data processing system having a display device
capable of displaying data, an apparatus for illustrating
on the display device an order of execution of software
code, comprising:
means for presenting at least portions of software
code on the display device, the software code
representing instructions for operation of a computer under
control of
a program; and
presentation means for presenting with the displayed
instructions of the software code an integrated visual
indication of a progressive sequence of execution of the
displayed instructions for the operation of the computer
under control of the program.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Brown 4,965,765 Oct. 23,
1990
Gusenius 5,307,493 Apr. 26,
1994
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