Appeal No. 2002-2073
Application No. 09/210,104 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a method and apparatus for
monitoring the execution of a program. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. An Execution Trace Facility computer system, which
provides all available pertinent data required to trace a program
flow for malfunctions, comprising:
means for inserting said Execution Trace Facility into the
code of the program in a disabled mode, at various strategic
locations;
means for recompiling said program after said Execution
Trace Facility is inserted into said code of the said program;
means for using said program in a normal operating
environment and for determining if a malfunction of said program
occurs; and
means for enabling said Execution Trace Facility to restart
said program and detect and correct said malfunction only in
response to a detection that a malfunction of said program has
occurred.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Borchardt et al. 5,513,317 Apr. 30, 1996
(Borchardt)
Mann 6,094,729 Jul. 25, 2000
(filed Dec. 17, 1997)
Alexander, III et al. 6,118,940 Sep. 12, 2000
(Alexander) (filed Nov. 25, 1997)
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