Appeal No. 2002-2073
Application No. 09/210,104 Page 7
malfunction of the program has occurred, for better detection and
correction of the malfunction.
The examiner additionally asserts (id.) that "Borchardt does
not specifically teach inserting said Execution Trace Facility
into the code of the program in a disable mode." To overcome
this deficiency of Borchardt, the examiner turns to Mann for a
teaching of a software debug facility which is able to set the
tracing information in an enable or disable mode. The examiner
asserts (id.) that “[i]t would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to
allow Borchardt’s program to be set to a disable mode as taught
by Mann because the system will not be interrupted at the disable
mode.” The examiner adds (answer, page 3) that one of ordinary
skill in the art would have been motivated to include Mann's
disable function in Borchardt's trace facility in view of Mann's
disclosure of the advantage of disabling the trace function to
reduce process power consumption.
Appellants assert (brief, page 5) that in Borchardt, the
trace program is placed within the program and is executed each
time the program is executed, and that in Borchardt, the only
decision is whether or not the trace results should be stored in
memory or not (discarded). Appellants argue (id.) that the
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