Appeal No. 2002-2073
Application No. 09/210,104 Page 11
program is executed while the trace facility is active. The
trace facility gathers all historical trace data which may be
pertinent. Each trace output entry which is produced during
execution is associated with one or more categories of
categories/filter of the trace criteria. The trace entries are
preferably stored as object oriented objects (col. 4, lines 1-
17).
From the disclosure of Borchardt (col. 3, lines 46 and 47)
that "[i]f desired, the trace facility of the present invention
becomes active," we find that the trace facility was inactive
(disabled) prior to becoming active by input of data by the
programmer (or through default criteria), as is clear from figure
2. Although both the examiner (final rejection, page 3) and
appellants (brief, page 5) take the position that Borchardt does
not disclose inserting the Execution Trace Facility into the
program code in a disabled mode, we find that because the trace
facility of Borchardt is inactive until activated by the
programmer, that the trace facility was inherently inserted into
the program code in a disabled mode.
Moreover, claim 1 additionally requires that the program is
recompiled after the Execution Trace Facility has been inserted
into the program code. Borchardt discloses (col. 2, lines 9-12)
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