Appeal No. 1999-0288
Application No. 08/538,071 Page 7
would be accessible by the elements of the monitoring system
(including software) because it would ensure that the specif[ic]
process, along with the events associated with the process, are
identified correctly, in order to enable the counters correctly
for performance monitoring of those events and processes."
With respect to independent claim 8, the examiner asserts
(final rejection, page 5) that "Wibecan does not specifically
show a control register, rather control routines which control
the operation of the counters." To overcome this deficiency in
Wibecan, the examiner turns to Brantley for a teaching of a
register which controls the operation of the counting functions.
The examiner asserts (id.) that “[i]t would have been obvious to
one ordinary skill in the art to utilize a hardware based
register to house the controlling indicators for the counting
operations performed by Wibecan’s counting functions, because it
would allow Wibecan’s system to have a hardware based performance
monitoring option, which would complement the software based
monitoring functions which operate in a similar manner. This
would allow a user to control the counters using a control
register, via setting bits in hardware register, rather than
doing so in a data structure in a software routine, which gives a
user versatility in controlling the monitoring session.”
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