Appeal No. 2006-2441
Application No. 10/056,224
temporal identifier signal and the probe signals in
memory.
We note that at pages 4 and 5, paragraphs 17 and 18, Appellant’s
specification states the following:
0017] The performance monitor circuit 112 provides the
capability of collecting probe data signals and associating
a temporal identifier, such as a time stamp, to the probe
data signals. (Emphasis added).
[0018] FIG. 2 illustrates the probe signals in an
embodiment of the present invention. The performance monitor
circuit 112 can receive three signals: (1) a first signal 134
indicating the value of a program counter (PC); (2) a second
signal 136 indicating a device identifier; and (3) a third
signal 138 representing the number of misses that the
identified device has incurred thus far. The performance
monitor circuit 112 associates a time stamp signal 132 with
these signals and stores their values in the second memory
110. Preferably, the second memory 110 is used to store data
from the performance monitor circuit 112 only. The time stamp
signal 132 can be 16 bits wide, the program counter signal 134
can be 32 bits wide, the miss identifier signal 136 can be 4
bits wide, and the miss counter signal 138 can be 16 bits wide
as shown in FIG. 2. The signals show in FIG. 2 are herein
referred to as the probe data or probe data signals.
Thus, the claim does require generating a temporal identifier
for association with a probe signal, and subsequently storing the
probe signals with associated temporal identifiers.
Now, the question before us is what Bunnell and Roeber would
have taught to one of ordinary skill in the art? To answer this
question, we find the following facts:
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