Appeal No. 96-1439
Application 08/338,976
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 to 20, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Representative claim 11 is reproduced below:
11. A method for dynamically handling processing errors
in a computer system having a plurality of functional units,
comprising the steps of:
detecting an error occurring during processing of an
operation by a functional unit;
determining that said error was caused by a timing
dependent defect; and,
after said determining step causing said functional unit
to process subsequent operations in a degraded performance
mode such that said error will not recur.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Missios et al. (Missios) 4,025,768 May 24,
1977
Claims 1 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Missios
alone.
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