Appeal No. 1997-3499
Application 08/366,281
(e) repeating steps (a) through (d) for each of said
plurality of memory locations.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Ryan 4,479,214 October 23,
1984
Arnold et al. (Arnold) 5,442,699 August 15, 1995
(filed November 21, 1994)
Watson et al. (Watson) 5,475,839 December 12, 1995
(filed November 16, 1994)
Claims 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 21 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Arnold, Watson, and
Ryan. The Examiner finds that Arnold teaches detecting
possible viruses within a computer's memory, Watson teaches
halting a system from booting and issuing a warning to the
user if corrupted files are detected prior to boot, and Ryan
teaches scrubbing means. The Examiner concludes that it would
have been obvious to utilize the scrubbing means of Ryan to
check for soft errors and then subsequently to check for virus
errors as taught by Arnold and Watson because it would enable
the system to first check for any soft errors detected by the
scrubbing process prior to virus detection (Final Rejection,
page 4).
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