Appeal No. 2002-2259
Application No. 09/083,959
added to a system using the information affixed to the processor
is difficult and sometimes impossible due to the placement of
other components such as heat sinks and cooling fans
(specification page 2). To facilitate the selection of
compatible processors, a software program is executed on the
multiprocessor system to determine and compare the revision
number of current processors in the system with processor
compatibility information in order to present to a user the
processors that are compatible with all current processors
(Specification, pages 3 & 4).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method in a computer system for using processor
compatibility information to select a compatible processor for
addition to a multiprocessor computer, the multiprocessor
computer having at least one current processor in a CPU slot and
having at least one additional CPU slot in which the new
processor can be added, a processor having a revision number, the
method comprising:
obtaining processor compatibility information stored in an
electronic memory having a plurality of processor models and
revisions and the various model and revisions of processors that
are compatible with each of plurality of processor models and
revisions;
executing a computer program on the multiprocessor computer
directing each processor in the multiprocessor computer to
execute at least one instruction that allows the model and
revision number of the processor to be determined and comparing
the model and revision numbers of the current processors in the
multiprocessor computer with the processor compatibility
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