Appeal No. 2006-2373 Application No. 10/113,083 Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below: 1. A method of verifying a memory image written from system memory to a dump disk when a computer system experiences a fatal error causing a system crash, said method comprising: locking at least one portion of the system memory to prevent the locked portion from being swapped out to a swap partition prior to the system crash; seeding the locked portion of the memory with a signature; upon detecting the system crash, dumping the seeded portion of the memory to the dump disk, said dumped portion including an image of the seeded signature; and verifying the memory image by comparing the dumped signature image with the signature that was seeded in the locked portion of the memory prior to the system crash . The following references are relied on by the examiner: Wilson 2002/0166053 Nov. 7, 2002 (Filed date May 2, 2001) Price 6,738,932 May 18, 2004 (Filed date Dec. 22, 2000) 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007