Appeal No. 1997-1984
Application 08/408,127
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 and 3 to
6, which constitute all of the pending claims in the application before us. Claim 2 has been canceled.
BACKGROUND
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a computer system which can report system failures
to a remote site after an attempt to reboot. An important feature of appellants’ computer system and
method on appeal is that local firmware resident in the computer attempts to reboot the system, and
then, even if reboot fails, the firmware sends an error report to the remote facility.
Representative independent system claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A computer system having a mechanism for reporting complete system failure to a
remote site without requiring the system to be successfully rebooted, comprising:
a system CPU;
coupled to said CPU,
a non-volatile control store;
main memory;
a storage device storing a computer operating system; and
means resident in said non-volatile control store for reporting complete system failure to a
remote site without requiring the system to be successfully rebooted by reloading said operating system
into main memory, said means being invoked upon occurrence of a non-recoverable error and
comprising:
means for assembling failure-related information;
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