Appeal No. 1997-1984
Application 08/408,127
means for establishing communication with said remote site; and
means for transmitting said failure-related information to said remote site.
Representative independent method claim 3 is reproduced below:
3. A method of reporting complete failure of a computer system to a remote site without
requiring the system to be successfully rebooted, the computer system running a[n] [sic] computer
operating system, the method comprising the steps of:
the computer operating system determining that a non-recoverable system error currently exists;
the operating system invoking a firmware mechanism within the computer system;
the firmware mechanism attempting to reboot said system; and
the firmware mechanism, if the system cannot be rebooted, sending to a remote location
notification of system failure.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Farrand et al. (Farrand) 5,257,384 Oct. 26, 1993
(filed Sept. 9, 1991)
Claims 1 and 3 to 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the
examiner relies upon Farrand alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of appellants and the examiner, reference is made to the Brief
and the Answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
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