Appeal No. 1998-0066
Application 08/258,235
transmitting said dump acquisition command and
said disconnection command to said operating processor
from said backup processor when a failure occurs in
said operating processor, said operating processor
executing a dump process in response to receiving said
dump acquisition command that dumps data externally of
said operating processor and executing a disconnection
process in response to receiving said disconnection
command independently of the completion of said dump
process;
wherein said operating processor outputs to said
backup processor the disconnection complete notice once
said operating processor is disconnected from said
system and whereby said backup processor, after
receiving said disconnection complete notice, takes
over the data processing from said operating processor
including occupying said at least one system resource
for performing ongoing processing within said system.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Krings 4,819,232 April 4, 1989
Aslanian et al. (Aslanian) 5,111,384 May 5, 1992
Claims 1-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Krings and Aslanian. The Examiner
finds that Krings teaches a multiple processor fault
tolerant system in which one processor acts as a primary
processor and the other acts as a backup processor. The
Examiner finds that Krings does not teach the backup
processor sending a dump command to the operating processor
to execute a dump process. The Examiner finds that Aslanian
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