Appeal No. 1998-0066
Application 08/258,235
in the operating processor; (2) "sending a disconnection
complete notice from said operating processor to said backup
processor" once the operating processor is disconnected;
(3) "said operating processor executing a dump process in
response to receiving said dump acquisition command";
(4) "executing a disconnection process in response to
receiving said disconnection command independently of the
completion of the dump process"; and (5) the "operating data
processor exclusively occupying said system resource" and
"said backup processor, after receiving said disconnection
complete notice, takes over data processing from said
operating processor including occupying said at least one
system resource for performing ongoing processing within
said system."
The relevant portion of Aslanian relied on by the
Examiner states (col. 1, lines 16-22):
When a computer system encounters a major problem
requiring an interruption of its operation, a physical
memory dump is generated for subsequent analysis by
system engineers before the system shuts down. Such
memory dumps represent the state of the operating
system control structures at the time the problem
appeared in the system.
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