Appeal No. 1998-0066
Application 08/258,235
Thus, Aslanian teaches only that a dump process was known
for a single processor (which is admitted by Appellants) and
does not teach the various claimed signals (system
disconnection command, dump acquisition command, and
disconnection complete notice) or the actions taken in
response to these signals.
The Examiner concludes (Paper No. 5, pages 3-4): "It
would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in
the art to combine Krings with Aslanian by having [sic]
providing signaling conditions between each processor to
indicate when to initiate a dump and when to have the
back-up processor begin working." The Examiner further
states (EA4): "[A]n incorporation of Aslanian with the
disclosure of Krings[] would lead one of ordinary skill in
the art to readily produce a system wherein the signaling
conditions between each processor would initiate a memory
dump. This dump would perform the expected process of
allowing a back-up processor to quickly begin working, to
assume continual operation of the process which the failed
processor left incomplete."
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