Appeal No. 1998-0066 Application 08/258,235 a system can generate a memory dump before it shuts down. The Examiner baldly concludes that the backup processor providing the signals for the operating processor to initiate the dump process would have been obvious. The Examiner has not made a prima facie case that it would have been obvious for the backup processor to send a dump acquisition command instead of the operating processor just generating a dump as part of its shutdown routine. Nor is the Examiner's conclusion (FR3-4) that executing a disconnection process independently of the completion of a dump process would have been obvious supported by any evidence. Lastly, Krings does not disclose a shared system resource that is occupied exclusively by the operating data processor and then is occupied by the backup processor. Processor P1 does not exclusively occupy memory M2 during normal operation. Backup processor P2 does not occupy memory M1 after take over. The Examiner does not deal with the "operating data processor exclusively occupying said system resource" language. - 8 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007