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.
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