Appeal No. 1999-1193
Application No. 08/429,504
the Examiner's final rejection of claims 2 to 12 and 18 to1
28.
Claims 1, 13 to 17 and 29 to 32 have been canceled.
The disclosed invention is directed to an improved method
and system for saving the operating state of a data processing
system to a nonvolatile storage such that the operating state
may be rapidly restored, for example, in response to
restoration of power to the data processing system.
Figure 2 of the specification depicts an illustrative
embodiment of the data processing system with which the method
and system of the present invention may be utilized. In
response to a selected input, a determination is made whether
1First amendment after the final rejection (paper no. 14)
was not approved for entry by the Examiner, see paper no. 15.
Second amendment after final (paper no. 16) was approved for
entry by the Examiner, see paper no. 17. We also note that
the statement for the grounds of rejection in the final
rejection is different from the statement of ground of
rejection in the Examiner's answer. However, we note that the
statement of rejection in the Examiner's answer on page 3 is
consistent with the issues outlined by appellants at page 6 of
the brief, except for the oversight by the Examiner of the
inclusion of claims 18 to 22 in the statement of rejection
under U.S.C. § 103. Since appellants have argued the
rejection of the claims as presented in the Examiner's answer,
we consider that the issues outlined in the brief at page 6
are before us for appeal.
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