Appeal No. 2000-1260
Application 08/518,852
In looking to Appellants’ specification for support for the
above limitations, we find that the critical limitations are the
steps of “automatically determining without receiving input from
a user whether the computer program was successfully configured
in accordance with the retrieved first set of configuration data,
determining that the computer program was not successfully
configured and automatically retrieving the second set of
configuration data.” As stated supra, we find that Appellants
disclose the steps and program for “automatically determining”
and “automatically retrieving” on page 10 lines 5-17 and in
Figures 1, 2 and the last paragraph of computer program in Figure
5,
[i]f any of the device drivers should fail to load or
initialize, then the LoadDeviceDrivers program (121)
decides whether the system boot procedure currently
underway should continue in spite of the failure to
properly initialize the device driver, or whether a new
system boot procedure should be initiated using the
LastKnownGood control set (210) of the registry (107).
If a decision is made to reboot the computer (105)
using the LastKnownGood control set (210) then the
system boot procedure is reinitiated using the
configuration data stored in the LastKnownGood control
set (201).
(Emphasis added). We find further disclosure supporting
Appellants claim limitations in a flow chart illustrated in
Figure 7 and defined on page 14 lines 5-9,
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