Appeal No. 2000-1755
Application No. 08/828,014
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an initial program load in data processing
network. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method of booting a client data processing system attached to a
control data processing system in a data processing network comprising:
at power-on or re-boot of a client system, issuing an initial program
load request from the client system onto the network; and
responsive to the receipt of the initial program load request at a
control system, transferring bootstrap code to the client system to cause
the client system to load operating system code from a mass storage
device of the client system, the operating system code being present on
the mass storage device at the time when the initial program load request
was issued from the client system onto the network.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Kannan et al. (Kannan) 5,519,870 May 21, 1996
Kishimoto 5,687,073 Nov. 11, 1997
(Filed Feb. 17, 1995)
Claims 1-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kishimoto in view of Kannan.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 18, mailed Aug. 28, 2000) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
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