Appeal No. 2001-0164
Application No. 08/885,379
during a boot-up phase and when a possible source of the
operating system is detected, having the CPU (80) check to
determine whether such detected source is operational and has a
valid boot format (402). See Appellants' specification on page
38, lines 1-11 and 25-32 and associated Figure 16. If the
detected source is operational and has a valid boot format (403),
the method includes the step of having the CPU boot the detected
operating system into the main memory (404). See Appellants'
specification on page 39, lines 2-6 and associated Figure 16. If
the detected source is either non-operational or does not have a
valid boot format, the method includes the step of having the CPU
check another one of the possible operating system sources (405).
See Appellants' specification on page 39, lines 6-10 and
associated Figure 16. If all sources are checked and none are
both operational and have a valid boot format, the method
includes the step of having the CPU repeat the aforementioned
sequential search of the possible operating system sources. See
Appellants' specification on page 38, lines 19-22, page 39, lines
31-33 and associated Figure 16.
The only independent claim 1 present in the application is
reproduced as follows:
A method for booting operating system software into a main
memory of a CPU, comprising the steps of:
2
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