Appeal No. 2002-0901
Application 09/126,996
from the year 1999 to the year 2000. The invention solves the
problem by monitoring the current date and time and correcting
the date just before the transition occurs.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer system comprising:
at least one central processing unit (CPU);
a system memory coupled to the CPU;
a non-volatile memory coupled to the CPU, the non-volatile
memory storing a current date and time;
a real time clock coupled to the non-volatile memory to
provide the current date and time to the non-volatile memory;
a memory for storing computer software, the computer
software including a plurality of instructions capable of
performing the operations of:
monitoring the current date and time at periodic intervals;
determining whether the current date is equal to a
predetermined date;
if the current date is equal to the predetermined date,
determining whether the current time is a predetermined amount of
time before the end of that predetermined date;
if the current date is equal to the predetermined date and
the current time is a predetermined amount of time before the end
of the predetermined date, setting the date to the day after the
predetermined date and setting the time to 00:00:00.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Anderson et al. (Erasoft) GB 2 312 060 Oct. 15, 1997
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