Appeal No. 2003-1533
Application No. 09/566,910
computer system may be booted from the copy of the operating
system, and if selected data needs to be restored back to the
hard drive, the backup location may be accessed. Claim 7 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
7. A method for protecting data of a computer system
having a hard drive with an operating system stored on a first
partition thereof, comprising:
copying the operating system from the first partition of the
hard drive to a second partition of the hard drive and copying
selected data from the hard drive to a remote location;
if a crash that prevents the computer system from booting
from the operating system stored on the first partition of the
hard drive occurs, booting the computer system from the copy of
the operating system stored on the second partition of the hard
drive; and
if the selected data copied from the hard drive needs to be
restored back to the hard drive, accessing the remote location to
which the selected data was copied and restoring the selected
data back to the hard drive.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Kikinis 5,708,776 Jan. 13, 1998
(filed May 09, 1996)
Perks 5,924,102 Jul. 13, 1999
(filed May 07, 1997)
Claims 1 through 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kikinis in view of Perks.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 10,
mailed January 27, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
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