Appeal No. 2003-1533
Application No. 09/566,910
Kikinis' invention is directed to an automatic recovery
system in the event of a failure from corrupted operating or
application software, to reduce the time that the computer is
nonfunctional (see column 1, lines 37-44). Kikinis discloses
(column 3, lines 7-16) that hard disk 41 has two partitions, a
first partition which retains the operating software and the
application software, and a second partition which retains a copy
of the operating software and the application software. Kikinis
teaches (column 3, lines 26-30) rebooting the CPU using the
duplicate operating software and, if successful, re-installing
the application software.
Kikinis fails to disclose "copying selected data from the
hard drive to a storage resource connected to the Internet" and
"if the selected data copied from the hard drive needs to be
restored back to the hard drive, accessing the storage resource
to which the selected data was copied and restoring the selected
data back to the hard drive." The examiner applies Perks to
remedy this deficiency. Specifically, Perks teaches backing up
critical files (i.e., configuration files, setup files, and user
data files) which are difficult to recover after an event such as
a system crash, to make them easier to recover.
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