The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte GEORGE KRAFT IV ____________ Appeal No. 2004-1136 Application No. 09/363,948 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before THOMAS, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 2, and 4 through 21, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Appellant's invention relates to a method of monitoring configuration files of a computer. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows: 1. A method of monitoring the configuration of a computer system, comprising: as a preliminary step in an error recovery procedure, determining whether each of a set of configuration files, each file containing configuration parameters values for a corresponding executable program of thePage: 1 2 3 4 5 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007