Appeal No. 2004-0545
Application No. 09/510,569
operation and data from the hardware setup is then transferred to the data
processing system. See page 5 of appellants’ specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. A method for performing a hardware setup operation on a data
processing system, said method comprising:
storing a hardware setup program and a plurality of dynamic link
modules in a server data processing system;
coupling data processing system to said server data processing
system via a data processing system network;
in response to a request to execute said hardware setup program
by said data processing system, executing said hardware setup program
within said server data processing system;
modifying hardware configuration data within said data processing
system according to instructions generated from said execution of said
hardware setup program within said server data processing system; and
de-coupling sad data processing system from said server data
processing system after a completion of said hardware setup operation.
References
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Rakavy et al. (Rakavy) 6,324,644 Nov. 27, 2001
(filed Jan 19, 1999)
Rejection at Issue
Claims 1 through 8 and 17 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 as being anticipated by Rakavy. Throughout the opinion we make
reference to the Briefs1 and the answer for the respective details thereof.
1Appellants filed an Appeal Brief on June 12, 2003 (certified as being mailed on June 10,
2003, in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 1.8(a)) and appellants filed a Reply Brief on
August 14, 2003 (certified as mailed on August 11, 2003, in accordance with 37 C.F.R. §
1.8(a)).
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