Appeal No. 2005-1270 2
Application No. 09/798,169
detecting, by a partition manager, a fault state in the data processing
system; and
saving data relating to the fault state in a power independent memory that
is included within a service processor in the data processing system.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Nota et al. (Nota) 5,805,790 Sept. 8, 1998
Faulk, Jr. 6,256,756 July 3, 2001
(filed Dec. 4, 1998)
Houston et al. (Houston) 6,493,656 Dec. 10, 2002
(filed Feb. 26, 1999)
Claims 9-11, 26-28, and 37-39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102 (e) as
anticipated by Houston.
Claims 1-39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103 as unpatentable over Nota in
view of non-volatile memory and EEPROM.
Claims 15-17 stand further rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103 as unpatentable over
Faulk in view of firmware.
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