Appeal No. 2005-1270 10
Application No. 09/798,169
1. Nota does not describe a service processor that includes a power independent
memory because Nota teaches a service processor 30 that includes a fault recovery
circuit 70 and an interruption circuit 71 but the service processor 30 is not described as
including a memory, and certainly not a power independent memory.
2. Nota does not teach a service processor that includes a power independent
memory in which data needed for error analysis is stored because Nota’s fault data is
stored in a main memory, and not in the service processor 30.
3. Nota does not teach a service processor that is used to manage a plurality of
logical partitions because Nota describes virtual machines and the function of the
service processor can be provided by the real processors, without using a service
processor, so that Nota appears to teach away from a service processor that manages
logical partitions to which a plurality of processors are assigned. Appellants urge that if
the service processor were removed from Nota, one of the remaining processors would
have to manage logical partitions to which that and the other processors were assigned.
Therefore, conclude appellants, Nota does not appear to teach a service processor that
manages logical partitions (see pages 7-8 of the principal brief).
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