Appeal No. 2005-1361
Application No. 09/798,287 4
Dow fails to teach combining the status values to form a new
value, where the status values are from a plurality of status
registers that are associated with a plurality of components as
claimed because the information in the recall data pattern in Dow
is not status values from a plurality of status registers.
Finally, appellants argue that Dow fails to teach using the new
value to search a set of corrective measures for at least one
corrective measure because there is no new value in Dow which is
a combination of status values from a plurality of status
registers [brief, pages 5-7].
The examiner responds that Dow discloses a plurality of
status registers which each contains a status value in the form
of the stored state values of the system. Essentially, the
examiner finds that each 32-bit machine state in Dow is stored in
a separate status register. The examiner also points out that
Dow teaches that these stored state values are processed into a
recall data pattern. The examiner finds that this recall data
pattern meets the combining step of claim 1. Finally, the
examiner points out that the recall data pattern in Dow is used
to return an ordered recommendation list which includes suggested
corrective actions which may repair a fault [answer, pages 18-
21].
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