Appeal No. 2006-2373
Application No. 10/113,083
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of verifying a memory image written from system memory to a
dump disk when a computer system experiences a fatal error causing a system
crash, said method comprising:
locking at least one portion of the system memory to prevent the locked
portion from being swapped out to a swap partition prior to the system crash;
seeding the locked portion of the memory with a signature;
upon detecting the system crash, dumping the seeded portion of the memory
to the dump disk, said dumped portion including an image of the seeded signature;
and
verifying the memory image by comparing the dumped signature image with
the signature that was seeded in the locked portion of the memory prior to the
system crash .
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Wilson 2002/0166053 Nov. 7, 2002
(Filed date May 2, 2001)
Price 6,738,932 May 18, 2004
(Filed date Dec. 22, 2000)
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