Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-21
2005-06-21
Beausoliel, Robert (Department: 2113)
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
C713S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06910157
ABSTRACT:
A portable computer system has a light emitting diode (LED) indicator including multiple LEDs to display a power-on self-test (POST) state and an operating state of the computer system. When the portable computer system performs a POST process during system boot, the LEDs of the LED indicator are lighted in response to each step of the POST process. If any error is detected in the POST process, the POST process is stopped with lighting LEDs. The lighting state of the LED indicator indicates where the error has occurred in the computer system, so that a user can verify which element of the computer system has an error, without additionally adding a POST card to the computer system.
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Korean Office Action of the Korean Patent Publication No. 1999-28925, issued on Dec. 22, 2004 (English translation attached).
Kim Dong-Wook
Park Jang-Ho
Beausoliel Robert
Bushnell , Esq. Robert E.
McCarthy Christopher
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