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  1. Re:Wrong ... on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 1

    Do you mean ECS?

    On the iSeries(AS/400). All faults were reported to the system logs, and I believe to any one logged on with qsysopr privileges. The system would then make the call if it was setup to do so. Otherwise an admin could do it manually.

  2. Re:There is NO prior art on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Three words: IBM AS/400 ECS

    I should say iSeries ofcourse. I'm not sure when ECS was added, but it was in atleast OS/400 V3R4 and later. It does differ from the MS system though, it detects hardware faults too.

    Detects hardware/software faults
    Calls IBM
    Downloads/orders PTFs

    How is that NOT prior art?