DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Response to Amendment
The amendment filed on July 1, 2026 is acknowledged. Claims 1-6, 8-13 and 15-20 remain pending. Applicant amended claims 1, 6, 8, 13, 15 and 20.
All outstanding rejections have been withdrawn in light of the amendment and Applicant’s remarks.
Response to Arguments
The amendment necessitated the new ground of rejection set forth below. The new ground of rejection render moot Applicant’s arguments with respect to the patentability of the claims.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The text of those sections of Title 35, U.S. Code not included in this action can be found in a prior Office action.
Claims 8-13 and 15-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Independent claims 8 and 15 are indefinite because the nexus between the computer/computing apparatus and the “receive” step recited in the claims is unclear. Specifically, it is unclear whether the computer/computing apparatus receives the request for raw data, or if it causes another entity (endpoint interface) to receive the request for raw data. Based on the language of claims 9, 10, 16 and 17, the computer/computing apparatus does not appear to be the entity performing the receiving. If so, the language of the “receive” step in claims 8 and 15 should be amended to convey that the computer/computing apparatus causes another entity (endpoint interface) to perform the receiving. Currently, the verb “receive” is attributed to the computer/computing apparatus.
Claims not explicitly rejected are rejected due to dependency.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-6 are allowed. In addition, claims 8-13 and 15-20 would be allowable if they are amended to overcome the 35 U.S.C. 112(b) rejection set forth above.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Prior art is replete with disclosure directed to a network that requests raw data, retrieves the raw data from a raw data store, decodes the raw data, and receives the decoded raw data. For example, Hekmatpour et al. (“Hekmatpour”) (US 2007/0279187 A1) discloses a network system configured to:
receive an input for a request (access command, see abstract) for raw data (e.g. medical information, personal identification information) using an endpoint interface 110 of an autonomous service in a data processing environment 100 (see Fig. 1), where the environment exposes multiple endpoint interfaces (see Fig. 3), wherein the autonomous service is independent of other services for its functionality and refrains from synchronously assisting other services (see [0039] and Fig. 1 illustrating each endpoint interface 110 associated with a dedicated client interface 112 that establishes an asynchronous connection with server 120); and
retrieve the requested raw data from a raw data store 124/126/128.
However, the endpoint interface 110 taught by Hekmatpour is not characterized by a data type, and Hekmatpour does not disclose a step of returning the data back to the raw data store, as recited in independent claims 1, 8 and 15.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/PAUL S HYUN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1796
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