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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 .
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 1/30/2026 has been entered.
Specification
The disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities: unreadable.
Para. [0014][0015][0042] [0047]-[0049] of the specification recite formulas which are unreadable.
Appropriate correction is required.
Drawings
The drawings 1-9 are objected to because of unreadable.
The drawings 1-9 are not readable, the drawing of 10-15 are recommended to resubmit too. It seems the drawings submitted without the high enough resolution. please resubmit readable drawings.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Objections
Claims 1, 14 and 17 are objected to because of the following informalities: unreadable.
The formula recited at 1, 14 and 17 cannot be read.
Please resubmit the readable claim set.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claims 1, 14, 4-10, 12-13 and 17, 21-22 are objected to because of the following informalities: lack of antecedent basis.
Claim 1, 14 and 17, etc. recite the operational policies which appear the plurality of operational policies, etc.
the policy evaluation system which appears the computer-implemented policy evaluation system, etc.
The actors which appear the plurality of actors, etc.
Claim 1, 14, 17, etc. recite a previously estimated ranking of combination of policies appeal a previously estimated ranking of combination of operational policies, etc.
Claim 4-10, 12-13, etc. recite the policy evaluation systems which appear the computer-implemented policy system.
Claim 21, 22, etc. recite the method which appear the computer-implemented method.
Please check if there are any other similar issues and correct it for the whole claim set.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1, 14 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 14 and 17 recite mathematical formulas, but there are undefined variables. It makes the scope of the invention unclear or indefinite. such as ρ, R(+), and further such as f(rel), i for the sampling formula, in 1, 14 and 17, etc. Thus, the scope of the limitation cannot be determined by Examiner. Please define each variable in the claims.
Appropriate correction is required.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 1, 14 and 17 are objected.
As allowable subject matter has been indicated, applicant's reply must either comply with all formal requirements or specifically traverse each requirement not complied with. See 37 CFR 1.111(b) and MPEP § 707.07(a).
The prior arts of record including the newly cited prior arts when taken individually or in combination do not expressly teach or render obvious the amended limitations recited in claims 1, 14 and 17, when taken in the context of the claims as a whole.
At best the prior arts of record, specifically Wright et al. (US20180012137) disclose A control system and method for controlling a system, which employs a data set representing a plurality of states and associated trajectories of an environment of the system; and which iteratively determines an estimate of an optimal control policy for the system. The iterative process performs the substeps, until convergence, of estimating a long term value for operation at a respective state of the environment over a series of predicted future environmental states; using a complex return of the data set to determine a bound to improve the estimated long term value; and producing an updated estimate of an optimal control policy dependent on the improved estimate of the long term value. The control system may produce an output signal to control the system directly, or output the optimized control policy. The system preferably is a reinforcement learning system which continually improves…. see abstract.
Nishi US 2018/0373245 disclose A device and method for state progression in a set of autonomous vehicle states related to an autonomous vehicle objective for a multi-vehicle environment. A vehicular state of another vehicle of the multi-vehicle environment is discerned to produce a discerned vehicular state of the another vehicle, wherein the another vehicle operates to affect the autonomous vehicle objective. An adaptive policy is formed for a present one of the set of autonomous vehicle states based on the discerned vehicular state, and producing from the adaptive policy an autonomous vehicle action to progress to a subsequent one of the set of autonomous vehicle states. The autonomous vehicle action is transmitted for effecting a progression to the subsequent one of the set of autonomous vehicle states… see abstract.
In addition, neither a reference uncovered that would have provided a basis of evidence for asserting a motivation, nor one of ordinary skilled in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention was made, knowing the teaching of the prior arts of record would have combined them to arrive at the present invention as recited in the context of independent claims 1, 14 and 17 and as a whole.
Conclusion
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XUYANG XIA
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2143
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