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 .
Claims 1-11 are presented for examination.
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 1-11 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.
Claim(s) 1 recite(s) “flattening the document tree TO (resp. TA and TB) to generate a sequence SO (resp. SA and SB) of atoms, wherein each atom of the sequence comprises an individual character of the document tree TO (resp. TA and TB)”.
It is unclear how one is to interpret the language in the parentheses, rendering the claim(s) indefinite.
Claim(s) 11 recite(s) “each replacement”. There is lack of antecedent basis for this limitation in these claim(s), rendering the claim(s) indefinite.
Claim(s) 2-10 do not contain claim limitations that cure the indefiniteness of claim(s) 1, and therefore are also indefinite under 35 U.S.C. 112(b).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Schori “Delta.js — A JavaScript diff and patch engine for DOM trees”, Bachelor thesis retrieved from https://znerol.github.io/node-delta/bt-small.pdf and dated January 20, 2012, discusses merging two documents using flattened trees and patches.
Miraldo et al “An Efficient Algorithm for Type-Safe Structural Diffing” retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341717 and dated 26 July 2019, discloses merging two documents using patches.
Gu (US 20080215520 A1) discloses synchronizing trees and then flattening them.
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SANCHITA . ROY
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2146
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