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
Applicant has amended claims 1, 6, 9-11, 13 and 14 in the amendment filed on 12/9/2025. Claims 1-14 are currently pending in the present application.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments filed on 12/9/2025 with respect to the claims 1-14 have been considered but they are moot in view of the new ground(s) of rejection.
Examiner’s Remarks
After further reviewed Applicant's arguments (i.e., pages 12-15 of the Applicant’s Remarks, and in light of the original specification, pages 3-66), the claimed amendment filed on December 9, 2025 overcomes the 35 U.S.C. § 112 and 101 rejections. The limitations as added to the independent claims 1, 13 and 14 included additional elements that integrate the abstract idea into a practical application that would make the claims eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
Claim Objections
Claim 6 is objected to because of the following informalities:
As per claim 6, the claim recites “a search condition database configured to store a plurality of search condition records in which past analysis target data created in the past and a past query used for extraction of the training data regarding the past analysis target data are associated with each other” which should be amended or written as “[[a]]the search condition database configured to store a plurality of search condition records in which past analysis target data created in the past and [[a]]the past query used for extraction of the training data regarding the past analysis target data are associated with each other”. Correction is respectfully 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 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
As per claims 1, 13 and 14; the claims recite “determining a data acquisition speed associated with the processor based at least in part on a clock speed of the processor, wherein the data acquisition speed comprises an indication of a number of pieces of the first supplementary candidate data acquirable from the training database per unit time” which the underlined feature renders the claims indefinite because it is unclear as whether the underlined feature is different from the underlined feature in the limitation of “estimating a number of pieces of first supplementary candidate data to be extracted from the training database according to the first supplementary query candidate”? Clarification or correction is respectfully required.
Note, the dependent claims 2-12 are also rejected because they depend on and/or do not remedy the deficiencies inherited by their parent claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-14 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the objection and the rejection as set forth in this Office action.
Reasons for Allowance
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
After further consideration of the prior arts of record and conducting different searches in PE2E - SEARCH, Similarity Search, Google Scholar, and ACM Digital Library, it appears that none of prior arts discloses, teaches or fairly suggests the limitations as a whole in the independent claims 1, 13 and 14.
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).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any nonprovisional extension fee (37 CFR 1.17(a)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/BAI D VU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163 1/30/2026