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 .
DETAILED ACTION
The following is a Non-Final Office Action in response to communications received February 1, 2023. Claims 1-20 are pending and examined.
Response to Amendments and Arguments
As to the rejection of Claims 2-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 101, Applicant’s arguments and amendments are moot as these claims have been cancelled.
As to the rejection of Claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 101, Applicant’s amendments have been fully considered but are not persuasive and the rejection is thereby maintained as detailed below.
As to the rejection of Claims 2-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, Applicant’s arguments and amendments are moot as these claims have been cancelled.
As to the rejection of Claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, Applicant’s arguments and amendments have been fully considered and are persuasive. This rejection has thereby been withdrawn.
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, 24, and 32 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.
The term “increasing consensus robustness” in claims 1, 24, and 32 is a relative term which renders the claim indefinite. The term “increasing consensus robustness” is not defined by the claim, the specification does not provide a standard for ascertaining the requisite degree, and one of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of the invention.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1, and 21-39 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea without significantly more.
(Step 1) The claims recite a system, method, and product. For the purposes of this analysis, representative claim 1 is addressed.
(Step 2A, prong 1) Abstract ideas are in bold below, and represents a mental process, as a method of validating identification information when opening an account. Validating user identification information in order to open an account is akin to a mental process.
A system for facilitating increase of aggregate staking to improve blockchain resilience of a blockchain network against malicious validations from consensus attacks by predicting cryptographic asset distributions for a future period of time using one or more artificial intelligence models, the system comprising: one or more processors[[;]] and one or more non-transitory media in connection with receiving time-series data over a past period of time corresponding to a stakeable cryptographic asset on a blockchain having a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, ; inputting a representation of the time-series data into a machine learning model to obtain a prediction of the cryptographic asset distributions for the future period of time wherein a cryptographic asset distribution occurs in response to a respective cryptographic asset being used to secure a respective blockchain; inputting user characteristic data, indicating one or more characteristics about a user with one or more cryptographic assets, and; into a recommendation model to generate a staking recommendation, related to consensus validation of blockchain operations on the blockchain using the stakeable cryptographic asset, to increase consensus robustness of the blockchain; and causing, on a user interface, display of the staking recommendation to increase consensus robustness of the stakeable cryptographic asset.
(Step 2A prong 2) The additional elements are considered as follows:
“one or more artificial intelligence models, the system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory media it” this sever is claimed at a high level of generality, it receives the information, performs the abstract idea, and outputs the results.
“inputting a representation of the time-series data into a machine learning model to obtain” This is merely “apply it” this sever is claimed at a high level of generality, it receives the information, performs the abstract idea, and outputs the results.
“receiving time-series data” This is also an extra solution activity, akin to data gathering.
“causing, on a user interface, display of the staking recommendation to increase consensus robustness of the stakeable cryptographic asset” This is also an extra solution activity, akin to data gathering.
(Step 2B) The claim(s) does/do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration into a practical application, the additional elements amount to no more than mere instructions to apply the abstract idea of using generic computer components. The claim elements when considered separately and in an ordered combination, do not add significantly more than implementing the abstract idea of validating user identification information in order to open an account, over a generic computer network with generic computing elements, and generic hardware.
Independent claims 24 and 32 are rejected under the same reasoning as claim 1. Analysis of dependent claims 25-31, and 33-39, recited additional details which only further narrow the abstract idea and do not add any additional features, alone or in combination, that would provide a practical application or provide significantly more.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. 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 extension fee 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 date of this final action.
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/IRENE KANG/
Examiner, Art Unit 3695
3/5/2026
/MATTHEW S GART/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3696