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 .
The action is responsive to the following communication: an application filed on 03/06/2023 where:
Claims 1-8 are currently pending.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-6 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 7 and 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yamashita (US 2015/0039937).
Regarding claim 1, Yamashita teaches: An information processing apparatus (fig. 1, image forming apparatus 1) comprising:
a processor (fig. 1, CPU 101),
wherein a first power-off state (fig. 4 and fig. 5, S405, perform restart processing), which accompanies a reset of hardware (fig. 5, [0043], Next, in step S503, the CPU 101 executes reset processing. Next, in step S504, the CPU 101 executes initialization processing on all hardware blocks.) and a restart of a program ([0043], performed at this stage by the CPU 101 loading a boot loader and an OS in order from the HDD 102 onto the RAM 103.), and a second power-off state (fig. 4 and fig. 6, perform power saving state transition) , which does not accompany the reset of the hardware and the restart of the program, are defined as states of a power supply of the information processing apparatus (fig. 4 and fig. 6, [0046-0047, Generally, the opening/initialization processing of the firmware takes up most of the startup time of the CPU 101. Since this processing is omitted in the below-described restoration processing from a power saving state, startup is expected to be quicker. [0047] FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an image forming apparatus control method according to the present exemplary embodiment. This example shows details of the transition to a power saving state and the restoration processing performed in FIG. 4. A big difference between this processing and the above restart processing is that the data on the RAM 103 is maintained throughout the whole flow, which enables the time taken to read the data to be substantially shortened.), and
wherein the processor is configured to change, if an operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed after an error occurs in the information processing apparatus ([0033-0035], first, in step S401, the CPU 101 detects error information. Error information detection is realized by the CPU 101 executing an error management module (stored in the HDD 102) to acquire an error ID value that uniquely indicates the detected error.), a state of the power supply to the first power-off state or the second power-off state in accordance with a type of error that has occurred in the information processing apparatus (S401, detect error information S401, based on the error the shutdown type is selected step S402 in fig. 4).
Claims 7 and 8 are rejected for reasons similar to claim 1 above.
Conclusion
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/ANDREW H LAM/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2682