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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
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and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114.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 April 13, 2026 has been entered.
Response to Amendment
With respect to Applicant’s amendment of Claims 1, 11 and 20 with regards to 35 U.S.C. 101, the claim rejections with respect to the same have been withdrawn.
With respect to Applicant’s amendment of Claims 1, 11 and 20 with regards to 35 U.S.C. 103, the claim rejections with respect to the same have been withdrawn.
Claim Objections
Claims 1-20 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Claims 1, 11 and 20 recite on Lines 3, 9 and 6, respectively: “CPUs” which the Office believes should be “central processing units (CPUs)”.
Claims 2-10 and 12-19 are also objected to since they depend from objected Claims 1 and 11 respectively, and as such inherit the same deficiencies.
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 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claims 14 and 17 recites the limitation "the processor hardware" in Lines 1 and 2, respectively. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. The Office notes that “processor hardware” was previously recited in Independent Claim 11, although it was removed in the most recent amendment.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure is as follows:
Ohkawa et al. (US PGPUB 2024/0069941) discloses an information processing apparatus including a control plane and a processing function performing a microservice, wherein communications are sent regarding the start and end of processing of a microservice.
Millet et al. (US PGUB 2013/0042155) discloses a system and method for writing trace data to storage, wherein trace data is captured from processors and written to a trace buffer and further wherein the trace data includes instruction metrics.
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/JOANNE G MACASIANO/Examiner, Art Unit 2197
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