DETAILED ACTION
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and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114.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 3/26/2026 has been entered.
Claim 11 has been amended. Claims 21-30 have been added. Claims 11-13 and 15-30 are pending.
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Regarding the previously pending 35 USC 101 rejection, the claims as a whole, recite additional elements that integrate the judicial exception into a practical application, under Prong Two of Step 2A of the Alice analysis.
Specifically, amended independent claim 11 recites “querying the knowledge graph using the data profile of the target factory to identify a templatized data profile based on comparisons that comprise at least one of a lexical similarity of field names, a count of unique values, or detection of Boolean fields together with the factory description metadata; in response to identifying the templatized data profile, by an automated data quality checker outputting a quality check indicating a vouch for the target factory and invoking an automated business logic configurator to apply corresponding templatized business terms and invoking an automated business data configurator to apply corresponding templatized business data configurator logics to generate business data with business tags that align the target factory's IT data with the templatized business terms, thereby transforming a structure and semantics of a data catalogue of the target factory; and in response to failing to identify the templatized data profile, by the automated data quality checker outputting a quality check indicating an anomaly of the target factory”.
Claim Objections
Claim 11 is objected to because of the following informalities: Claim 11 recites “an anomaly of the target factory”, however paragraph 0059 of the specification recites “However, if an appropriate template t was not found in Step 2003-4, then the flow sets Automated Data Quality Checker 20033 output as 'Bad Quality'. This means that the data profile is inconsistent with what had been observed earlier and hence is an anomaly”. As a result, the anomaly seems to be related to the data profile. Clarification is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 11-13 and 15-30 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Amended claim 11 recites “generate business data with business tags that align the target factory's IT data with the templatized business terms, thereby transforming a structure and semantics of a data catalogue of the target factory”.
As an initial point, the specification fails to mention “transforming”, ”semantics” or “transforming a structure and semantics”. Additionally, paragraph 0051 of the specification recites “To understand this, consider the corresponding business data shown in FIG. 12. Note that it has added business tags on the IT data based on the information from the business terms and the configuration logic is in how the tags are placed. Depending on the exact nature and the degree of generalizability of this logic (for e.g., always assign the term with the greatest number of unique occurrences in the IT data profile term to the business term 'Serial Number'), business logic can thereby be clustered.”
Following, the specification merely discloses adding business tags, thereby clustering the business logic. Here, the mere addition of a business tag does not equate to “transforming” a structure and semantics. Clarification is required. Dependent claims 12, 13 and 15-30 are rejected based upon the same rationale.
Conclusion
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/ANDRE D BOYCE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3623 April 4, 2026