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
Claims 1-5, 7-8, 10-15, 17-18 and 20 are pending in the application.
Specification
The amendment to the disclosure as well as the original disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities: configuration rules as shown in Fig. 3 is recited in plural, such that the recitations of “the configuration rule 336” [paragraph 74] and “a configuration rule 336” [paragraphs 59, 61 and 70] should read --the configuration rules 336-- or if referring to a particular instance, --one of the configuration rules 336--.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Objections
Claims 1, 4, 11, 14 and 20 are objected to because of the following informalities:
As to claims 1, 4, 11, 14 and 20 - all references to “the characteristics” should read --the one or more characteristics--.
As to claims 1, 11 and 20 – semicolon at the end of the step “in response to the execution of the additional workload at the information handling system” should be replace with a colon such that subsequent steps further indented under this step are further limits the step.
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 5, 7-8, 15 and 17-18 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 following lack antecedent basis:
Claims 5 and 15 – lines 6 and 8, "the audio workload”.
Claims 7-8 and 17-18 are rejected based on dependencies.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-4, 10-14 and 20 are allowed.
Claims 5, 7-8, 15 and 17-18 are allowable by overcoming the 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph rejection above.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Characterizing audio/video streaming related workloads in training ML models and ensuring synchronization of audio and video was disclosed in US Patent 10,904,488.
The prior arts of record when taken individually or in combination do not expressly teach or render obvious, in the context of the claims taken as a whole, the limitation of “automatically increasing the speed of the fan…while maintaining synchronization of the audio stream to a corresponding video stream” as a whole as recited in independent claims 1, 11 and 20.
Neither a reference uncovered that would have provided a basis of evidence for asserting a motivation, nor one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention would have combined them to arrive at the present invention as recited in the context of independent claims 1, 11 and 20 as a whole.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed on 2/17/26 have been fully considered but are not persuasive.
In the remarks, Applicant argued in substance that:
Applicant has amended the specification, hence the objection is moot.
Amendment to or cancellation of claims 5-6, 9, 15-16 and 19 render the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § l 12(b) moot.
Examiner respectfully traversed Applicant's remarks:
As to point (a), the examiner further clarifies that the reference number “336” refers to a plurality of “rules” such that the amendment to the specification failed to address the objection in its entirety.
As to point (b), applicant’s amendment failed to address the rejection in its entirety, therefore portion of the rejection that have not been addressed is maintained by the examiner.
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/QING YUAN WU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2199