DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This is in reply to papers filed on 2023-07-01. Claims 1-20 are pending. Claims 1, 9, 17 is/are independent.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 5, 13, 19 is 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.
Information Disclosure Statement PTO-1449
The Information Disclosure Statement(s) submitted by applicant on 2024-11-27, 2023-10-11 has/have been considered. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.97. Form PTO-1449 signed and attached hereto.
Summary of Claim Rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 102
The following table summarizes the rejections set forth in detail below of the claims over the prior art.
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Claim Rejections - 35 U.S.C. § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of AIA 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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
Claim(s) 1-4, 6-12, 14-18, 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by U.S. Publication 20220012188 to Durham et al. (hereinafter "Durham '188"). Durham '188 is prior art to the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1).
Per claim 1 (independent):
Durham '188 discloses a processor device (processor(s), memory, computer readable media, storage, executable instructions [Durham '188 ¶ 0204-0208, 0230-0234])
Durham '188 discloses an instruction decoder to decode a single instruction (decoder [Durham '188 ¶ 0206]; memory instruction also performs integrity check [Durham '188 ¶ 0070, 0075])
Durham '188 discloses to set an integrity check value (ICV) corresponding to a destination location in a memory (computes and stores ICV based on pointer and/or contents for memory location [Durham '188 ¶ 0038, 0050, 0055])
Durham '188 discloses execution circuitry coupled to the instruction decoder, the execution circuitry to perform one or more operations corresponding to the single instruction (executes instruction [Durham '188 ¶ 0069-0070, 0130, 0140, 0142])
Durham '188 discloses storing data indicated by the single instruction into the destination location, and storing the ICV in the memory (stores data and ICV to memory [Durham '188 ¶ 0193, 075, 0145, 0022, 0069-0070])
Per claim 2 (dependent on claim 1):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 1 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses performing an integrity check before storing the ICV (memory instruction also performs integrity check [Durham '188 ¶ 0070, 0075])
Per claim 3 (dependent on claim 1):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 1 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses the ICV is invalid ("If the integrity check determines the data has been modified/corrupted, then the memory operation may be blocked or aborted, and/or any suitable fault may be raised." [Durham '188 ¶ 0217])
Per claim 4 (dependent on claim 1):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 1 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses generating the ICV based at least in part on the indicated data (computes and stores ICV based on pointer and/or contents for memory location [Durham '188 ¶ 0038, 0050, 0055])
Per claim 6 (dependent on claim 4):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 4 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses determining whether a memory region including the destination location is initialized (initializes memory location upon allocation using particular initialization values [Durham '188 ¶ 0127, 0130, 0140, 0142, 0222])
Per claim 7 (dependent on claim 6):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 6 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses setting a flag bit to indicate that the memory region including the destination location is not initialized (initializes memory location upon allocation using particular initialization values [Durham '188 ¶ 0127, 0130, 0140, 0142, 0222])
Per claim 8 (dependent on claim 1):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 1 above, incorporated herein by reference
Durham '188 discloses copying the indicated data from a source location in the memory, and performing an integrity check on the indicated data (stores data and ICV to memory [Durham '188 ¶ 0193, 075, 0145, 0022, 0069-0070]; memory instruction also performs integrity check [Durham '188 ¶ 0070, 0075])
Per claim 9 (independent):
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 1 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 10 (dependent on claim 9):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 9 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 2 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 11 (dependent on claim 9):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 9 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 3 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 12 (dependent on claim 9):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 9 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 4 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 14 (dependent on claim 12):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 12 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 6 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 15 (dependent on claim 14):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 14 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 7 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 16 (dependent on claim 9):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 9 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 8 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 17 (independent):
Durham '188 discloses a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing at least a single instruction which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform a method (processor(s), memory, computer readable media, storage, executable instructions [Durham '188 ¶ 0204-0208, 0230-0234])
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 1 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 18 (dependent on claim 17):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 17 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 4 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Per claim 20 (dependent on claim 18):
Durham '188 discloses the elements detailed in the rejection of claim 18 above, incorporated herein by reference
The remaining limitations of the claim(s) correspond(s) to features of claim(s) 6 and 7 and the claim(s) is/are rejected for the reasons detailed with respect to those claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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/THEODORE C PARSONS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2494
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