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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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim(s) 1 - 23 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (i.e., abstract idea) without significantly more.
The claim(s) recite(s) a method/system/medium comprising: accessing a graph comprising nodes connected by edges, wherein: a first subset of the nodes are patient nodes each representing a corresponding patient, wherein each patient is associated with one or more healthcare providers, and a second subset of the nodes are patient health data nodes each representing health data of a corresponding patient, wherein the health data of each patient health data node is associated with at least one of the one or more healthcare providers; generating one or more subgraphs based on the graph, comprising, for each subgraph: identifying the patient nodes and the patient health data nodes in the graph that are associated with a particular one of the healthcare providers, and generating the subgraph comprising the identified nodes; generating, by a subgraph neural network, healthcare provider data structures, each healthcare provider data structure based on a respective one of the subgraphs, wherein each healthcare provider data structure has a lower dimension than the corresponding subgraph wherein generating a particular healthcare provider data structure comprises: generating a set of anchor patches the graph, each anchor patch representing a random sample of the nodes and the edges of the graph; providing one or more messages from the set of anchor patches to the subgraph, the one or more messages encoding properties of at least one anchor patch from the set of anchor patches onto the subgraph; and generating, based on the one or more messages for the subgraph, the particular healthcare provider data structure; and healthcare provider data structure from the healthcare provider data structures to a model…
… under its broadest reasonable interpretation, as noted MPEP 2106.04(a)(2): The enumerated grouping of abstract ideas are defined as: 1) Mathematical concepts and Mental Process.
This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because the claim recites general computer components a computing device and memory. The claim(s) does/do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because they only recite general computer components that does not provide any significant capability that once rendered would allow the invention to provide a practical application.
Conclusion
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/CHIKAODILI E ANYIKIRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2487
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