DETAILED ACTION
This office action is in response to the correspondence filed on 12/04/2025. This application is a continuation or CIP of various applications that have provisional applications with earliest filing date of 05/15/2014. Claims 6, 20, 25-26, 30-40, 43, and 60-63 are pending and are examined.
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 .
Priority
Applicant's claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is acknowledged.
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and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114.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 12/04/2025 has been entered.
Response to Arguments
The amendments and/or arguments submitted by Applicants for the objection(s)/rejection(s)) listed below have been considered and are persuasive; thus, they have been withdrawn:
Double Patenting Rejection(s)
Regarding the Claim Objection(s), Applicants have addressed some of the prior objection but there are remaining issues that need to be addressed. Please see the Claim Objections section below.
Regarding the 35 U.S.C. §112(b) rejections, Applicants have addressed some of the prior rejections but there are remaining issues that need to be addressed. Please see the 35 U.S.C. §112(b) section below.
Claim Objections
Claims 63 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 63, “hosting a mechanism to unmap…” should be changed to a more distinctive name if this mechanism is different than the one recited in claim 60 to avoid any potential confusion.
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 39-40, and 43 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Regarding claims 39-40, and 43, they recite “the mechanism”. “…a detection mechanism” is recited in claim 6, which the claims are dependent upon; while “…a mechanism” is also defined in claim 25 which the claims are not dependent upon. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It is unclear if “the mechanism” should be changed to “the detection mechanism”.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6, 20, 25-26, 30-38, and 60-63 are allowed.
Claims 39-40, and 43 contains allowable subject matter but remain rejected under 112 rejections.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: prior art rejections are already resolved in a previous office action.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Vincent; Pradeep USPAT US 8924684 B1 Virtual memory management to reduce address cache flushing during I/O operations
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