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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.
Claim 1 – 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.
Claim 1 lines 5 – 6 recites the limitation “the probabilities of event types.” This limitation lacks antecedent basis rendering it indefinite. For claim interpretation purposes this limitation is read as “probabilities of event types.”
Claim 2 line 9 recites the limitation “the total number of log messages.” This limitation lacks antecedent basis rendering it indefinite. For claim interpretation purposes this limitation is read as “a total number of log messages.”
Claim 13 line 3 recites the limitation “the log messages.” This limitation lacks antecedent basis rendering it indefinite. For claim interpretation purposes this limitation is read as “log messages.”
Claim 13 line 7 recites the limitation “the applications.” This limitation lacks antecedent basis rendering it indefinite. For claim interpretation purposes this limitation is read as “applications.”
Claims 2 – 12 and 14 – 18 depend on indefinite claims 1 and 13 and are therefore also indefinite for their respective indefinite parent claims.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 1 - 18 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Other References Cited Not Relied Upon
Xue et al. (US 2021/0065066) discloses time-to-event predictions based on log likelihoods of events happening at particular event times.
Megahed et al. (US 2017/0161660) discloses after selecting log entries with loss events from collection of log entries an equations is used that determines if a probability threshold for loss events is exceeded.
Maeda et al. (US 2019/01559678) discloses event transition model states corresponding to event records, with event transition probabilities between states is measured.
Conclusion
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/CRAIG C DORAIS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2198
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