DETAILED ACTION
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 Objections
Claim 2 objected to because of the following informalities: Claim 2 recites “iteratively reining”, which appears to be a typo. 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 1-12 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 recites multiple limitations with insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim, e.g., at least “the at least one processor”, “the at least one machine learning model”, “the training data set”, and “the at least one operational variable”.
Claims 6 and 7 both recite the limitation "the first improvement error values". There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 10 recites the limitation "the set of error values”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 11 recites the limitation "the one or more performance outlier facilities”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 2-12 are dependent on claim 1, and are rejected for similar reasons.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the objections and 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 if nonelected claims 13-21 are cancelled.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
The prior art does not teach or suggest a method/system/apparatus for data set analysis having the combination of steps/elements in the claims including, among other elements, operation standard determination according to the outlier and outlier bias analysis of the claims.
Mitra US 2011/0246409 A1 discloses data set analysis including analysis of outliers.
Peace US 2004/0172401 discloses data set analysis including use of a random data set and identification of outliers.
Conclusion
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/BRYCE M AISAKA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2851
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