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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 .
Specification
The disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities: Multiple hyperlinks exist in the specification; For example, paragraphs 15 and 54.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the claim is potentially directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim is system claims that does not define any structure. Under broadest reasonable interpretation, the claim can include non-tangible or transitory subject matter such as a computer program.
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.
Claim 13 is 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 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being incomplete for omitting essential structural cooperative relationships of elements, such omission amounting to a gap between the necessary structural connections. See MPEP § 2172.01. The omitted structural cooperative relationships are: Claim 13 is a system claim that lacks any recitation of any structural elements.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 and 14 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
In regards to the claims, carrying recorded communication data on a basis of a first communication matrix, where the data is sent via test system of an ECU under; where the test system is being connected via a first communication link to the ECU under test that is configured based on a second communication matrix. In addition, the cited prior art fails to teach, reading and comparing elements of the communication matrices, determining the data to be transformed and processing and sending the data as claimed.
Prior art Kwak et al. (US Publication 2023/0161931 A1) teaches with respect to figures 1 and 2, a simulation device 100 that includes a hardware in the A loop simulation (HILS) module 110 configured to perform a simulation using a physical electronic control unit (ECU), a storage 120 configured to store software in the loop simulation (SILS) software for performing a simulation using various types of information required for a simulation and a virtual ECU, an inputter 130 configured to receive a user input, a controller 140 configured to control a simulation using at least one of the HILS module 110 or the SILS software 125, a communication interface 150 configured to perform communication between the HILS module 110 and the SILS software 125, a signal generator 160 configured to provide an electrical signal to the HILS module 110, and a display 170 configured to display a result of the simulation (see paragraph 50).
Prior art Mizoguchi et al. (US Publication 2022/0058113 A1) teaches, with respect to figure 1, a configuration of a system including a test environment determination device 0 in this embodiment. The system as illustrated includes a test environment determination device 0, three hardware-in-the-loop simulator (HiLS) environments 1, and two software-in-the-loop simulator (SiLS) environments 2. Each of the HiLS environments 1 is connected to the test environment determination device 0, and each of the SiLS environments 2 is connected to the test environment determination device 0. In addition, each of the HiLS environments 1 is connected to an ECU 3 (see paragraph 29).
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Conclusion
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/JAY P PATEL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2466
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