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 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. Claims 17-20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim recites, inter alia , “A computer readable medium comprising instructions stored therein …” After close inspection, the Examiner respectfully notes that the disclosure, as a whole, does not specifically identify what may be included as a computer readable storage medium and what is not to be included as a computer readable storage medium. An Examiner is obliged to give claims their broadest reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification during examination. The broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim drawn to a computer readable medium (also called machine readable medium and other such variations) typically covers forms of non-transitory tangible media and transitory propagating signals per se in view of the ordinary and customary meaning of computer readable media, particularly when the specification is silent. See MPEP 2111.01. When the broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim covers a signal, per se , the claim must be rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as covering non-statutory subject matter. Therefore, given the silence of the disclosure and the broadest reasonable interpretation, the computer readable storage medium of the claim may include transitory propagating signals. As a result, the claim pertains to non-statutory subject matter. However, the Examiner respectfully submits a claim drawn to such a computer readable medium that covers both transitory and non-transitory embodiments may be amended to narrow the claim to cover only statutory embodiments to avoid a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 by adding the limitation “non-transitory” to the claim. Such an amendment would typically not raise the issue of new matter, even when the specification is silent because the broadest reasonable interpretation relies on the ordinary and customary meaning that includes signals per se . For additional information, please see the Patents’ Official Gazette notice published February 23, 2010 (1351 OG 212). Reasons for allowance The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: Independent claims 1 and 9 present limitation as a whole that are allowable over the prior art, recites the uniquely distinct features for " detect an occurrence of a triggering condition, in response to the detection of the occurrence of the triggering condition, retrieve one or more digital documents from an endpoint and execute an artificial intelligence AI model on the one or more digital documents and the digital manual to generate an updated digital manual based on differences in content between the digital manual and the one or more digital documents, store the updated digital manual in the memory, retrieve a query which includes an identifier of a rule from a software application, generate a response to the query based on execution of the AI model on the identifier of the rule and the updated digital manual, and provide the response to the software application ” as well as all in combination with all limitations in the independent claims and the enabling portions of the specification. The closest prior art of Groenewegen et al. US 2024/0152368 discloses facilitate human review of autocreated editing suggestions, e.g., suggestions from a machine learning model for editing source code. Upon receiving a suggestion, an editor switches to a user interface review mode displaying an aspect of the suggestion. Suggestions are illustrated using one or more summary, diff, in-place, or as-if views. ..--Abstract, either singularly or in combination, fail to anticipate or render the above underlined limitation obvious. The dependent claims further limit the independent claims and are considered allowable on the same basis as the independent claims as well as for the further limitations set forth. Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled "Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance." Claims 1-16 and 17 are allowed. Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to FILLIN "Examiner name" \* MERGEFORMAT DANIEL T TEKLE whose telephone number is FILLIN "Phone number" \* MERGEFORMAT (571)270-1117 . The examiner can normally be reached FILLIN "Work Schedule?" \* MERGEFORMAT Monday-Friday 8:00-4:30 ET . Examiner interviews are available via telephone, in-person, and video conferencing using a USPTO supplied web-based collaboration tool. To schedule an interview, applicant is encouraged to use the USPTO Automated Interview Request (AIR) at http://www.uspto.gov/interviewpractice. If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner’s supervisor, FILLIN "SPE Name?" \* MERGEFORMAT William Vaughn can be reached at FILLIN "SPE Phone?" \* MERGEFORMAT 571-272-3922 . The fax phone number for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is 571-273-8300. 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