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 .
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Cooley US 20220147569, in view of Barkol US 20200258511.
For claim 20, Cooley discloses:
A computer-implemented method for creating a user-specific representation of associations between data assets, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a plurality of data assets from a plurality of sources, the data assets having one or more characteristics (par. 0021 and 0032: Plurality of cloud storage and/or computing systems disclosed for storing data generated in a system environment; par. 0029: use of system in healthcare environment disclosed);
storing the plurality of data assets into a data catalog (par. 0056: Acquired date stored in graph database).
Cooley fails to explicitly disclose:
“determining that a user has accessed, via a user device, an executive-level profile associated with an entity;
generating an executive-level governance graph depicting one or more factors associated the plurality of data assets; and
displaying, via a graphical user interface associated with the user device, the executive-level governance graph depicting the one or more factors associated with the plurality of data assets.”
However, in a related field Barkol discloses:
“determining that a user has accessed, via a user device, an executive-level profile associated with an entity (par. 0021, 0022: User requests viewing “summary”/aggregate presentation of records);
generating an executive-level governance graph depicting one or more factors associated the plurality of data assets (par. 0022: System processes request and retrieves parameters from records); and
displaying, via a graphical user interface associated with the user device, the executive-level governance graph depicting the one or more factors associated with the plurality of data assets (par. 0023: Responsive to request & retrieved parameters, graph generated).”
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill before effective filing date of instant claims to have introduced Barkol’s teachings. The motivation to combine would have been to visualize data sets for consumption by a user (Barkol, par. 0097, 0119).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1 and 13 are allowed. Claims 2-12 and 14-10 are allowable by virtue of their dependency.
Conclusion
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/CLAYTON R WILLIAMS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2443
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