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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This office action is in response the preliminary amendment filed on 11/22/23, claims 8-10 are cancelled, claims 11-12 are amended, claims 13-23 are newly added therefore claims 1-7 and 11-23 are being examined.
Claim Objections
Claims 5-6 and 19-20 are objected to because of the following informalities: “cluster screening condition” should consistently read --cluster-selection condition-- although the limitations were being used interchangeably in applicant’s specification . 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 4-6 and 18-20 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.
As to claim 4, it is unclear what the limitation “match out a component set whose cluster-selection condition is consistent with the current-cluster label as a target component set” means. More specifically, it is unclear what the outcome or result of a “match out” and how is consistency determined. For examination purpose, the limitation is treated as the determination or identification of “a match between cluster-selection condition of a component set and the current-cluster label” which specifies suitability of cluster(s) for that component set and “designating the component set having the matching cluster-selection condition as a target component set” in light of applicant’s specification [paragraphs 23 and 58] for the remainder of this office action.
As to claims 5-6, these claims are rejected for similar reason with respect to the limitations “match out” and “consistent”.
Furthermore, as to claim 5, it is unclear what the limitations “regarding…as the target cluster…as the target component” means. More specifically, it is unclear what is achieve by “regarding” a cluster/component or what specific task is performed. For examination purpose, the limitation is treated as the identification or designation of “a cluster” as the target cluster and “a component” as the target component respectively.
As to claims 18-20, these claims are rejected for the same reason as claims 4-6 above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-6 and 18-20 would be allowable by overcoming the 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph rejection above and rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Automatically configuring computing cluster using configuration datasets stored within a management cluster, management cluster can detect status change of instantiated object and automatically take action such as automatically reconfigure the target object on the managed clusters based on the changed configuration data set/status change event [paragraphs 10, 12-13 and 25-26] was disclosed in US PG Pub. 2021/0263751. US PG Pub. 2021/0263751 was cited in applicant’s IDS filed on 11/22/23. Automated 1provisioning/scaling/reprovisioning/reconfiguration of containerized application align automatic movement of container instances across clusters and network creation for a cluster of application containers [paragraphs 34 and 46-51] was disclosed in US PG Pub. 2017/0257424. Automated updates in a cluster environment that includes containers [abstract; paragraph 57] was disclosed in US PG Pub. 2020/0153898. Generating events triggered by operations such as a cluster state change and logging the events in event queues was disclosed in US PG Pub. 2015/0074052. The prior arts of record when taken individually or in combination do not expressly teach or render obvious the invention as a whole as recited in in claims 1 and 11-12.
Neither a reference uncovered that would have provided a basis of evidence for asserting a motivation, nor one of ordinary skilled in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, knowing the teaching of the prior arts of record would have combined them to arrive at the present invention as recited in claims 1 and 11-12 as a whole.
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