DETAILED ACTION
The instant application having Application No. 18/574019 filed on 12/23/2023 is presented for examination by the examiner.
Claim 1-20 is/are pending in the application.
Claims 1, 5, 9 and 19-20 is/are independent claims.
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 .
Examiner Notes
Examiner cites particular columns and line numbers in the references as applied to the claims below for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested that, in preparing responses, the applicant fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the examiner.
Priority
As required by M.P.E.P. 201.14(c), acknowledgement is made of applicant’s claim for priority based on applications filed on 12/30/2021.
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Drawings
The applicant’s drawings submitted are acceptable for examination purposes.
Information Disclosure Statement
As required by M.P.E.P. 609, the applicant’s submissions of the Information Disclosure Statement dated 01/27/2025 and 03/26/2024 are acknowledged by the examiner and the cited references have been considered in the examination of the claims now pending.
Claim Objections
Claims 19-20 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 19 is objected to because of the following informalities: the “an electronic device … execute method of claim 4”. Claim 4 depends on claim 1. Accordingly, applicant might consider rewrite claim 19 to include full features of claims 1 and 4.
Claim 20 is objected to because of the following informalities: the “a computer-readable storage medium … to implement the method according to claim 4”. Claim 4 depends on claim 1. Accordingly, applicant might consider rewrite claim 20 to include full features of claims 1 and 4.
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.
Claims 10 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Regarding claims 10 and 20; claims 10 and 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claims is directed to non-statutory subject matter. Claim 10 and 20 recite “[a] computer-readable storage medium”. In view of the specification PGPUB, paragraph 0118, under a recent precedential opinion, the scope of the recited “computer readable storage medium” encompasses transitory media such as signals or carrier waves, where, as here the specification does not limit the computer readable storage medium to non-transitory forms. See Ex parte Mewherter, 107 USPQ2d 1857, 1862 (PTAB 2013) (precedential) (holding recited machine-readable storage medium ineligible under § 35 U.S.C. 101 since it encompassed transitory media). The Examiner respectfully suggests that the claim be amended to either “A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium” to make the claim statutory under 35 USC 101; (emphasis added).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9, and 11-19 are allowed.
Claims 10 and 20 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 101, set forth in this Office action.
The following prior art made of record and not relied upon is cited to establish the level of skill in the applicant’s art and those arts considered reasonably pertinent to applicant’s disclosure. See MPEP 707.05(c).
Prior arts:
US 2023/0030000 to Sinha
The desired state definition can also specify other types of information, such as the desired properties and features of VIM server 102 (e.g., name, security permissions, standalone hosts, target datastore for installation, whether HA is enabled, etc.) and the desired properties and features of each datacenter/cluster/host system in the virtual infrastructure topology (e.g., name, security permissions, whether host lifecycle management is enabled, whether HCI storage is enabled, whether HA is enabled, whether container management support (e.g., Kubernetes) is enabled, etc.). HCI storage refers to a storage paradigm in which the local storage resources of a cluster's host systems are aggregated into a virtual storage pool and made available for use by the cluster's storage clients (e.g., virtual machines (VMs) or containers). One example implementation of HCI storage is VMware vSAN.
US 2022/0141140 to Yang
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a resource management system, which includes a plurality of worker nodes and a master node that are connected to each other in communication. Each of the plurality of worker nodes and the master node includes a resource pool, a resource monitor, a collector agent module, a traffic steering inference module, a request processing module, an admission controller, and a threshold adjuster; and the master node further includes a data collector, an artificial intelligence (AI) computing module, and a load balancer. The resource pool is configured to divide a corresponding system resource into a sharable resource and a non-sharable resource. The resource monitor is configured to record usage status of the resource pool and generate resource usage monitoring data.
US 2021/0255927 to Kannan
One example of the assign 1114 action would be to assign a portion of solid-state storage memory for usage with a specific type of data. For example, a portion of memory with a lower read reliability, even after tuning, could be assigned to usage with data that does not require a high read reliability.
US 2020/0218580 to Kim
The DevOps manager, as a manager module of DevOps, provides a configuration manager 230 for provisioning a multi-cloud infrastructure, a metering manager 240 for managing a usage and cost of multi-cloud resources, a resource manager 250 for managing a resource status and settings of the multi-cloud, a monitoring manager 260 for collecting and managing container/infrastructure monitoring information, and a job manager 270 for a task of deployment, a server action, and a remote command in which various job tasks are combined and integrally performed and immediate performance, a performance time, and event occurrence are performance conditions.
The prior art of record does not disclose and/or fairly suggest at least claimed limitations recited in such manners in independent claim 1 "... calculating a Message Authentication Code (MAC) value of the ciphertext by utilizing a MAC key pre-stored and storing the ciphertext and the MAC value into the DRAM, in a case where an address corresponding to the data to be written being an isolated memory of the memory-isolated virtual machine is confirmed; decrypting data to be read to obtain a plaintext, when the CPU reads the data from the DRAM via the memory controller for the memory-isolated virtual machine; sending the plaintext to the CPU; and in a case where an address corresponding to the data to be read being an isolated memory of the memory-isolated virtual machine is confirmed, acquiring, from the DRAM, a stored original MAC value corresponding to the data to be read, calculating a new MAC value of the data to be read by utilizing the MAC key, and comparing the original MAC value with the new MAC value, wherein if the original MAC value and the new MAC value are equal to each other, the data is indicated to be integral, and if the original MAC value and the new MAC value are not equal to each other, the data is indicated to have been tampered with and an error signal is generated.” and similarly recited in such manners in other independent claims 9-10 and 19-20.
Conclusion
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/TUAN C DAO/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2198
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