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
Claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Drawings
Figures 5-6 of the drawing is objected to because details of the labelling and/or lines (i.e. dotted or dash) are not clearly visible or of sufficient quality. Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
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 1-20 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.
The following are unclear:
As to claim 1, it is unclear to the examiner whether “a plurality of processing threads” in coordination with the data structure is the same as an “auxiliary consumer thread” that process event message from the data structure and how “coordination” is achieved on the assumption that the processing threads were not subsequently “executed” or used in processing event message(s) from the data structure. For examination purpose, the limitations a “processing thread” and “auxiliary consumer thread” are treated as the same for the remainder of this office action.
Claims 2-9 depend on claim 1 and failed to obviate the deficiency of claim 1, therefore they are rejected for the same reason.
As to claims 10-18 and 19-20, these claims are rejected for the same reason as claims 1-9 above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 are allowable by overcoming the 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph rejection above.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
“Distributed Event Stream Processing with Non-deterministic Finite Automata” disclosed parallelizing data stream processing; receiving and allocating events in batches, insert reference of the events to priority queue where thread of a query engine can poll and return reference of event of lowest epoch that are subsequently output to an output queue; event senders or sender threads fetching baches of event references for serializing and deallocating output events; both priority and output queues are non-blocking [whole document]. “A review on Big Data real-time stream processing and its scheduling techniques” disclosed batch processing of stream data [whole document]. 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 independent claims 1, 10 and 19.
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 independent claims 1, 10 and 19 as a whole.
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/QING YUAN WU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2199
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