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
The following action is in response to the communication(s) received on 03/11/2024.
As of the claims filed 03/11/2024:
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claims 1, 11, and 18 are independent claims.
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.
Claims 1, 11, and 18 recite details for one of the conditional embodiment “and when the hash of the first output and the hash of the second output are not identical,” which include “pausing…; identifying…; deleting…; resuming…; and mirroring….” However, the claims do not provide disclosure for the alternate embodiment in the event when the hashes of the first and second outputs are identical. Additionally, the claims further recite, “identifying a latest timestamp when a hash of the first output and a hash of the second output are identical,” which suggest there was a point in time when the hashes were identical, but as mentioned above, there is no disclosure in what the claims perform in this embodiment.
At least for these reasons, the metes and bounds of the claims are indefinite.
Claims 2-10, 12-17, and 19-20 are rejected at least by virtue of dependency on their respective parent claims identified as indefinite.
Claims 2 and 12 recite, “and when the AI-based operation/search ends, collapsing the quantum circuit.” Similarly to above, the disclosure does not reveal what the claimed invention does in the alternate embodiment when the AI-based operation does not end. Claims 2 and 12 also fail to disclose the metes and bounds of the invention and thus are indefinite.
Claims 3 and 13 are rejected at least by virtue of dependency on their respective parent claims identified as indefinite.
Claims 10 and 17 recite, “adding a quantum circuit to a quantum thread when a hashing task has a duration that is longer than a threshold duration; and adding a quantum thread when a hashing task has a volume that is greater than a threshold volume.” Similarly to above, the disclosure does not reveal what the claimed invention does in the alternate embodiment when the hashing task does not have a volume that is greater than a threshold volume. For these reasons, Claims 10 and 17 also fail to disclose the metes and bounds of the invention and thus are indefinite.
Additionally, since the metes and bounds of the invention could not be determined for the reasons provided above, the art rejection analysis could not be performed on claims 1-20.
Conclusion
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/J.H./Examiner, Art Unit 2122
/MICHAEL H HOANG/PRIMARY EXAMINER, Art Unit 2122
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