DETAILED ACTION
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 .
1. This action is in response to the communication filed on May 9, 2024. Claims 1-27 were originally received for consideration. No preliminary amendments for the claims have been received.
2. Claims 1-27 are currently pending consideration.
Claim Objections
3. Claims 1, 12, 20, 21 and 23 are objected to because of the following informalities:
4. Claim 1 states in the second line “compromising.” This should be corrected to “comprising.”
5. Claim 12 states the “request.” This should be corrected to “requester.”
6. Claim 20 has multiple phrases in parentheses which should be removed and written as affirmative actions. The phrases are “(external or internal)” and “(per request, regular interval, or based on changes emitted from on chain events)” and (“e.g., changes for the better, worse, or changes that resulted in no net difference).”
7. Claim 21 discloses “(when possible)” in a parenthetical expression. The expression should be written in an affirmative expression.
8. Claim 23 discloses that a “change should be employed.” This language discloses that the change is not mandatory. 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.
9. Claims 1-27 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.
10. Claims 1 and 20 disclose that data is received from one or more requesting services, either external or internal. It is unclear what internal or external entities are sending the data.
11. Claim 1 discloses “obtaining any and all necessary external data from external application programming interface, or API, calls, direct review of blockchains, or access to any and all storage locations.” The term “any and all” renders the claims indefinite as this would open up an infinite number of external data and storage locations.
12. Claim 20 discloses “obtaining any and all necessary external data from external application programming interfaces, or APIs, calls, direct review of blockchains, or access to any and all storage.” The term “any and all” renders the claims indefinite as this would open up an infinite number of external data and storage locations.
13. Claim 25 discloses “wherein a duration of monitoring and maintenance of a score is set to meet contractual and legal requirements.” It is indefinite what these requirements would entail, rendering the claims indefinite.
14. Claim 2 recites the limitation "the assessment” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
15. Claim 3 recites the limitation “the request” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
16. Claim 4 recites “the request/result” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
17. Claim 5 recites the limitation “the requester” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
18. Claim 6 recites the limitation “the requester” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
19. Claim 9 recites the limitation “the request” in the 4th limitation. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
20. Claim 9 recites the limitation “the updated data.” There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It appears that this should be corrected to the “updated set of assessments.”
21. Claim 10 recites the limitation “remediation potential.” There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
22. Claim 12 recites the limitation “the request.” There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
23. Claim 17 recites the limitation “the requester” in the first line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
24. Claim 18 recites the limitation “the process” in the second line of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Conclusion
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/KAVEH ABRISHAMKAR/
10/23/2025Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2494