DETAILED ACTION
The following is a Non-Final Office action in response to communications received 9/1/26. Claim(s) 21 has(have) been canceled. Claim(s) 26 has(have) been amended. Therefore, claim(s) 1-20 and 22-27 is(are) pending and addressed below.
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 .
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.
Claim 26 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter.
As per claim(s) 26, the claimed system has been read in view of applicant's specification (the computer program product comprising code, [0061, 0062], A programmable apparatus which executes any of the above-mentioned computer program products, [0066], It will be understood that a computer may include a computer program product from a computer-readable storage medium, [0067], Any combination of one or more computer readable media may be utilized including but not limited to: a non-transitory computer readable medium for storage; an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor computer readable storage medium or any suitable combination of the foregoing; a portable computer diskette; a hard disk; a random access memory (RAM); a read-only memory (ROM); an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM, Flash, MRAM, FeRAM, or phase change memory); an optical fiber; a portable compact disc; an optical storage device; a magnetic storage device; or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, [0069]).
The examiner notes that the “non-transitory computer readable storage medium” is not being claimed. Instead the examiner notes that it is the “computer program product storing instructions” in the “non-transitory computer readable storage medium” that is being claimed and therefore the instructions stored on the medium and not the medium itself. The claimed apparatus appears to include elements which could be interpreted as including only software. Software is not one of the four categories of invention and therefore these claims are not statutory. Software is not a series of steps or acts and thus is not a process. Software is not a physical article or object and as such is not a machine or manufacture. Software is not a combination of substances and therefore not a composition of matter.
Since the specification describes "a computer program product" as comprising both transitory and non-transitory media, the claim encompasses both and is therefore non-statutory.
The examiner suggests amending the claim(s) to read as a "a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to" and amending the specification to remove the term “non-transitory” so as to not redefine a “non-statutory computer-readable medium” to include non-statutory embodiments.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20, 22-25, and 27 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Prior art was not found that explicitly teaches or fairly suggests “distributing, within the processor core, the one or more consistency units” in combination with “executing instructions, by the processor core, in an architecturally defined mode”, “detecting at least one error in the one or more consistency units that were distributed”, and “switching the processor core to a safe mode upon detection of the at least one error in the one or more consistency units”, as outlined in independent claims 1 and 27.
The remaining claims, not specifically mentioned, are allowed because they are dependent upon one of the claims mentioned above.
These limitations are considered allowable only in combination with all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 2/10/26 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
In response to applicant’s argument (see p. 6 of remarks) that the applicant has amended claim 26 in accordance with examiner’s recommendation, the examiner respectfully disagrees.
The examiner notes that the “non-transitory computer readable storage medium” is not being claimed. Instead the examiner notes that it is the “computer program product storing instructions” in the “non-transitory computer readable storage medium” that is being claimed and therefore the instructions stored on the medium and not the medium itself. The claimed apparatus appears to include elements which could be interpreted as including only software.
Conclusion
Rahbar (U.S. Patent No. 12,450,342) discloses using verification cores in an integrated circuit device that can be used to perform address checks and generate an alarm signal (col. 10, ln. 19-65, fig. 3, 5).
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/JOSHUA P LOTTICH/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2113
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