DETAILED ACTION
Claims 23 is pending. Claims 1-22 are canceled. This application is a continuation of PCT Application No. PCT/IB2017/051964 filed on April 5, 2017, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 62/319,178, filed on April 6, 2016, and U.S. Application Serial No. 62/346,856, filed on June 7, 2016.
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 § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim 23 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by 20170090929 (hereinafter Muttik)
Regarding claim 23, Muttik discloses a non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for customized code execution flow integrity for a controller, comprising:
embedding, in a controller, customized and controller-specific code execution flow inspection code, the controller-specific code execution flow inspection code being configured to: (Fig. 4, par. [0010]-[0018] and [0077]-[0079] disclose a four-core CPU having a program flow monitoring code called CMU which can be an integrated part of the CPU, using an execution control data (ECD) for each program to be analyzed to ensure that they are consistent with the expected ECD. The analysis extracts execution control data (ECD) about the expected software behavior, including code flow and data flows).
compare a request for execution of code by the controller to a map of a permitted sequence of calls between controller code elements executable by the controller, the permitted sequence of calls including at least one process call or at least one function call (Figs. 5-6 and par. [0081]-[0100] disclose the correctness monitoring unit CMU compares the instruction pointers, function’s addresses and data types to the ECD’s control and data flows. If there is a mismatch it raises an exception);
determine whether the request for execution of code by the controller conflicts with the map of the permitted sequence (same citation of Figs. 5-6 and related text);
implement, based on the determination, a control action to prevent the
implement, based on the determination, a control action to prevent the request for execution of code by the controller that conflicts with the map of the permitted sequence of calls from being executed on the controller (Fig. 6 and related text disclose an exception is raised if a mismatch is found).
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/TRI M TRAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2432
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