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 .
Claims 1-9 are presented for examination.
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 1-9 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.
As per claim 1:
In lines 4-8, the phrasing is unclear. Should the phrase in line 4-8 be replaced with –obtaining , from a terminal of a data viewer, a list including at least one issuer of endorsement data trusted by the viewer, when the terminal requesting a storage server to generate an endorsement graph including the connection of the endorsement data and the authenticity of the data endorsed over the Internet; and --? See also claim 8, lines 4-8 and claim 9, lines 2-7.
For claims 2-7:
The claims are also rejected as including the deficiency in the independent claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 8 and 9 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action. None of the prior art of record teaches or fairly suggests claimed features of obtaining, form a terminal of data viewer, the list of endorsement data issuer(s) trusted by the viewer responsive to the request, by the viewer, the endorsement graph that contains connection of the endorsement data and the authenticity of the data endorsed over the Internet; and then caching at least a part of the endorsement graph based on the obtained list. Consequently, claims 2-7 would also be allowable over the prior art of record.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Llore et al., US 9,886,701, teaches generating endorsement log [see col. 1, the last two lines].
Shenoy et al., US 2013/0097143, teaches aggregating endorsement data among users [see para. 0069].
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