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.
Claims 1-21 are rejected under 35 USC 101 because the claimed invention is directed towards non-statutory subject matter.
The claims the following features which are types of mental processes that can be performed in the human mind, or by a human using a pen and paper and which are representative of data gathering and/or making observations: “applying anomaly detection to the set of observations to compute an anomaly score”.
The claims recite mathematical concepts describing a judicial exception such as “structuring the observation anomaly scores as a data matrix…”; “identifying at least one time period of the data matrix as anomalous”; “extracting causal information about the at least one time period”; “the angular relationship between a second-pass coordinate vector of the at least one time period and a second-pass coordinate vector of at least one entity of the set of networked entities”; “the second-pass coordinate vectors determined by applying a second-pass singular value decomposition (SVD) to a residuals matrix”; “the residuals matrix computed between the data matrix and an approximation of the data matrix by applying a first-pass truncated SVD to the data matrix”.
The judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. The claim(s) include(s) additional elements such as “receiving a set of observations…”. The judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because the additional elements simply merely perform the generic computer function of data gathering - MPEP 2106.05(g).
The claim(s) include(s) additional elements such as “a computer system…”; “one or more processors”; “memory” (see claim 14); and “non-transitory computer readable medium” (see claim 21). The judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because the additional limitations are no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using generic computing components. Accordingly, the additional elements do not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application because they do not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea.
The additional elements do not amount to significantly more than the judicial exception
because the additional elements when considered alone and in combination do not add
significantly more (i.e. do not at an inventive concept) to the exception. The remaining claims are addressed by similar rationale as above.
CONCLUSION
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: US 20200021496.
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/RYAN J JAKOVAC/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2445
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