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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 § 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 and 15 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. Claim 1 recites a first and second iterative processes for generating a first signature and a second signature respectively. The claim further recites based on the two iterative processes defines a first and a second true positive signature set and a first and second false positive signature set respectively. These limitations would at least put the reader in doubt because it is unclear how these signature sets are related to the initial first and second signatures. A similar limitation also occurs in claim 15. Please clarify.
Claim 1 further recites the first identifiers being generated in correlation to each other, in lines 5-6; the second identifiers being generated in correlation to each other, in lines 14-15; and wherein the second identifiers of the second signature are generated in de-correlation to the first identifiers of the first signature, in lines 20-21. These requirements would at least put the reader in doubt because the claim does not define how this correlation or de-correlation should be measured and which degree of correlation or de-correlation the identifiers are supposed to have in order to satisfy the requirements. A similar limitation also occurs in claim 15. Please clarify.
Since claims 2-14 and 16-20 are directly or indirectly depend on claims 1 and 15 respectively, they are also rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, for the same reasons set forth above for claims 1 and 15.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The prior art to: Odinaev (US 2023/0230350 A1) at paragraphs 0117-0121 discloses “The generation of the signature is executed in an iterative manner that includes multiple iterations, each iteration may include an expansion operations that is followed by a merge operation. The expansion operation of an iteration is performed by spanning elements of that iteration. By determining, per iteration, which spanning elements (of that iteration) are relevant—and reducing the power consumption of irrelevant spanning elements . . . . generating a signature of a media unit . . . . receiving or generating sensed information. The sensed information may be a media unit of multiple objects.”; Raicheigauz, et al. (2020/0167672 A1) disclose a method for detecting road elements that may include (a) detecting predefined identifiers of road elements, in road related information sensed by vehicles; (b) detecting potential identifiers of road elements that differ from the predefined identifiers of road elements, by processing road related information that was acquired by the vehicles during relevant time windows that are related to the detecting of the predefined identifiers; (c) finding actual identifiers of road elements out of the potential identifiers; wherein the findings is based, at least in part, on road related information that was acquired by the vehicles outside the relevant time windows; and (d) updating a database with the actual identifiers (See the Abstract); and Nakirikanti, et al. (2020/0088534 A1) provide telematics management platform to generate and provide, to a vehicle or a user device associated with the vehicle, an alert indicating that the vehicle is in or approaching an accident-prone zone. For example, the telematics management platform can obtain historical accident data associated with accidents in a geographic region. In this case, the telematics management platform can perform multiple iterations of a clustering technique to identify and/or classify geographic areas within the geographic region as either sparse accident-prone zones or dense accident-prone zones (See paragraph 0010).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. US Patent Application Publication Numbers: 2020/0088534, 2020/0167672, and 2023/0230350.
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/DANIEL G MARIAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2675
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