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 1-14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to the judicial exception of abstract ideas without significantly more. The claim(s) recite(s) abstract ideas as indicated by in-line comments below. This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application for reasons also indicated by in-line comments below. The claim(s) does/do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception for reasons also indicated by in-line comments below.
1. A method for analysis of wellbore data, comprising: obtaining acoustic data related to a wellbore;
preparing an acoustical data image from the acoustic data obtained from the wellbore (does not integrate into a practical application because insignificant extra-solution activity; not significantly more because insignificant extra-solution activity);
placing at least one positive data point on the acoustical data image (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical calculations);
placing at least one negative point based upon an assumed width of a third interface echo (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical relationships); and
performing an analysis of data, as bounded by the negative at least one negative point to identify a presence of a downhole third interface echo as well as the presence of a gas, a solid or a liquid at the downhole third interface echo through the use of a Large Foundation Model (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical calculations).
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acoustic data includes flexural data (abstract; merely further details of abstract subject matter).
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acoustic data includes pulse-echo data (abstract; merely further details of abstract subject matter).
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the placing the at least one negative point based upon an assumed width of the third interface echo includes two negative points (abstract; merely further details of abstract subject matter).
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the in preparing an acoustical data image from the acoustic data obtained from the wellbore.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the large foundation model is pretrained (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical relationships).
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the large foundation model is not pretrained (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical relationships).
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preparing of the acoustical data image from the acoustic data obtained from the wellbore has previously occurred (abstract; merely further details of abstract subject matter).
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preparing of the acoustical data image from the acoustic data obtained from the wellbore has previously occurred and has been previously been annotated (abstract; merely further details of abstract subject matter).
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the placing of the at least one positive data point is through an automated algorithm (abstract; mathematical concepts; mathematical calculations).
11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is performed at a wellsite (does not integrate into a practical application because insignificant extra-solution activity; not significantly more because insignificant extra-solution activity).
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is performed at a location remote from the wellsite (does not integrate into a practical application because insignificant extra-solution activity; not significantly more because insignificant extra-solution activity).
Regarding claim 13, see the foregoing rejection of claim 1, for all limitations except the following.
13. An article of manufacture comprising a non-volatile memory, the non-volatile memory configured with a set of instructions that is machine readable (does not integrate into a practical application because generic computer performing generic computer functions; not significantly more because generic computer performing generic computer functions), the set of instructions comprising a method of: ... .
14. The article of manufacture according to claim 13, wherein the article is of a form of one of a compact disk, a universal serial bus arrangement and a secure digital card (does not integrate into a practical application because insignificant extra-solution activity; not significantly more because insignificant extra-solution activity).
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/WALTER L LINDSAY JR/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2852
/GEOFFREY T EVANS/Examiner, Art Unit 2852
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