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 .
DETAILED ACTION
The instant application having Application No. 18/754,364 is presented for examination by the examiner. Claims 1-13 are pending.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d). The certified copy has been received.
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.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as directed to the non-statutory subject matter of a computer program. The claims lack the necessary physical articles or objects to constitute a machine or manufacture within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 101. They are clearly not a series of steps or acts to be a process, nor are they a combination of chemical compounds to be a composition of matter. As such, they fail to fall within a statutory category. Claim 19 comprises computer readable medium. Computer readable medium include signals. The computer program needs to be embodied in a non-transitory medium that cannot be construed as signals.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 allowed.
The prior art is silent in explicitly teaching determining based on at least one given criterion whether there is sufficient correspondence between the intent and the changes to the security posture; in response to determining that this correspondence is not sufficient, determining at least one amendment to the given intent such that, when a new candidate network configuration is determined by the orchestration engine based on the amendment, there is a better correspondence between the amended intent and the resulting changes to the security posture of the network; and implementing the new candidate configuration in the communication network. The closest prior art, US 2024/0179183 teaches a similar intent-based architecture but does not explicitly teach the feedback loop which amends the network configuration to one that is more suitable for the network.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure is listed on the enclosed PTO-892 form.
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/MICHAEL R VAUGHAN/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2431