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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 1-9 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.
Claim 1 recites the following limitations: “writing the data from the one or more storage devices to a first memory location in pinned memory accessible by a vector processor…”, “copying the data from the first memory location in the pinned memory to a second memory location in main memory…”, “the second location in main memory not being accessible by the vector processor via the data bus, wherein the pinned memory is unified memory which is physically located in the main memory,”. These limitations state that the pinned memory is part of main memory and that the vector processor can access the pinned memory but not the main memory. Further [0029]-[0030] of the specification includes the following: “However, in some cases, the memory location may be in main memory (that is, memory not accessible by a vector processor)” further indicating that main memory is not accessible by the vector processor. If, as now claimed, the pinned memory is part of the main memory and the main memory is not accessible by the vector processor, then the pinned memory is also not accessible by the vector processor. Therefore, the claim limitations are contradicting each other and the vector processor will not be able to perform invertible transforms on the data, as claimed. Thus the scope of the claim language is now unclear.
Further claim 1 recites the phrase “the pinned memory is unified memory”. It is unclear what is meant by the term “unified” in this limitation. Paragraph [0100] of the specification states that virtual memory is unified and [0015] states that the pinned memory can be unified memory. But is not clear what it means for the pinned memory to be unified.
Claim 6 has the same issues as claim 1 above and the remaining claims are rejected by virtue of their dependence upon a rejected base claim.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/MICHAEL ALSIP/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2139
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