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 .
Status of Claims
Claims 1-21 are pending.
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 17-21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Claims 17-21 are not to a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. In the state of the art, transitory signals are commonplace as a medium for transmitting computer instructions and thus, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary and given a broadest reasonable interpretation, the scope of a “machine-readable storage medium” covers transitory machine-readable medium such as a signal per se. A transitory signal does not fall within the definition of a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matters.
The phrase “a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium” is suggested.
Reasons for Allowable Subject Matter
Regarding claim 1, none of the closest prior art of record, alone or in combination , teaches a method to provide active noise cancellation, the method comprising a step of “receiving a set of reference signals representing a current reference condition for a vehicle, the set of reference signals being defined in m dimension” in combination with the steps of “compressing the set of reference signals to a latent space vector being defined in n dimensions, wherein m is greater than n; matching the latent space vector to a cluster group stored in a database, the cluster group representing a previously encountered reference condition; retrieving configuration properties associated with the matched cluster group; and generating an anti-noise signal based on the retrieved configuration properties”.
Independent claim 9 recites a system performs similar steps as recited in method claim 1 and thus is allowable for the similar reasons as those of method claim 1.
Dependent claims 2-8 and 10-16 are allowable for at least the same reasons as their base claims 1 and 9 respectively due to virtue of their dependencies.
Conclusion
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/VIVIAN C CHIN/
Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2695
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