DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to application 18/780.060 filed on July 22, 2024.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
Claims 13-14 are pending and herein considered.
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.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 USC § 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 USC 101 because the claims are/is directed to an abstract idea without being integrated into a practical application nor being significantly more.
Regarding claim 13, the claim recites the limitations “generating a system of m random quadratic polynomials Fi (xi, xn ), i=1,..,m, in a finite field in a predetermined number of n unknown variables, wherein the quadratic polynomials are of the form ayxiXj +Y biXi +c, wherein ay, bi, and c are random values from the finite field and wherein xi, xn denote the predetermined number of unknown variables;
embedding data of the blockchain transaction into quadratic, linear and constant terms, ay, bi, c of the generated system of random quadratic polynomials Fi (xi, xn), i=1,..,m;
solving the system Fi (xi, xn )=0, F2 (xi, xn )=0, ... , Fm (xi, xn )=0;
certifying validity of the transaction using a solution of the system; and generating the new block.”
Accordingly, the claims recite an abstract idea. This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. It’s noted that the claims recite additional element(s) (i.e., a system,). However, said additional elements are recited at a high-level of generality (i.e., as a system generating a new block associated with a blockchain transaction comprising: generating a system of m random quadratic polynomials Fi (xi, xn ), i=1,..,m, in a finite field in a predetermined number of n unknown variables, wherein the quadratic polynomials are of the formayxiXj +Y biXi +c, wherein ay, bi, and c are random values from the finite field and wherein xi, xn denote the predetermined number of unknown variables; embedding data of the blockchain transaction into quadratic, linear and constant terms, ay, bi, c of the generated system of random quadratic polynomials Fi (xi, xn ), i=1,..,m; solving the system Fi (xi, xn )=0, F2 (xi, xn )=0, ... , Fm (xi, xn )=0;certifying validity of the transaction using a solution of the system; and generating the new block are directed to an abstract idea as the claims recite mental and mathematical processes. Accordingly, the claims recite an abstract idea. This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application.
The claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because the additional elements when considered both individually and as an ordered combination do not amount to significantly more than the abstract idea. As mentioned above, although the claims recite additional elements, said elements taken individually or as a combination, do not result in the claim amounting to significantly more than the abstract idea because as the additional elements perform generic computer content distributing functions routinely used in information technology field solving the system Fi (xi, xn )=0, F2 (xi, xn )=0, ... , Fm (xi, xn )=0;certifying validity of the transaction using a solution of the system; and generating the new block.; in view of Berkheimer memo. Generic computer components recited as performing generic computer functions that are well understood, routine and conventional activities amount to no more than implementing the abstract idea with a computerized system. Therefore, the claim is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Claim 14 is also rejected under 35 U.S.C 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter for the same reasons addressed above as the claim is directed to an abstract idea without being integrated into a practical application, nor being significantly more.
Conclusion
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/VU V TRAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2491