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 .
Response to Amendment
This Office Action is in response to the amendments filed November 28, 2025. Claims 2 and 18 have been cancelled by the amendments.
Priority
The applicant’s claim of the benefit of and priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210114330.8 filed on January 30, 2022 is acknowledge. Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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.
Claims 22 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b), 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.
The term “high speed communication device” in claim 22 is a relative term which renders the claim indefinite. The term “high speed communication device” is not defined by the claim, the specification does not provide a standard for ascertaining the requisite degree, and one of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of the invention. For example, it is unclear at what speed threshold a communication device becomes a “high speed” communication device.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 3-17, 19-21 are allowed.
Claim 22 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art of record does not teach or disclose the following combination of claimed limitations recited in claim 1: “wherein the memory request message carries a first delay; estimate a second delay generated in association with the host using a free memory; and in association with an amount of the free memory being greater than or equal to an amount of the remote memory and in association with the second delay being less than or equal to the first delay, send an indication message to the host”.
While Woo (US 20220237113 A1) does teach in association with an amount of the free memory being greater than or equal to an amount of the remote memory and in association with the second delay being less than or equal to the first delay, send an indication message to the host (Woo paragraphs 18, 23, 31, 55-56, and Fig. 8), it does not teach or disclose the memory request message carrying a first delay. Woo instead appears to rely on previously initialized delay values. Other prior art of record likewise does not disclose or suggest having the memory request carrying a first delay in combination with the methods/apparatus of Woo.
Claims 13 and 17 recite similar subject matter and are allowable under the same rationale.
Dependent claims 3-12, 14-16, and 19-22 are/would be allowable at least because they depend on a claim containing allowable subject matter.
Response to Arguments
The examiner thanks the applicant for their remarks of November 18, 2025. The remarks have been accepted and fully considered.
In light of the amendments to the claims, all 112(b) rejections indicated in the previous Office Action are withdrawn.
Applicant’s remarks are moot in light of the indication of allowable subject matter above.
Conclusion
Applicant’s amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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Examiner, Art Unit 2138
/Kaushikkumar M Patel/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2138