CTNF 18/832,342 CTNF 90487 Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 Claim s 2-6 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless – 07-08-aia AIA (a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. 07-15-aia AIA Claim(s) 1, 7 and 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 a1 as being anticipated by Taniguchi (255-Gbps PAM-8 O-band Transmission through 10 Km SMF under 14 Ghz Bandwidth limitation using MLSE based on Nonlinear Channel Estimation with cutdown Volterra Kernels) . Regarding claim 1 and similar claims 7 and 8, Taniguchi teaches a symbol determination apparatus (Fig. 1) comprising: a possibility symbol sequence generator configured to generate a plurality of possibility symbol sequences that is a possibility for a transmission signal sequence formed by a transmission symbol (Fig. 1, the output of the trellis generation; also corresponding to x m in page 2, column 1) ; a transmission path estimator (Fig. 1, the estimator that accepts the output of the trellis generation as input and adapts the DIR filter) configured to include a function approximator (Fig. 1, the DIR filter) that approximates a transfer function of a transmission path that transmits the transmission signal sequence, and outputs an estimated reception symbol obtained as an output of the function approximator when each of a plurality of the possibility symbol sequences is given to the function approximator as an input sequence (Page 2, column 1) ; a determination processor (Fig. 1, MLSE), by determining the transmission symbol by maximum likelihood sequence estimation on a basis of the determination target reception symbol sequence (Fig. 1, the output by FFE; Page 2, column 2, line 3, the input sequence from the FFE ) obtained from a reception signal sequence when the transmission path transmits the transmission signal sequence and the estimated reception symbol for each possibility symbol sequence, configured to specify an estimated transmission symbol corresponding to a determination target reception symbol sequence (Page 2, column 1) ; and an optimizer (Fig. 1, the adaptation unit indicated by the arrow, that performs optimization within the MLSE) configured to optimize the function approximator such that a determination target reception symbol forming the determination target reception symbol sequence is obtained as an output when the transmission signal sequence transmitted when the reception signal sequence is received or a sequence obtained from an estimated transmission signal sequence formed by the estimated transmission symbol is given as an input sequence (Page 2, column 1, Thus, this amount can be reduced while suppressing performance degradation by removing kernels in the order from the kernel with the smallest effect on the output of the Volterra filter, that is, the kernel with the smallest value ) . Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See the notice of reference cited (PTO-892) . Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to PRANESH K BARUA whose telephone number is (571)270-1017. The examiner can normally be reached on Mon-Sat: 11-8pm. If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner’s supervisor, David Payne can be reached on 5712723024. The fax phone number for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is 571-273-8300. Information regarding the status of an application may be obtained from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. Status information for published applications may be obtained from either Private PAIR or Public PAIR. Status information for unpublished applications is available through Private PAIR only. 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