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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 .
Specification
The substitute specification submitted on 07/31/2024 has been accepted.
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 1-11 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites “monitoring performed by the monitoring unit” in line 7. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “monitor vehicle-related information regarding the vehicle transmitted in an in-vehicle network in the vehicle” in lines 3-4.
Claim 1 recites “type by type” in line 8. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “a plurality of types of the vehicle-related information” in line 6.
Claim 1 recites “pattern information” in lines 9-10. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “pattern information” in line 5.
Claim 1 recites “comparison” in line 11. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “compare, type by type, the pattern information generated by the pattern information generating unit with reference information” in lines 8-9.
Claim 10 recites “monitoring performed by the monitoring unit” in line 9. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “monitor vehicle-related information regarding the vehicle transmitted in an in-vehicle network in the vehicle” in lines 5-6.
Claim 10 recites “type by type” in line 10. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “a plurality of types of the vehicle-related information” in line 8.
Claim 10 recites “pattern information” in line 12. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “pattern information” in line 7.
Claim 10 recites “comparison” in line 13. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “compare, type by type, the pattern information generated by the pattern information generating unit with reference information” in lines 10-11.
Claim 11 recites “monitoring” in line 6. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “monitoring vehicle-related information regarding the vehicle transmitted in an in-vehicle network in the vehicle” in lines 3-4.
Claim 11 recites “type by type” in line 7. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “a plurality of types of the vehicle-related information” in lines 5-6.
Claim 11 recites “pattern information” in line 8. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “pattern information” in line 5.
Claim 11 recites “comparison” in line 9. It is unclear whether or not it is referring to “comparing, type by type the generated pattern information with reference information” in line 7.
Claims 2-9 are also rejected since they are depended on the rejected claim 1 set forth above.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Soffer (US 2023/0087311 A1), see Fig. 1-2, 7, para. 79-81, discloses a cyber security system for in-vehicle networks comprises a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) communicating via a vehicle bus. The system comprises a plurality of bus security units (BSUs), wherein each BSU is configured to be connected between the vehicle bus and one of the ECUs, and the BSUs communicating via a security bus separate from the vehicle bus. Each BSU is configured to monitor the activity of the corresponding ECU, on the vehicle bus, send the monitored activity to another BSU on the security bus and detect abnormal communication on the vehicle bus.
Hirano et al. (US 2022/0254198 A1), see Fig. 1-5, 11, para. 146-154, discloses a processing sequence from when vehicle log transmission device detects an anomaly from a vehicle log to when an anomaly log is transmitted to vehicle log collection server.
Takeuchi et al. (US 2019/0217869 A1), see Fig. 1, 9-11, para. 120-146, discloses determining, based on a communication data item passing through a network to which a plurality of electronic control units are connected in a system, an anomaly level of the communication data item or an operating state of the system; and (i) changing at least one of a method of transmitting a log of the communication data item and a method of storing the log of the communication data item, according to the anomaly level of the communication data item determined, or (ii) performing sampling on the communication data item according to a method of sampling corresponding to the operating state determined.
Takahashi et al. (US 2020/0334554 A1), see Fig. 1-3, 9-17, para. 7-8, discloses a server that creates an anomaly detection model that makes it possible to consider the affect that surrounding nodes have on the transmission source node when selecting information used to create an anomaly detection model.
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/BRIAN T LE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2469
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