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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 .
Claims 1-15, 17, and 18 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 –
(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.
Claim(s) 1, 9, 17, and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lin et al. (US 2018/0075159).
With respect to claim 1, Lin discloses: A distributed graph data processing system, comprising: a computing node in a distributed architecture, wherein the computing node comprises a computing unit and a persistent storage unit that are in a corresponding relationship, and a storage manager is deployed in the computing unit; the computing unit is configured to receive an assigned graph data processing task, and obtain a graph data slice corresponding to the graph data processing task, and store the graph data slice in a corresponding graph data adjacency list; the storage manager is configured to divide the graph data adjacency list corresponding to the graph data processing task into graph data blocks, determine a key value corresponding to each of the graph data blocks, and record and store a corresponding relationship between key values of the graph data blocks and storage location information of the graph data blocks, wherein the graph data blocks comprise node data and edge data in the graph data adjacency list, and the storage location information of the graph data blocks is configured to obtain the graph data blocks; and the persistent storage unit is configured to persistently store the graph data blocks based on the storage location information, to support the computing unit corresponding to the persistent storage unit to perform the graph data processing task (Abstract).
With respect to claims 9, 17, and 18, they recite similar limitations as claim 1 and are therefore rejected under the same citations and rationale.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-8, 10-15 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.
Conclusion
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/WISSAM RASHID/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2195
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