DETAILED ACTION
Applicants’ response filed 4/2/2026 has been considered.
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claims 1-6, 8-9 and 12-19 are pending.
Elected claims 2-6, 8-9 and 13 are examined and rejected herein.
Withdrawn claims 1 and 14-19 should be cancelled in subsequent communication.
IDSs have been considered. PTO-1449s are attached.
Application is pending.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because Figures 3, 5 and 6 are illegible. Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 2-6, 8-9 and 13 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
For example, claim 2 recites:
A data communication method applied to a receiver, comprising:
receiving, by the receiver, one or more consecutive frames of data from a transmitter, and for each frame of data, detecting a signal value of each data bit and a signal value of a check bit adjacent to the data bit; and
in a case that each check bit is preset to a signal value different from its corresponding data bit, determining, by the receiver, that the frame of data is valid when detecting that the signal value of each data bit in the frame of data is different from the check bit adjacent to the data bit, and otherwise, determining that the frame of data is invalid.
The claim states, “…in a case that each check bit is preset to a signal value different from its corresponding data bit, determining, by the receiver, that the frame of data is valid when detecting that the signal value of each data bit in the frame of data is different from the check bit adjacent to the data bit…”
Is the check bit that is received at the receiver intentionally preset at the transmitter or at the receiver to a value that is different from the corresponding data bit?
Does each data bit have a corresponding inverted check bit adjacent to the data bit before it is transmitted?
Essential elements are missing from the claims.
Respective dependent claims 3-6, 8-9 and 13 are rejected at least based on dependency.
Corrections are requested.
It is the Examiner’s conclusion that the claims of the present application, as presented, lack clarity. Applicants are encouraged to formulate claim language that clearly defines the novelty of the application. Pertinent prior arts have been cited for Applicants’ review and may be applied once the claims are clear.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See PTO-892.
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MUJTABA M. CHAUDRY
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2112
/MUJTABA M CHAUDRY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2112
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