DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Introductory Remarks
This action is in response to communications filed on 11 September 2024 and 27 October 2025. Claim(s) 1-16 is/are presently pending in the application, of which, claim(s) 1, 7, and 11 is/are presented in independent form.
This application properly claims priority to Chinese Application No. CN202311279423.7 filed on 28 September 2023. The requirements of 35 USC 119(a-d) are considered met.
An IDS was received on 26 September 2024. The reference has been considered for its English language portions only.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election of group I in the reply filed on 27 October 2025 is acknowledged. Because applicant did not distinctly and specifically point out the supposed errors in the restriction requirement, the election has been treated as an election without traverse (MPEP § 818.01(a)).
Claims 7, 8, and 10 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected invention, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 27 October 2025.
Examiner’s Note
The rejections below group claims that may not be identical, but whose language and scope are so substantively similar as to lend themselves to grouping, in the interests of clarity and conciseness. Any citation to the instant specification herein is made to the PGPub version (if applicable). The examiner notes that no statement has been entered regarding the inventorship of individual claims as required under 37 CFR 1.56, and therefore assumes that all claims have the same inventorship or are directed to inventions that were commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the invention.
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 3, 6, 13, and 16 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.
Claims 3 and 13 recite the limitation "the target data table". There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 6 and 16 recite the limitation "the each data table sent by the scheduler", but the scheduler is not described as sending data, rather having data sent to it. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-6, 9, and 11-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea without significantly more.
The claim(s) recite(s) mental process steps of receiving data, processing that data, and writing the results of the data processing. In this analysis, only those claim limitations stipulated as additional elements are considered to be limitations distinct from the abstract idea itself.
With respect to the independent claims, claim 1 is representative. Claim 1 recites, “in response to data being written into a data table, obtaining index data corresponding to target data written in the data table, wherein the index data is data corresponding to an index field used for constructing an index in the target data”, which is merely receiving data. The claim then recites, “determining a target log queue and a target index log file into which each of the index data is to be written based on a log queue corresponding to the data table, wherein a plurality of index log files are stored under each log queue, and a plurality of index data are stored in each index log file”, which is merely processing the input data to determine an output. Finally, the claim recites, “writing the index data corresponding to the target data into the target index log file in the target log queue, wherein the index log file is a write-ahead log (WAL) file, and the index log file is used for data playback to generate an index corresponding to the index data”, which is nothing more than writing the results of the data processing. This closely parallels the holding of Electric Power Group v. Alstom, S.A., 830 F.3d 1350, 1353-54, 119 USPQ2d 1739, 1741-42 (Fed. Cir. 2016).
There are no additional elements in the claim and therefore the claim does not amount to a practical application or significantly more than the judicial exception.
The other independent claim adds further generic computing components in the form of “an electronic device”, “a memory”, and “a processor” (claim 11), which do nothing to integrate the abstract idea into a practical application or amount to significantly more than the abstract idea. The dependent claims add nothing more than additional abstract idea limitations, which again do nothing to integrate the abstract idea into a practical application or amount to significantly more than the abstract idea.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-6, 9, and 11-16 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, and 35 U.S.C. 101, set forth in this Office action. The closest prior art appears to be Beedgen et al. (U.S. PGPub No. 2019/0146978 A1) (hereinafter Beedgen). Beedgen teaches many of the limitations of the independent claims, but does not appear to teach at least “writing the index data corresponding to the target data into the target index log file in the target log queue, wherein the index log file is a write-ahead log (WAL) file, and the index log file is used for data playback to generate an index corresponding to the index data”. No combination of prior art references has been found that would teach all of the limitations of the independent claims. Therefore, the independent claims are considered novel and unobvious, and the dependent claims likewise overcome the prior art at least by virtue of their dependence.
Conclusion
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/TYLER J TORGRIMSON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2165