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 .
Examiner finds no 35 USC 101 rejections in the current claim language.
Examiner finds no credible double patenting rejections in the current claim language.
Claim Objections
Claims 19 – 37 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 19 recites the limitation "actual address information" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the actual address information”;
Claim 21 recites the limitation "actual address information" in line 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the actual address information”;
Claim 31 recites the limitation "actual address information" in line 11. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the actual address information”;
Claim 36 recites the limitation "actual address information" in lines 10 – 11. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the actual address information”;
Claim 37 recites the limitation "actual address information" in line 8. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the actual address information”;
Claim 21 recites the limitation "virtual address information" in line 7. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the virtual address information”;
Claim 30 recites the limitation "virtual address information" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the virtual address information”;
Claim 31 recites the limitation "virtual address information" in line 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the virtual address information”;
Claim 33 recites the limitation "virtual address information" in lines 10 – 11. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the virtual address information”;
Claim 34 recites the limitation "virtual address information" in lines 2 – 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the virtual address information”;
Claim 21 recites the limitation "a service node" in line 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the service node”;
Claim 31 recites the limitation "a service node" in line 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Examiner recommends the language “the service node”.
Examiner recommends a thorough review of the claim language in order to correct other possible antecedent basis concerns.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 19, 35, 36, and 37 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Goldschmidt et al. (U.S. Pat. Pub. No. 2025/0047635) (Automated Virtual Subnet Delegation in a Cloud Environment).
19. A method for accessing a virtual private cloud (VPC) (paragraph 16 “using an automated process to determine subnet placement in a virtual network (alternatively referred to as a virtual private cloud)”; paragraph 55 “accessing a data structure representing virtual internet protocol (IP) address space of a cloud provider and allocated subnets of the IP address space”), comprising:
receiving a first access request, wherein the first access request carries virtual address information, the first access request is used for indicating access to a target service node arranged in a target VPC (Fig. 8; paragraph 55 “Example operation 804 represents receiving a request for subnet range allocation within the virtual IP address space”; Fig. 6; paragraph 40); wherein the target service node has actual address information; wherein the virtual address information is used for indicating actual address information of the target VPC and the target service node (Fig. 6; paragraph 40 “As shown in FIG. 6 and operation 110 of FIG. 1, in response to the create request, the cloud provider returns a virtual subnet resource identifier (ID) to the automated virtual subnet delegator 202; (because the virtual network model 208 accurately reflects the current state of the virtual network/virtual private cloud IP address space”), and the actual address information is a real address of a service node (Fig. 8; paragraph 55 “Example operation 804 represents receiving a request for subnet range allocation within the virtual IP address space”; Fig. 6; paragraph 40; paragraph 17);
accessing the target service node according to the first access request (Fig. 6; paragraph 40 “As shown in FIG. 6 and operation 110 of FIG. 1, in response to the create request, the cloud provider returns a virtual subnet resource identifier (ID) to the automated virtual subnet delegator 202; (because the virtual network model 208 accurately reflects the current state of the virtual network/virtual private cloud IP address space”).
35. The method according to claim 19, wherein the actual address information is an internet protocol (IP) address of the service node (Abstract “determine the number of IP addresses …”; paragraph 17 “The user input submitted with a request for IP address space includes user-defined parameters, which are used to determine the number of IP addresses needed for a given application”).
Regarding claims 36 and 37, the rejection of claim 19 under 35 USC 102 (see above) applies.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 20 – 34 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.
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/KENNETH R COULTER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2445
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