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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement filed 10/4/2024 fails to comply with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97, 1.98 and MPEP § 609 because the USPUB number for the Mutter reference is incorrect. It has been placed in the application file, but the information referred to therein has not been considered as to the merits. Applicant is advised that the date of any re-submission of any item of information contained in this information disclosure statement or the submission of any missing element(s) will be the date of submission for purposes of determining compliance with the requirements based on the time of filing the statement, including all certification requirements for statements under 37 CFR 1.97(e). See MPEP § 609.05(a).
Appropriate correction required.
Claim Objections
Claims 1-12 are objected to because of the following informalities: The claims do not spell out the first recitation of various acronyms such as CAN, CAN FD, MCU, CRC, ID.
Appropriate correction is required.
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)(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.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kishigami et al. “Kishigami” US 2018/0205572.
Regarding claim 1, Kishigami teaches a wired communication system having a communication medium consisting of two wires, and comprising at least two high-speed communication units compatible with a CAN protocol (Figures 1 and 4 show multiple high speed communication units (14) which can operate on CAN/CAN-FD; Paragraph 12), wherein each of the high-speed communication units comprises:
a first CAN transceiver for modulating and transmitting, or receiving and demodulating CAN protocol signals (low speed transceiver (12) of Figure 1 constructs CAN or CAN-FD; Paragraph 43);
wherein the first CAN transceiver does not transmit dominant signals in order not to interfere with high-speed signals when the wired communication system is transmitting the high-speed signals (when high speed transmissions are being performed, the low-speed transceiver is in a sleep mode so as not to affect the high-speed communications; Paragraph 56. Sleep mode suspends the transmission/reception of data; Paragraph 53. Thus, one can see the low-power transceiver does not transmit a dominant signal);
the first CAN transceiver can transmit signals only after a predetermined time period has elapsed since dominant signaling ceased (after the low power transceiver goes to sleep mode (S2 od Figure 4), the low-power transceiver will receive a wakeup command and return to normal mode to send data (S4); Paragraph 71. The time between going to sleep (i.e. dominant signaling ceased) to wakeup up and transmitting in normal mode is viewed as the predetermined time period);
the wired communication system has a default mechanism that allows all the high-speed communication units connected to the same communication medium to know start and end times of transmissions of the high-speed signals for reception and demodulation (Paragraphs 68-69 teaches the high-speed transceivers (which are connected to the same communication medium (See Figure 1)) start transmitting at time S2 and cease transmission at time S3); and
all of the high-speed communication units return to an original CAN mode for the start of frame and arbitration of the next transmission (At S4, all the transceivers return to the normal mode; Paragraph 71. As discussed above, this includes CAN/CAN-FD).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-12 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.
Conclusion
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/BRANDON M RENNER/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2411
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