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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 .
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.
Claim 5 is 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. It recites “said transforming” in line 1. It is not clear if it refers to “transforming the universal object into a first object of the first class” or if it refers to “transforming the universal object into a second object of the second class” recited in claim 1.
Claim 7 is 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. It recites “automatically based on the first class and of the second class” (emphasis added) in line 2. It is not clear what is meant by “based on” “of the second class”.
Claims 9-16 recite the limitation "the processor" in line 22 of independent claim 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 13 is 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. It recites “said transforming” in line 1. It is not clear if it refers to “transforming the universal object into a first object of the first class” or if it refers to “transforming the universal object into a second object of the second class” recited in claim 9.
Claim 15 is 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. It recites “automatically based on the first class and of the second class” (emphasis added) in line 2. It is not clear what is meant by “based on” “of the second class”.
Claim 16 recites the limitation "the processor" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-4, 6, 8, 17-20 are allowed.
Claims 5, 7, 9-16 are objected as they are rejected under 35 USC 112.
REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Following closest prior art are noted.
Goetz (US Patent Application Publication No. 2015/0301840) teaches a system and method in which a specialized class triggers the specialization of other classes. For example, if a first class extends a particular superclass, the specialization of the first class may trigger the specialization of the superclass. Additionally, specializing a class triggers the specialization of various classes used internally as part of the implementation of the class. A compiler recognizes dependency relationships between generic classes and describes those classes in terms of the type variables that trigger specialization of other classes when a first class is specialized, and includes structural references indicating dependency relationships between classes when generating class files. Loading a first class may trigger the loading of a second class based on a dependency relationship between the two classes.
Llamas (US Patent Application Publication No. 2008/0026789) teaches a system and method configuring a connection request to connect a mobile device having a mobile device type to a communications network including a private branch exchange (PBX) system having a PBX type. Identification information including at least one of the mobile device type and the PBX type is provided. A PBX binding layer is selected based on the identification information. The selected PBX binding layer is provided to the mobile device for interfacing with the PBX system.
Saracco (US Patent Application Publication No. 2005/0120342) teaches a system and method of creating virtual object (universal object) having at least one attribute from the selected registered data objects from different data sources. It uses information integration software for connecting to different data sources containing the data objects and registering the data objects from these data sources, and wrapping access to the at least one virtual data object into a reusable software component, as though it was a single real data object, accessible directly from software applications.
Halpern (US Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0033442) teaches a system and method of object-oriented programming for creating an environment where an application server may continue running while various kinds of changes are made to it by employing a versioning architecture for managing version changes for classes in object-oriented environments. Subsequent versions are created, compiled and deployed "on-the-fly" such that subsequent versions of the object class inherit all attributes, associations and operations from prior versions of the object, and wherein all versions of the object class are deployed by mapping each class into a persistence storage means.
Budhiraja (US Patent Application Publication No. 2002/0144256) teaches a system and method of executing plural versions of business process management software on a single integration server. A plurality of defined components can include executable process logic of a business process and at least one port defining a standard representation of an external interface of said component. Connections between ports of desired components are also defined. The components and connections are stored in a repository as a set objects and the set of objects is loaded as a first version in a first runtime environment by configuring run time properties of the set of the objects. After modification of the set of objects, the modified set can be loaded as a second version in a second runtime environment by configuring run time properties of the set of the objects as modified.
These prior art of record alone or in combination with other prior art fail to teach the invention as claimed in detail when claims are considered as a whole.
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