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 .
1. This office acknowledges receipt of the following item(s) from the Applicant:
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) was considered.
2. Claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Double Patenting
3. The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the "right to exclude" granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. See In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970);and, In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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4. Claims 1-20 are rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent No. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claims as follows:
Claims 1, 3-5 and 7 of the examined application are anticipated and the same scope of invention by claims 1-9 of the reference such as a method comprising: receiving a command to read a memory location from a memory device; reading a first specified number of bits from a first portion of the memory location, the first portion at a front of the memory location; determining whether the first portion is a marker value that indicates that the memory location is compressed; and responsive to determining that the first portion indicates that the memory location is compressed, reading only a compressed value of the memory location instead of an entire memory location.
The claim 2 of examined application are obvious over the claim 1 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites wherein the marker value is encrypted while in the reference claimed silence. However, a column 1, lines 22-23 of Olson US Patent No. 7590641 discloses this limitation.
The claim 6 of examined application are obvious over the claim 1 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites decompressing the compressed value after reading it while in the reference claimed silence. However, a paragraph 78 of Deutsch et al. US Pub. No. 20210240638 discloses this limitation.
Claims 8, 10-12 and 14 of the examined application are anticipated and the same scope of invention by claims 19-20 of the reference such as a non-transitory machine-readable medium, storing instructions for reading a memory location from a memory device, the instructions, which when executed, cause a machine to perform operations comprising: receiving a command to read a memory location from a memory device; reading a first specified number of bits from a first portion of the memory location, the first portion at a front of the memory location; determining whether the first portion is a marker value that indicates that the memory location is compressed; and responsive to determining that the first portion indicates that the memory location is compressed, reading only a compressed value of the memory location instead of an entire memory location.
The claim 9 of examined application are obvious over the claim 19 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites wherein the marker value is encrypted while in the reference claimed silence. However, a column 1, lines 22-23 of Olson US Patent No. 7590641 discloses this limitation.
The claim 13 of examined application are obvious over the claim 19 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites decompressing the compressed value after reading it while in the reference claimed silence. However, a paragraph 78 of Deutsch et al. US Pub. No. 20210240638 discloses this limitation.
Claims 15 and 17-19 of the examined application are anticipated and the same scope of invention by claims 10-18 of the reference such as a memory system comprising: A memory controller configured to perform operations comprising: receiving a command to read a memory location from a memory device of the memory system; reading a first specified number of bits from a first portion of the memory location, the first portion at a front of the memory location; determining whether the first portion is a marker value that indicates that the memory location is compressed; and responsive to determining that the first portion indicates that the memory location is compressed, reading only a compressed value of the memory location instead of an entire memory location.
The claim 16 of examined application are obvious over the claim 10 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites wherein the marker value is encrypted while in the reference claimed silence. However, a column 1, lines 22-23 of Olson US Patent No. 7590641 discloses this limitation.
The claim 20 of examined application are obvious over the claim 10 of reference because the claim seems to differ because the claim seems to differ from the reference in that the claimed invention of the examined application recites decompressing the compressed value after reading it while in the reference claimed silence. However, a paragraph 78 of Deutsch et al. US Pub. No. 20210240638 discloses this limitation.
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/HOAI V HO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2827
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