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 .
Claims 1 – 20 have been examined and are pending.
Drawings
3. The applicant’s submitted drawings are acceptable for examination purposes.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 02/07/2025 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement has been considered by the examiner.
Claim Objections
Claim 1 is objected to because of the following informalities: “heterogenous” should be “heterogeneous”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 – 5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter of software, per se. Normally, an apparatus or system claim would be statutory. The claim does not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the applicant has claimed a system with a control/management (C/M) plane, mission manager (MM), mission data plane, XaaS modules, processing functions (PF) and data plane functions (DPFs) without reciting any hardware elements in the body of the claim. Thus, the claim is directed to a software product, per se, without any recitation of a non-transitory hardware element. Appropriate correction is required to direct claims 1 – 6 towards a statutory category.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6 – 20 are allowed.
Conclusion
Citation of Pertinent Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2021/0360563 to Arrobo Vidal et al. (Supporting information centric networking in next generation cellular networks)
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2022/0103985 to Khasnabish et al. (Method and system for robust service architecture for vehicle-to-everything communications)
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2022/0159090 to Ding et al. (Lightweight support of information centric network services in cellular network)
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/H. A. K./
Examiner, Art Unit 2451
/Chris Parry/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2451
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