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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 § 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 15-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter.
As per claim(s) 15-20, they are rejected because the applicant has provided evidence that the applicant intends the term "non-transitory, computer-readable medium" to include non-statutory matter. The applicant describes a computer-readable storage medium as including open ended language and thus it is reasonable to interpret it to include all possible mediums, including non-statutory mediums (A non-transitory computer-readable or processor-readable media includes both computer storage media and tangible storage media that facilitate transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A non-transitory processor-readable storage media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and not limitation, such non-transitory processor-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other tangible storage medium that can be used to store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer or processor, [0091]). The words "storage", "tangible", and/or "recording" are insufficient to convey only statutory embodiments to one of ordinary skill in the art absent an explicit and deliberate limiting definition or clear differentiation between storage media and transitory media in the disclosure. As such, the claim(s) is/are drawn to a form of energy. Energy is not one of the four categories of invention and therefore this/these claim(s) is/are not statutory. Energy is not a series of steps or acts and thus is not a process. Energy is not a physical article or object and as such is not a machine or manufacture. Energy is not a combination of substances and therefore not a composition of matter.
Since the specification describes "a non-transitory, computer-readable medium” as comprising both transitory and non-transitory media, the claim encompasses both and is therefore non-statutory.
The examiner suggests amending the specification to remove “non-transitory” so that the term is not redefined to include non-statutory matter.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-14 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Prior art was not found that explicitly teaches or fairly suggests “execute, according to the preconfigured mapping, the second debug operation set for determining a second result using the error metadata, the second result indicating a report generation operation” in combination with “generate, by executing the report generation operation indicated by the second result, an error report comprising updated error metadata based on the first result and the second result” and “the first result indicating a second debug operation set”, as outlined in independent claim 1.
Prior art was not found that explicitly teaches or fairly suggests “executing, according to the preconfigured mapping, the second debug operation set for determining a second result using the error metadata, the second result indicating a report generation operation” in combination with “generating, by executing the report generation operation indicated by the second result, an error report comprising updated error metadata based on the first result and the second result” and “the first result indicating a second debug operation set”, as outlined in independent claim 8.
The remaining claims, not specifically mentioned, are allowed because they are dependent upon one of the claims mentioned above.
These limitations are considered allowable only in combination with all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Mahajan (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2015/0121145) discloses synchronizing debug information generation according to a predetermined map ([0036]).
Sainath (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2015/0074471) discloses a map that helps facilitate the debugging process and reports errors and problems ([0028]).
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/JOSHUA P LOTTICH/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2113
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