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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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted were considered by the examiner.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Liu et al. [US 2018/0139039], Applicant Cited Art.
Claim 1, Liu et al. discloses a method implemented by a network adapter [par. 0048], wherein the method comprises: receiving, from a host, a write operation command to write to-be-written data into a storage pool [par. 0049; par. 0055]; processing, based on the write operation command, the to-be-written data to obtain first processed data [encryption operation, par. 0060]; and writing the first processed data into the storage pool [save the encrypted to be written data, par. 0062].
Claim 2, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 1, wherein processing the to-be- written data comprises performing erasure coding (EC), data integrity field (DIF) protection, encryption on the to-be-written data, or decryption on the to-be-written data [CRC encryption, par. 0062].
Claim 3, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the first processed data comprises a verification data block of the to-be-written data [CRC code, par. 0062], and wherein writing the first processed data comprises storing the verification data block in the storage pool [store the CRC code and the encrypted to be written data in a storage area, par. 0061].
Claim 4, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 3, wherein writing the first processed data further comprises storing the verification data block in a memory of the network adapter [par. 0061-0062].
Claim 5, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 3, wherein the first processed data further comprises the to-be-written data, and wherein before processing the to-be-written data the method further comprises storing the to-be-written data in a memory of the network adapter [steps 201-204, par. 0055-0060].
Claim 6, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 5, wherein writing the first processed data comprises storing the to-be-written data from the memory into the storage pool [par. 0062].
Claim 7, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the first processed data comprises the to-be-written data and data integrity field (DIF) protection data, or wherein the first processed data comprises data based on encryption of the to-be-written data [par. 0062].
Claim 8, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the host, a read operation command to read data from the storage pool; reading, based on the read operation command, the data from the storage pool to obtain read data; processing the read data to obtain second processed data; and sending, to the host, the second processed data [data read commands, par. 0008].
Claim 9, Liu et al. discloses the method of claim 8, wherein processing the read data comprises performing decryption processing on the read data [par. 0022-0033, decrypting to be read data].
Claims 10-19 and 19-20 are rejected using the same rationale as claims 1-9.
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 19-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as directed to signals per se. The claims are directed to "a computer program product comprising instructions that are stored on a computer-readable storage medium..." The claim language does not appear to disavow transitory signals. The instant specification also does not appear to disavow transitory signals, does not appear to expand on whether "computer-readable storage medium" includes or excludes them. The claims should be amended to recite "non-transitory".
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
XU et al. [US 2023/0223046]; Data Read/Write Apparatus and Electronic Device. See par 0086.
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