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.
Claims 1, 9 and 15 are 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.
Regarding claim 1, the term "Asset Aware Dada (ADA”)" renders the claim indefinite because it is unclear what the term really means and one skilled in the art may not be able to determine the scope of these terms without further definition. Furthermore, the claims recite “minimum level of detail ((LOD).” It is also unclear what this term refers to and how one can interpret it absent further definition in the specification . Applicant needs to further define . As a result, claims 1-20 are rejected.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
None of the references, either singularly or in combination, discloses or even suggests:
As per claims 1-8, a method, comprising: writing to the command buffer asset aware data (AAD) corresponding to an asset used by the draw call, wherein the AAD includes a minimum level of detail (LOD) data for the asset; determining that the minimum LOD data of the asset has not been loaded to system memory at a draw time corresponding to execution of the draw call; and executing the command buffer for the draw call using a proxy asset instead of the asset.
As per claims 9-14, a computer system comprising: a processor; memory coupled to the processor and having stored therein instructions that, if executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to execute a method, comprising: writing to the command buffer asset aware data (AAD) corresponding to an asset used by the draw call, wherein the AAD includes a minimum level of detail (LOD) data for the asset; determining that the minimum LOD data of the asset has not been loaded to system memory at a draw time corresponding to execution of the draw call; and executing the command buffer for the draw call using a proxy asset instead of the asset.
As per claims 15-20, a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program for performing a method, the computer-readable medium comprisingprogram instructions for writing to the command buffer asset aware data (AAD) corresponding to an asset used by the draw call, wherein the AAD includes a minimum level of detail (LOD) data for the asset; program instructions for determining that the minimum LOD data of the asset has not been loaded to system memory at a draw time corresponding to execution of the draw call; and program instructions for executing the command buffer for the draw call using a proxy asset instead of the asset.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
See references cited on PTO form 892.
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/Ronald Laneau/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3715
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