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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 § 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.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "the claim" on line 8. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 2-7 are rejected under 112(b) as well as being dependent on based rejected claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 are allowable.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: Claim 1 is allowed over the closest prior art of record, only when the 112(b) rejections indicated above is resolved. The closes prior art of record, considered individually or in combination, fails to fairly teach or suggest invented features, which is “selectively reducing a size of variable-length input data scheduled to be transferred between a first process of the plurality of processes and the other processes of the plurality of processes for a collective operation based on the variable-length input data exceeding the fixed size of the buffer”, structurally and functionally interconnected with other limitations in the manner as cited in the claim and dependent claims.
Claim 8 is allowed over the closest prior art of record. The closes prior art of record, considered individually or in combination, fails to fairly teach or suggest invented features, which is “reducing a precision of an aggregate of variable-length input data scheduled to be received by each process of a plurality of processes from other processes of the plurality of processes for a collective operation based on the aggregate of variable-length input data exceeding a predefined size limit”, structurally and functionally interconnected with other limitations in the manner as cited in the claim and dependent claims.
Claim 16 is allowed over the closest prior art of record. The closes prior art of record, considered individually or in combination, fails to fairly teach or suggest invented features, which is “reduce a precision of an aggregate of variable-length input data scheduled to be received by each process of the plurality of processes from the other processes of the plurality of processes for a collective operation based on the aggregate of variable-length input data exceeding a predefined size limit”, structurally and functionally interconnected with other limitations in the manner as cited in the claim and dependent claims.
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Cited References
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Cited references are related to instant application subject matters.
Conclusion
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/LAM T MAI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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