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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 § 102
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 4-8, 11-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. (a)(1) and/or (a)(2) as being anticipated by So 20140157026 [ISD submitted 4/1/25]
Regarding claim 1, So teaches a method comprising:
receiving, by a memory subsystem, a power down notification; [Fig. 7 and 8, par. 47, 54, , step 706 and 80-86, inactivity trigger power down notification]
retrieving, in response to receiving the power down notification, a memory usage pattern for the memory subsystem; ; [Fig. 4 and 7-8, par. 13, 19, 34-35, retrieve usage pattern from memory 108 par. 48-49, 54-61, predict wakeup time based on determines usage pattern]
selecting a power mode of a plurality of power modes using a current time and the memory usage pattern, [Fig. 7-8, par. 17, 48; 50, 56-61; portable computer may determine, to enter a different power mode based on a time of the day and/or based on a day of the week; power controller operatively coupled to the memory is structured to select a first power mode, the first power mode step 8-8-818, select S3 or S4 in step 810 or 818]
and enabling the selected power mode. [ par. 13-15, 47-49, enter S3 or S4 based on the selection].
Claim 2. So teaches the method of claim 1, and further teach determining the memory usage pattern using timestamps for a plurality of commands received by the memory subsystem [ par. 13, 15-19, 21, 35, 45, 54-45 memory stored a usage pattern that has been dynamically modified based on activity associated with the electronic device; pattern includes times of day and days of week, i.e. timestamp].
Claim 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: receiving, by the memory subsystem, a new command; and updating the memory usage pattern based on the new command in response to receiving the new command [ par. 19, 38, 44, record usage patterns/user activities, pattern includes times of day and days of week, activities include entering data and command].
Claim 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the memory usage pattern includes a plurality of memory usage patterns for different days and wherein selecting the power mode is further based on a current day [par. 15, 19, 44, the computer that records a plurality of usage patterns; usage pattern includes times of day and days of week; electronic device 100 stores and dynamically modifies a usage pattern].
Claim 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of power modes include power modes for different operating currents and wherein enabling the selected power mode comprises causing the memory subsystem to operate using an operating current associated with the selected power mode [par. 2-4, 13-14, 17-19, 39, 44, 47, power modes include on mode (S0), a standby mode (S3), a hibernate mode (S4), and an off mode (S5). Modes associated with current drain levels, power controller operatively coupled to the memory]
Claim 6. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the power mode comprises: determining that the memory subsystem is in a peak time based on the memory usage pattern and the current time, wherein enabling the selected power mode comprises putting the memory subsystem into standby in response to determining that the memory subsystem is in the peak time. [ Fig. 8, Step 810, enter S3, standby mode, par. 13-17, 55-56. absract; the current time is 11:30 AM on a weekday, peak time from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays. This is in line with applicant’s s peak time of “for example: workday between the hours of 8am-6pm om par. 34 ]
Claim 7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the power mode comprises: determining that the memory subsystem is not in a peak time based on the memory usage pattern and the current time, wherein enabling the selected power mode comprises shutting the memory subsystem down in response to determining that the memory subsystem is not in the peak time; [ Fig. 8, Step 818, enter S4, hyper nation mode, par. 13-17, 55-56. absract; current time is 5:30 PM on a weekday, outside of peak time]
Claims 8 and 11-14 recite a non-transitory storage medium performing the method of claims 1 and 4- 7 respectively and therefore rejected accordingly.
Claim 15 recites the limitations of claims 1 and further reciting limitation of claim 2 (determining the memory usage pattern using timestamps for a plurality of commands received by the memory subsystem) and thus is rejected based on the same ground as indicated in claim 2.
Claims 16-20 repeat the limitation of claim 3-7 and therefore rejected accordingly.
Conclusion
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