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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 .
The application has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible typographical and grammatical errors. Applicant’s cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which he/she may become aware in the application.
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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 1-20 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.
Claim 1 recites on line 8 the limitation “the processor configured to generate a combined data signal”. This limitation is unclear. It is not known what is being combined with the first converted data signal. Clarification and/or correction are required.
Claim 10 recites on lines 11-12 the limitation “the processor configured to generate a combined data signal”. This limitation is unclear. It is not known what is being combined with the first converted data signal. Clarification and/or correction are required.
Claim 17 recites on lines 7-8 the limitation “generating, at a processor of the switch circuitry, a combined data signal from the first converted data signal from”. This limitation is unclear. It is not known what is being combined with the first converted data signal. Clarification and/or correction are required.
Claims 2-9, 11-16 and 18-20 are also rejected due to their dependency on respective independent claims 1, 10 and 17 hereby rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b).
Citation of Relevant Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Mick et al (US 2005/0254330) teach a switch circuitry comprising: first line card circuitry configured to receive a first data signal from a first computing node, the first data signal having a first format, the first line card circuitry comprising first conversion circuitry configured to generate a first converted data signal by converting the first format to a second format; and, a processor configured to receive the first converted data signal from the first conversion circuitry, and generate an output.
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/JOSEPH J LAUTURE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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