DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to the application 19/019,342 filed on 01/13/2025.
Claims 1-20 are been examined and are pending in this application.
This application is a continuation of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/782,019, entitled "IDENTIFYING AND ANALYZING ACTIONS FROM VECTOR
EPRESENTATIONS OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS USING A LARGE
LANGUAGE MODEL" filed on July 23, 2024, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/771,876 entitled MAPPING IDENTIFIED GAPS IN CONTROLS TO OPERATIVE STANDARDS USING A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL and filed July 12, 2024, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/661,532 entitled DYNAMIC INPUT-SENSITIVE VALIDATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL OUTPUTS AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF THE SAME and filed May 10, 2024, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/661,519 entitled DYNAMIC, RESOURCE-SENSITIVE MODEL SELECTION AND OUTPUT GENERATION AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF THE SAME and filed May 10, 2024, and is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/633,293 entitled DYNAMIC EVALUATION OF LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTS FOR MODEL SELECTION AND OUTPUT VALIDATION AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF THE SAME and filed April 11, 2024.
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 .
Election/Restrictions
For the record, the Examiner acknowledges that NO restrictions warranted at applicant’s initial time of filing for patent.
Priority
For the record, the Examiner acknowledges that NO foreign priority claimed at applicant’s initial time of filing for patent.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS), submitted on 01/13/2025, is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Oath/Declaration
For the record, the Examiner acknowledge that the Oath/Declaration filed on 01/13/2025 has been accepted.
Drawings
For the record, the Examiner acknowledges that the drawings filed on 01/13/2025 has been accepted.
Specification
For the record, the Examiner acknowledges that the Applicant's specification filed on 01/13/2025 has been accepted.
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 15-20 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim limitation for e.g. “… set of information is configured to:….” to the independent claim 15 invokes 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph. However, the written description fails to disclose the corresponding structure, material, or acts for performing the entire claimed function and to clearly link the structure, material, or acts to the function. The disclosure is devoid of any structure that performs the function in the claim. Therefore, the claim is indefinite and is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph.
Applicant may:
(a) Amend the claim so that the claim limitation will no longer be interpreted as a limitation under 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph;
(b) Amend the written description of the specification such that it expressly recites what structure, material, or acts perform the entire claimed function, without introducing any new matter (35 U.S.C. 132(a)); or
(c) Amend the written description of the specification such that it clearly links the structure, material, or acts disclosed therein to the function recited in the claim, without introducing any new matter (35 U.S.C. 132(a)).
If applicant is of the opinion that the written description of the specification already implicitly or inherently discloses the corresponding structure, material, or acts and clearly links them to the function so that one of ordinary skill in the art would recognize what structure, material, or acts perform the claimed function, applicant should clarify the record by either:
(a) Amending the written description of the specification such that it expressly recites the corresponding structure, material, or acts for performing the claimed function and clearly links or associates the structure, material, or acts to the claimed function, without introducing any new matter (35 U.S.C. 132(a)); or
(b) Stating on the record what the corresponding structure, material, or acts, which are implicitly or inherently set forth in the written description of the specification, perform the claimed function. For more information, see 37 CFR 1.75(d) and MPEP §§ 608.01(o) and 2181.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-14 allowed.
Claims 15-20 contains allowable subject matter, however, as allowable subject matter has been indicated, applicant's reply must either comply with all formal requirements or specifically traverse each requirement not complied with. See 37 CFR 1.111(b) and MPEP § 707.07(a).
The examiner notes that once applicant overcomes the above 112 rejection, the claims
can pass to issue.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's
disclosure. See the attached PTO-892.
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
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/YONAS A BAYOU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2499 05/28/2025
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