Detailed Action
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This is in response to application filed on 1/16/2025, claims 1-20 are pending for examination.
Specification
The lengthy specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors. Applicant's cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which applicant may become aware in the specification.
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)(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.
Claims 1, 4-5 and 19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Sethi et al., US 2025/0383966 A1.
Regarding claims 1 and 19, Sethi teaches a storage enclosure, comprising:
an outer encasement housing drive bays (Fig.4 and Fig.5; a modular server architecture 400, including a chassis 401 with a set of eight slots 403-1 through 403-8 (collectively, slots 403)) configured to receive respective disk drives (section 0045; The storage servers 407 may comprise Dell Insight storage pools (e.g., JBOD or other storage pools). In the FIG. 4 example, each of the storage servers 407 accommodates up to 16 HDDs or other storage devices, which are assigned to different ones of the blade servers 405 as illustrated (e.g., with six storage devices being assigned to each of the blade servers 405-1 through 405-4, and with four storage devices being assigned to the blade server 405-5 and the blade server 405-6)), the drive bays comprising respective power and data connections for operation of the respective disk drives installed in the drive bays (section 0003;The chassis may also include one or more power supplies for powering the blade servers and storage servers installed in the chassis);
a memory on which is stored media files usable to generate respective instructional content related to performing respective service operations with respect to the storage enclosure (section 0046; section 0049 and sections 0064-0067; The storage sled 510 includes storage drives 515-1, . . . , 515-S (collectively “storage drives 515”), SAS expanders 516-1 and 516-2 (collectively “SAS expanders 516”), SAS re-drivers 517-1 and 517-2 (collectively “SAS re-drivers 517”), and a Fab-C connector 520);
a network interface (section 0043 and Fig.14); and
an embedded controller configured to detect a triggering event signaling an uploading process, and, in response to detection of the triggering event, upload, via the network interface to an external device for storage thereon, the media files (section 0067; Once an upload task is completed, the user makes the selection of the settings that need to be restored and triggers the restore task. The restore task creates a restore job that can be tracked and monitored by the user via control module 906).
Regarding claim 4, Sethi teaches the media files comprise videos depicting the instructional content, and wherein the videos show respective correct ways to perform the respective service operations (section n0082; The processor 1410 may comprise a microprocessor, a microcontroller, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a central processing unit (CPU), a graphical processing unit (GPU), a tensor processing unit (TPU), a video processing unit (VPU) or other type of processing circuitry).
Regarding claim 5, Sethi teaches the media files comprise respective groups of images depicting the instructional content, and wherein the respective groups of images, when rendered, display respective visual step-by-step guides to performing the respective service operations (section 0027; one or more input-output devices such as keyboards, displays or other types of input-output devices may be used to support one or more user interfaces to the modular server 106, as well as to support communication between the modular server 106 and other related systems and devices not explicitly shown).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 10-18 are allowed.
Claims 2-3, 6-9 and 20 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
The limitations not found in the prior art of record include the triggering event comprises the storage enclosure having been determined to have established an initial connection with the external device, wherein the external device comprises a primary controller configured to manage storage resources associated with the storage enclosure and other storage video enclosures other than the storage enclosure, and wherein the memory comprises a read-only memory in combination with the other claimed limitations as described in the claim 2.
The limitations not found in the prior art of record include the triggering event comprises the embedded controller being determined to have received a request from the external device; wherein the external device comprises a primary controller configured to manage storage resources associated with the storage enclosure and other storage enclosures other than the storage enclosure, and wherein the memory comprises a read-only memory in combination with the other claimed limitations as described in the claim 3.
The limitations not found in the prior art of record include the media files comprise respective images showing respective locations for respective components within the storage enclosure, the respective images comprising respective graphical annotations that visually emphasize the respective components in relation to respective surrounding components in combination with the other claimed limitations as described in the claim 6 (claims 7-9 are depended on claim 6).
The limitations not found in the prior art of record include the external device comprises a primary controller configured to manage storage resources associated with the storage enclosure and other storage enclosures other than the storage enclosure, wherein the media files comprise respective groups of images depicting the instructional content, and wherein the respective groups of images, when rendered, display respective visual step- by-step guides related to performing the respective service operations in combination with the other claimed limitations as described in the claim 20.
The limitations not found in the prior art of record include the primary controller is further configured to: receive the media files uploaded from each of the storage enclosures; monitor respective operational statuses of the storage enclosures; as a result of monitoring the respective operational statuses and based on a defined criterion, detect a second triggering event signaling a service request applicable to an identified storage enclosure of the storage enclosures; match the service request to a corresponding service operation of the respective service operations; based on the service request being matched to the corresponding service operation, identify a select media file from the media files uploaded from the identified storage enclosure that comprises instructional content of the respective instructional content applicable to performing the corresponding service operation; and initiate rendering, via a graphical user interface connected to the primary controller, the instructional content contained in the media file in combination with the other claimed limitations as described in the claim 10 (claims 11-18 are depended on claim 10).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Jenkins et al., US 2012/0271996 A1 teaches a method for memory resource provisioning using SAS zoning can include a serial attached Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (SAS) switch and a provisioning manager (PM) executing on the SAS switch.
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