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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 § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Brandt [20210216216], in view of Liu et al [20190121483]
As to claim 1,
Brandt [20210216216] teaches A system comprising:
temperature monitoring circuitry operable to generate a first temperature sample and a second temperature sample [0052: “the processing device generates an average temperature using multiple operating temperature measurements. As described in the examples above, the media temperature manager 113 can read a set of stored operating temperature measurements from the local memory 119 and generate a running average.”]; and
control circuitry coupled to the temperature monitoring circuitry and operable to:
increment a count in response to the first temperature sample satisfying a first temperature threshold [ 0011: “Embodiments track a history of operating temperature measurements to generate an average operating temperature.” and 0035: “the processing device increases the dynamic temperature threshold value in response to determining that the average temperature satisfies the dynamic temperature threshold. For example, if the dynamic temperature threshold is currently assigned a value of 60 degrees Celsius and the average temperature is 30 degrees Celsius, the media temperature manager 113 updates the dynamic temperature threshold to a new value of 65 degrees Celsius. Other embodiments can increase the dynamic temperature threshold by a greater or a lesser amount. ”];
increase the first temperature threshold to a second temperature threshold in response to the first temperature sample satisfying the first temperature threshold [claim 4: “increasing a second dynamic temperature threshold in response to the first average temperature satisfying the first value for the first dynamic temperature threshold. ” and 0035: “the processing device increases the dynamic temperature threshold value in response to determining that the average temperature satisfies the dynamic temperature threshold. For example, if the dynamic temperature threshold is currently assigned a value of 60 degrees Celsius and the average temperature is 30 degrees Celsius, the media temperature manager 113 updates the dynamic temperature threshold to a new value of 65 degrees Celsius. Other embodiments can increase the dynamic temperature threshold by a greater or a lesser amount. ”];
compare the second temperature sample to the second temperature threshold after increasing the first temperature threshold to the second temperature threshold [See fig. 3, step 320 and 335 and 340 , each time 320 satisfied, and step reaches to 340, threshold is increased, and this is in loop, so it can happen until the max value is not reached ]; and
increment the count in response to the second temperature sample satisfying the second temperature threshold.
However, does not explicitly teach increment a count in response to the first temperature sample satisfying a first temperature threshold
Liu et al [20190121483] teaches increment a count in response to the first temperature sample satisfying a first temperature threshold [0075: “The output of the current comparator 910 is provided to counter 920. The counter 920 is configured to increase or decrease a count value. In one embodiment, when I.sub.sense is greater than the first current threshold, a control signal is sent from the current comparator 910 to the counter 920, instructing the counter 920 to increase a count value.”]
increment the count in response to the second temperature sample satisfying the second temperature threshold [0075: “The output of the current comparator 910 is provided to counter 920. The counter 920 is configured to increase or decrease a count value. In one embodiment, when I.sub.sense is greater than the first current threshold, a control signal is sent from the current comparator 910 to the counter 920, instructing the counter 920 to increase a count value.” And 0075: “In one embodiment, when I.sub.sense is greater than the first current threshold, a control signal is sent from the current comparator 910 to the counter 920, instructing the counter 920 to increase a count value. Further, when I.sub.sense is less than the second current threshold, a control signal is sent from the current comparator 910 to the counter 920, instructing the counter 920 to decrease the count value. ”- even when current greater than second threshold, counter can be increased, instead of decreasing when it falls below the second threshold which is a design choice In re Rose, 105 USPQ 237 (CCPA 1955, ]
It would have been obvious to person of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine teaching of Brandt and Liu et because both are directed toward threshold and comparing. Furthermore, Lui improves upon the Brandt by being able to increase the count when the threshold is crossed such that the proper counting of how many time the threshold has crossed the threshold to manage temperature.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 10-20 allowed.
Claim 2-9 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.
Conclusion
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/KESHAB R PANDEY/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2176
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