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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 .
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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.
Claim(s) 33 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticiparted by
Lehtinen et al. (US 2016/0071234).
With regard to claim 1, Lehtinen discloses
A method for decompressing data, comprising: a) acquiring compressed data, wherein the compressed data comprises a plurality of compression blocks connected in series (Fig. 1B, block 142-246)) , wherein the plurality of compression blocks comprise a selected compression block comprising a header (102 Fig. 1A; Fig. 1B header 148) and a data main body connected to the header (Fig. 1B; 140), wherein the header comprises an identifiable feature; b) identifying the identifiable feature to position a corresponding header (a compression block configured to store a header and compressed geometric data for at least two geometric primitives and identifying a location within the compression block of a first set of compressed geometric data for a first geometric primitive of the at least two geometric primitives), and determining one or more to-be-decompressed blocks in the compressed data according to the positioned header, wherein a selected to-be-decompressed block comprises one or more compression blocks of the plurality of compression blocks (106 Fig. 1A); and c) decompressing the selected to-be-decompressed block by a single thread or a plurality of threads (para 65) so as to obtain decompressed compressed data, wherein b) and c) are performed in parallel (Fig. 2; Para 65).
With regard to claim 42 Lehtinen discloses:
42. (New) An apparatus for decompressing data, comprising:a data acquisition unit, configured to perform a) acquiring compressed data, wherein the compressed data comprises a plurality of compression blocks connected in series, (Fig. 1B, block 142-246) wherein the plurality of compression blocks comprise a selected compression block comprising a header (Fig. 1B; 140), and a data main body connected to the header, wherein the header comprises an identifiable feature; a block determination unit, configured to perform b) identifying the identifiable feature to position a corresponding header, (a compression block configured to store a header and compressed geometric data for at least two geometric primitives and identifying a location within the compression block of a first set of compressed geometric data for a first geometric primitive of the at least two geometric primitives), and determining one or more to-be-decompressed blocks in the compressed data according to the positioned header, wherein a selected to-be-decompressed block comprises one or more compression blocks of the plurality of compression blocks ( 106 Fig. 1A); and a decompression unit, configured to perform c) decompressing the selected to-be- decompressed block by a single thread or a plurality of threads (para 65) so as to obtain decompressed compressed data, wherein b) and c) are performed in parallel (Fig. 2; para 65).
With regard to claim 43 Lehtinen discloses:
The apparatus for decompressing data according to claim 42, wherein the decompression unit is further configured to connect, in series, data after decompressing the to- be-decompressed block so as to obtain the decompressed compressed data, and wherein the decompression unit is further configured to perform decompression by the plurality of threads (para 65).
With regard to claim 52, Lehtinen discloses:
52. A computer-readable storage medium, configured to store a program executed by a computer, wherein executing the program comprises implementing a method for decompressing data (para 5), comprising: a) acquiring compressed data, wherein the compressed data comprises a plurality of compression blocks connected in series, (Fig. 1B, block 142-146) wherein the plurality of compression blocks comprise a selected compression block comprising a header and a data main body connected to the header, (Fig. 1B; 140) wherein the header comprises an identifiable feature; b) identifying the identifiable feature to position a corresponding header, (a compression block configured to store a header and compressed geometric data for at least two geometric primitives and identifying a location within the compression block of a first set of compressed geometric data for a first geometric primitive of the at least two geometric primitives), and determining one or more to-be-decompressed blocks in the compressed data according to the positioned header, wherein a selected to-be-decompressed block comprises one or more compression blocks of the plurality of compression blocks (106 Fig. 1A); and c) decompressing the selected to-be-decompressed block by a single thread or a plurality of threads (para 65) so as to obtain decompressed compressed data, wherein b) and c) are performed in parallel (Fig. 2; para 65)..
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 33-41, 44-51 are 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
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to PEGUY JEAN PIERRE whose telephone number is (571) 272-1803. The examiner can normally be reached from 8:00-6:30 PM Monday-Thursday. The examiner’s fax phone number is (571) 273-1803. The Examiner email address is peguy.jeanpierre@uspto.gov. If attempts to reach the Examiner are unsuccessful, the Examiner’s supervisor Dameon E. Levi can be reached at (571) 272-2105.
/PEGUY JEAN PIERRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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