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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 .
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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Application Publication 2024/0171530 to Chen in view of U.S. Patent Application Publication 2023/0132302 to Hu et al.
Chen ‘530 disclose:
As concerns claim 1, a Smart Network Interface Card (SmartNIC) offloading based remote memory system, comprising:
a compute node (Fig. 1, 10; Fig. 2), a SmartNIC (0078-102 may be a smart NIC) and a memory node (Fig. 1, 20n-storage node; Fig. 2),
wherein the compute node sends a remote memory access request (0042-RDMA request) to the SmartNIC;
the SmartNIC is used to parse (0079-0080-extract, splits received data) the remote memory access request and access the memory node;
the memory node is used to initialize and save remote memory (0039-store data; 0042-writes data into storage device);
the SmartNIC comprises
a remote memory access request handling module (0078-106 offloading processor),
a data address management module (0079-schedules, write address; 0081) and
a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication front end (Fig. 3, 301-interface for smartNIC to receive data and address from processor on compute node; Fig. 5, 106 processor on smartNIC; BRI of “front end”, limitations from specification are not read into the claims and the claims do not further define the term), and
the memory node comprises an RDMA communication back end (Fig. 2-NIC at storage node; BRI of “back end”, limitations from specification are not read into the claims and the claims do not further define the term); and
Chen ‘530 do not disclose:
the stage of use of the remote memory system comprises an initialization stage, an application registration stage and a running stage.
Hu et al. ‘302 teach:
the stage of use of the remote memory system comprises an initialization stage (0128; 0012-0013), an application registration stage (0133) and a running stage (0193-exeuction).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the invention to provide the system of Chen ‘530 with use stages, as taught by Hu et al. ‘302, in order to smoothly perform operations (0014).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See PTO-892. U.S. Patent Application Publication 2009/0113143 disclose: 0029-address management module 52, RDMA manager 54.
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