DETAILED ACTION
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 .
This Office Action is responsive to communication filed on 03/26/2025.
Claims 1 was cancelled. Claims 2 – 21 are currently pending.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 03/18/2025 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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Claims 2 – 21 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 - 20 of U.S. Patent No. 12,265,530. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because subject matters claimed in instant application can also found in patent’ ‘530.
Certain limitations found in claim 1 of ‘530 but not in claim 1 of instant application such as “identifying, via one or more backend application programming interfaces (APIs), one or more newly released documents that include data for one or more users; automatically ingesting, via an ingestion call executed via the one or more backend APIs in response to the identifying, the one or more newly released documents; automatically generating metatags corresponding to a plurality of attributes of data stored in the non-relational database”.
It would have been obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claim invention to broaden the claim at no additional cost in development.
The following is the table comparison between claim 1 of instant application and patent ‘530.
Instant application ‘603 Patent ‘530
A method, comprising:
A method for automatically ingesting newly released documents and storing data extracted from the newly released documents in an established non-relational database for conversion into a different format, the method comprising:
identifying, via one or more backend application programming interfaces (APIs), one or more newly released documents that include data for one or more users;
automatically ingesting, via an ingestion call executed via the one or more backend APIs in
response to the identifying, the one or more newly released documents;
extracting, using a computer vision model, a set of data from one or more newly released
documents, wherein the extracting includes identifying one or more locations within the one or more documents from which to extract information, wherein the computer vision model is trained by inputting at least a previously stored document, a document type for the previously stored document, and a document template corresponding to the document type into the computer vision
model;
extracting, using a computer vision model trained on a plurality of different types of
documents, a set of data from the one or more newly released documents, wherein the extracting includes identifying one or more locations within respective ones of the one or more documents from which to extract information, wherein the computer vision model is trained by inputting at least a
previously stored document, a document type for the previously stored document, and a document template corresponding to the document type into the computer vision model;
storing the extracted set of data in a database, wherein the database stores data extracted
from ingested documents for a plurality of users in a text-based object format; and
storing the extracted set of data in the established non-relational database storing data extracted from previously ingested documents for a plurality of users in a text-based object format;
automatically generating metatags corresponding to a plurality of attributes of data stored in the non-relational database; and
converting, by inputting a set of metatags into a machine learning model, data corresponding to a given user from the text-based object format to a queryable file format sorted
according to the set of metatags.
converting, by inputting the automatically generated metatags into a machine learning model trained on a plurality of metatags, data corresponding to a given user from the text-based object format to a queryable file format that is sorted by the automatically generated metatags.
Conclusion
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/CAM LINH T NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2161