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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 and 11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent No. / U.S. Pre-Grant Publication US-20250350563-A1 to Cho et al. (“Cho”) in view of U.S. Patent No. / U.S. Pre-Grant Publication US-20190260681-A1 to Cavaliere et al. (“Cavaliere”).
As to claim 1, Cho disclose(s) a method comprising:
receiving, at an access network server, data from a transmitting server; (Cho; use plane device receives packets; [0064])
identifying, at the access network server, a data type associated with the data; (Cho; deep packet inspection; [0065])
determining, at the access network server, that the data type is associated with low latency; (Cho; category real-time, ultra-reliable; [0065])
based on, at least in part, the determining that the data type is associated with low latency, determining, at the access network server, a separation distance associated with the access network server and the transmitting server; (Cho; latency budget; [0068])
Cho does not expressly disclose determining, at the access network server, that the separation distance is greater than a distance threshold;
applying a low-latency policy to the data;
and transmitting the data, from the access network server, to a computing device in accordance with the low-latency policy.
determining, at the access network server, that the separation distance is greater than a distance threshold; (Cavaliere; end-to-end latency greater than a threshold; [0076]-[0078]; fig. 5; 504)
applying a low-latency policy to the data; (Cavaliere; assign priority based on latency; [0076]-[0078]; fig. 5; 502)
and transmitting the data, from the access network server, to a computing device in accordance with the low-latency policy. (Cavaliere; route packet; [0076]-[0078]; fig. 5; 506)
At the time of invention, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to combine the low latency packet determination of Cho and the latency priorities of Cavaliere. One of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to combine the teachings as both are concerned with latency. Using the low latency priorities of Cavaliere would allow for low latency applications to be assigned higher priority.
Accordingly, the prior art references teach all of the claimed elements.
Furthermore, it would have been obvious to combine the teachings as all the claimed elements were known in the prior art and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions, and the combination would have yielded nothing more than predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art. “The combination of familiar elements according to known methods is likely to be obvious when it does no more than yield predictable
As to claim 11, Cho-Cavaliere disclose(s) a system comprising:
input/output circuitry configured to:
receive, at an access network server, data from a transmitting server; and processing circuitry configured to:
identify, at the access network server, a data type associated with the data;
determine, at the access network server, that the data type is associated with low latency;
based on, at least in part, the determining that the data type is associated with low latency, determine, at the access network server, a separation distance associated with the access network server and the transmitting server;
determine, at the access network server, that the separation distance is greater than a distance threshold;
apply a low-latency policy to the data;
and transmit the data, from the access network server, to a computing device in accordance with the low-latency policy.
See similar rejection and motivation to claim 1.
Conclusion
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/BRYAN Y LEE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2445
