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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 .
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 obviousness-type 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 Omum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement. Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-16 of Patent No. 12/282,490. Although the conflicting are not patentably distinct from each other because since the claims of the Patent No. 12/282,490 contains every element of the claims of the instant application, and as such, anticipate the claims of the instant application. (see table below).
Instant Application claim 1
Patent No. 12/282,490 claim 1
A method comprising:
receiving a set of tuple objects corresponding to relationships between entities in a knowledge graph database;
populating a graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities;
populating a graph link type confirmation area with:
an identification of a first entity of the entities;
an identification of a second entity of the entities; and
a non-activated link type confirmation element configured to, when activated,
confirm a link type relationship between the first entity and the second entity;
receiving activation of the link type confirmation element; and
in response to receiving the activation, updating the graph presentation area.
A method comprising:
presenting a user interface, the user interface including:
a graph presentation area; and
a graph link type confirmation area;
executing a knowledge graph database search query;
in response to the executing;
receiving a set of tuple objects corresponding to relationships between entities in the knowledge graph database;
populating the graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities; and
populating the graph link type confirmation area with;
an identification of a first entity of the entities;
an identification of a second entity of the entities; and
a non-activated link type confirmation element a configured to, when activated,
confirm a link type relationship between the first entity and the second entity;
receiving activation of the link type confirmation element; and
in response to receiving the activation, updating the graph presentation area.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because:
At step 1:
Claims 1-20 is directed to a “system and method for inferred graph data link attestation” and thus directed to a statutory category.
At step 2A, Prong One:
The claims 1, 8 and 15 recite the following limitation directed to an abstract ideas:
“receiving a set of tuple objects corresponding to relationships between entities in a knowledge graph database” recites a mental process as gathering a set of tuple objects corresponding to relationships between entities in a knowledge graph database (the drawing linking between entities).
“populating a graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities” recites a mental process as filling or presenting in paper a graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities.
“populating a graph link type confirmation area with: an identification of a first entity of the entities; an identification of a second entity of the entities; a non-activated link type confirmation element configured to, when activated, confirm a link type relationship between the first entity and the second entity; receiving activation of the link type confirmation element” recites a mental process as filling or presenting in paper a graph link type confirmation area with: an identification of a first entity of the entities; an identification of a second entity of the entities; a non-activated link type confirmation element configured to, when activated, confirm a link type relationship between the first entity receiving activation of the link type confirmation element; and in response to receiving the activation, updating the graph presentation area and the second entity; receiving activation of the link type confirmation element
“receiving activation of the link type confirmation element; and in response to receiving the activation, updating the graph presentation area” recites a mental process as verifying the link type confirmation and update the graph.
The claims 2-7, 9-14 and 16-20 recite the following limitation directed to an abstract ideas:
With respect to claim 2, 9 and 16, the claims recite wherein updating the graph presentation area includes changing a presentation style of a link between the first entity and second entity, it’s a mental process as updating the graph presentation area includes changing a presentation style of a link between the first entity and second entity.
With respect to claim 3, 10 and 17, the claims recite propagating the changed presentation style to at least one other link in the graph presentation area. it’s a mental process as filling or presenting in paper the changed presentation style to at least one other link in the graph presentation area.
With respect to claim 4, 11 and 18, the claims recite where populating the graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities; selecting a presentation style for a link in the graph presentation area based on a priority order of a plurality of possible presentation styles. it’s a mental process as filling or presenting in paper a graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities; selecting a presentation style for a link in the graph presentation area based on a priority order of a plurality of possible presentation styles
With respect to claim 5, 12 and 19, the claims recite receiving an indication of activation of a report generation element; and in response to receiving the indication, generating a data file including a current state of the graph link type confirmation area. it’s a mental process as receiving an indication of activation of a report generation element; and in response to receiving the indication, generating a data file including a current state of the graph link type confirmation area.
With respect to claim 6, 13 and 20, the claims recite the current state of the graph link type confirmation area includes a confirmation status of a link type between the first entity and second entity. it’s a mental process as the current state of the graph link type confirmation area includes a confirmation status of a link type between the first entity and second entity.
With respect to claim 7, and 14, the claims recite determining that a user identifier associated with a current user session is associated with a validator role; and presenting the graph link type confirmation area based on the determination. it’s a mental process as a user identifier associated with a current user session is associated with a validator role; and presenting the graph link type confirmation area based on the determination.
At step 2A, Prong Two:
The claims recite the following additional elements:
That the content management system includes “processing unit” “storage device”, which are high level recitation of generic computer component s and functions and represent mere instruction to apply to a computer as in MPEP 2106.05 (f) which does not provide integration into a practical application.
At step 2B
The conclusions for the mere implementation using a generic computer and mere field of use are carried over and to not provide significantly more.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 would be allowed contingent on overcoming the rejections under 35 U.S.C 101 and double patenting.
With respect to claims 1-20, Kleiman-Weiner et al. (U.S. Pub. 2018/0349517 A1) discloses a method comprising: receiving a set of tuple objects corresponding to relationships between entities in a knowledge graph database (i.e., “ the knowledge graph 208 may include one or more documents represented in the user interface 206 by document icons, along with one or more concepts represented in the user interface 206 by concept icons. To form the knowledge graph 208, these documents and concepts may be associated through relationships such as graph edges that are represented as visual indicators of mentions within the user interface 206”(0034) and “The first concept icon may be associated with a first concept mentioned in the first document and also mentioned in a plurality of other documents in the corpus of documents. As further described herein, the visual indicator may visually associate the document icon with the first concept icon in the display.”(0039) and “A relationship can be described as having a “type” that is defined by a special kind of document that is often called an ontology. The mentions of various concepts in an ontology, such as “member of” may be used to describe relationships between entities, such as “Black Francis was a member of The Pixies.” The two-tuple of (MentionID(Black Francis), MentionID(The Pixies)) may be a more fundamental object. ”(0102));
populating a graph presentation area with representations of the entities and links connecting the representations of the entities (i.e.,” It will also be understood that the recommendation engine 202 may automatically populate the knowledge graph 208 within the user interface 206, or a candidate document, concept, or relationship may be presented to a user through the user interface 206 so that the user can accept, reject, modify, or request clarification of the proposed addition.”(0036) and “A relationship can be described as having a “type” that is defined by a special kind of document that is often called an ontology. The mentions of various concepts in an ontology, such as “member of” may be used to describe relationships between entities, such as “Black Francis was a member of The Pixies.” The two-tuple of (MentionID(Black Francis), MentionID(The Pixies)) may be a more fundamental object. ”(0102)); populating a graph link type confirmation area with: an identification of a first entity of the entities (i.e., “A relationship may be a kind of attribute of an entity. A relationship may be identified by two entities, which are concepts, and therefore substantiated by mentions—at least one mention for each of the two entities. That is, a pair of mentionIDs may be necessary information for identifying a relationship.”(0101)); an identification of a second entity of the entities (i.e., “A relationship may be a kind of attribute of an entity. A relationship may be identified by two entities, which are concepts, and therefore substantiated by mentions—at least one mention for each of the two entities. That is, a pair of mentionIDs may be necessary information for identifying a relationship.”(0101)); updating the graph presentation area (i.e., “As shown in step 316, the method 300 may include updating the knowledge graph or other visual expression of the journal of operations. This may, for example, include updating a data structure that contains information about the knowledge graph (e.g., relationships among documents and concepts, along with substantiating information for such relationships)”(0048)), however, Kleiman-Weiner et al. does not disclose a non-activated link type confirmation element configured to, when activated, confirm a link type relationship between the first entity and the second entity; receiving activation of the link type confirmation element; and in response to receiving the activation,
Citation of Pertinent References
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
The patent to Barlew et al. discloses System for Annotating input data using graphs via a use interface, U.S. Pub. No. 2023/0252006A1.
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/HUNG T VY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163 August 10, 2024