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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites the limitation: “determining a subset of the plurality of sourceblocks to include in a primary codebook based on occurrence frequency;”. It is unclear from the claim language what the term “occurrence frequency” is referring too and therefore it is unclear what subset of sourceblocks are being included in the primary codebook. The frequency of occurrence of what?
Claim 1 further recites the limitations: “calculating a primary compaction factor for the primary codebook based on a first sum of squared probabilities corresponding to the subset of sourceblocks; calculating a secondary compaction factor for a secondary codebook based on a second sum of squared probabilities corresponding to a predefined set of shorter sourceblocks;”. Both these limitations have a “sum of squared probabilities” calculation. The probabilities that are squared and summed are not described in the claim language. It is unclear how these probabilities are being determined or what they are probabilities of. Therefore it is unclear how the primary and secondary compaction factors are being calculated.
Claim 1 next recites the limitation: “and determining compression performance of the hybrid codebook system based on the combined compaction factor without generating either the primary or secondary codebook.”. It is unclear how the compression performance can be determined from calculations that involve probabilities and without actually generating and using the codebooks. From the specification ([0042], [0070], [0094] and [0126]) it is described that the compression performance is a prediction/estimation/expected performance, not a known determined performance.
Claim 11 has the same issues as claim 1 above and the remaining dependent claims are rejected by virtue of their dependence upon a rejected base claim.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The prior art was searched based upon the inventive concept in the specification.
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/MICHAEL ALSIP/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2139
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