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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 .
This communication is in response to Application 19/230,721 filed on 6 June 2025 and is a continuation application and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to U.S. Patent Application No. 18/554,090, filed on October 5, 2023, which claims priority to International Application No. PCT/JP2021/015930, filed on April 19, 2021.
Claims 1-7 are pending.
Claim Objections
Claim 1 is objected to because of the following informalities: the claim recites the term arrogation. While the term is stated once in the Specification [0010]. Examiner would like to clarify if Applicant meant “aggregation” and if so, appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
Claims 1-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kim (US 2018/0032829), in view of Raindel et al (US 2018/0067893).
Regarding claim 1, Kim teaches data processing system comprising: a local arrogation node including:
first processing circuitry configured to aggerate data captured by a plurality of cameras (Kim [0005] provides “One aspect of the present invention provides a system for collecting event data, the system including: a plurality of cameras, each configured to collect and store image data in a storage medium, generate data identification information including at least one piece of information selected from the group consisting of information on a time at which the image data is collected, information on a location at which the image data is collected, and orientation information of the camera, and transmit the data identification information periodically or at a specific time point via a wired or wireless network; and a service server configured to determine at least one target camera storing image data related to a specific event among the plurality of cameras using the data identification information and event information including a time at which the event has occurred and a location at which the event has occurred and receive the image data related to the event from the target camera”).
Kim teaches the above including memory devices but Kim does not explicitly teach a first remote direct memory access network interface card (RDMA NIC) configured to transmit the data to a remote node using RDMA; and the remote node including: a second remote direct memory access network interface card (RDMA NIC), and second processing circuitry configured to perform predetermined processing on the data through the second RDMA NIC. However, in a similar field of endeavor, Raindel teaches a first remote direct memory access network interface card (RDMA NIC) configured to transmit the data to a remote node using RDMA (Raindel [0007] provides “An originating host device in a distribution chain upstream from multiple host devices is provided. The multiple host devices include an intermediary host device and a terminating host device. The originating host device includes a core and a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface card (NIC). The core includes a generation application. The generation application is configured such that the core of the originating host device (i) determines a plan for transferring data between the originating host device and the other host devices, and (ii) generates work queue elements (WQEs) to implement the plan. The first RDMA NIC includes a read application, a descriptor application, and a reception application. The read application is configured such that the RDMA NIC reads the WQEs from a first memory. The descriptor application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC (i) remote direct memory accesses a second memory of the intermediary host device including writing a first portion of the WQEs directly from the first RDMA NIC to the second memory, and (ii) triggers a second RDMA NIC of the intermediary host device to process the first portion of the WQEs stored in the second memory. The reception application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC receives an acknowledgement signal or a portion of the data from the terminating host device, where the acknowledgement signal indicates transfer of the data is completed”);
and the remote node (Raindel [0007]) including:
a second remote direct memory access network interface card (RDMA NIC), and second processing circuitry configured to perform predetermined processing on the data through the second RDMA NIC (Raindel [0007] provides “An originating host device in a distribution chain upstream from multiple host devices is provided. The multiple host devices include an intermediary host device and a terminating host device. The originating host device includes a core and a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface card (NIC). The core includes a generation application. The generation application is configured such that the core of the originating host device (i) determines a plan for transferring data between the originating host device and the other host devices, and (ii) generates work queue elements (WQEs) to implement the plan. The first RDMA NIC includes a read application, a descriptor application, and a reception application. The read application is configured such that the RDMA NIC reads the WQEs from a first memory. The descriptor application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC (i) remote direct memory accesses a second memory of the intermediary host device including writing a first portion of the WQEs directly from the first RDMA NIC to the second memory, and (ii) triggers a second RDMA NIC of the intermediary host device to process the first portion of the WQEs stored in the second memory. The reception application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC receives an acknowledgement signal or a portion of the data from the terminating host device, where the acknowledgement signal indicates transfer of the data is completed”).
Regarding claim 2, the data processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second processing circuitry is configured to cause a program that performs the predetermined processing to access the data by direct memory access (DMA), or transfer the data by the DMA (Raindel [0007] provides “An originating host device in a distribution chain upstream from multiple host devices is provided. The multiple host devices include an intermediary host device and a terminating host device. The originating host device includes a core and a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface card (NIC). The core includes a generation application. The generation application is configured such that the core of the originating host device (i) determines a plan for transferring data between the originating host device and the other host devices, and (ii) generates work queue elements (WQEs) to implement the plan. The first RDMA NIC includes a read application, a descriptor application, and a reception application. The read application is configured such that the RDMA NIC reads the WQEs from a first memory. The descriptor application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC (i) remote direct memory accesses a second memory of the intermediary host device including writing a first portion of the WQEs directly from the first RDMA NIC to the second memory, and (ii) triggers a second RDMA NIC of the intermediary host device to process the first portion of the WQEs stored in the second memory. The reception application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC receives an acknowledgement signal or a portion of the data from the terminating host device, where the acknowledgement signal indicates transfer of the data is completed”). Motivation provided with reference to claim 1.
Regarding claim 3, the data processing system according to claim 2, wherein the first RDMA NIC is configured to transmit the data to the remote node without using the first processing circuitry (Raindel [0007] provides “An originating host device in a distribution chain upstream from multiple host devices is provided. The multiple host devices include an intermediary host device and a terminating host device. The originating host device includes a core and a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface card (NIC). The core includes a generation application. The generation application is configured such that the core of the originating host device (i) determines a plan for transferring data between the originating host device and the other host devices, and (ii) generates work queue elements (WQEs) to implement the plan. The first RDMA NIC includes a read application, a descriptor application, and a reception application. The read application is configured such that the RDMA NIC reads the WQEs from a first memory. The descriptor application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC (i) remote direct memory accesses a second memory of the intermediary host device including writing a first portion of the WQEs directly from the first RDMA NIC to the second memory, and (ii) triggers a second RDMA NIC of the intermediary host device to process the first portion of the WQEs stored in the second memory. The reception application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC receives an acknowledgement signal or a portion of the data from the terminating host device, where the acknowledgement signal indicates transfer of the data is completed”). Motivation provided with reference to claim 1.
Regarding claim 4, the data processing system according to claim 3, wherein the first processing circuitry is configured to generate a memory region according to a time period in which the data is held (Raindel [0007] provides “The descriptor application is configured such that the first RDMA NIC (i) remote direct memory accesses a second memory of the intermediary host device including writing a first portion of the WQEs directly from the first RDMA NIC to the second memory, and (ii) triggers a second RDMA NIC of the intermediary host device to process the first portion of the WQEs stored in the second memory”; Raindel [0095]). Motivation provided with reference to claim 1.
Regarding claim 5, the data processing system according to claim 4, wherein the first processing circuitry is configured to set a path to communicate with the remote node, and wherein a bandwidth of the path is determined based on a size and an update rate of the data (Raindel [0093] provides “When data is not segmented and/or when data is fully distributed along a distribution chain prior to a distribution of next data occurs, latency L associated with each distribution may be represented by equation 1. S is size (or length) of the data being distributed. BW is bandwidth. H is a number of hops in a chain from an originating host device to a terminating host device”). Motivation provided with reference to claim 1.
Regarding claim 6, this claim contains limitations found within those of claim 1, and the same rationale of rejection applies where applicable.
Regarding claim 7, this claim contains limitations found within those of claim 1, and the same rationale of rejection applies where applicable.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: Feng et al US 2018/0307972.
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/I.R/ Examiner, Art Unit 2459
/TONIA L DOLLINGER/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2459
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