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Claim Status
Claims 1-6 are pending.
Double Patenting
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Claims 1-2 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 and 2 of U.S. Patent No. 12,405,981 in view of Oyamada in view of Cama (US 2015/0347901) in view of Brockett (US 2023/0205980).
This Application
An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to
perform processes comprising:
18/554,311
An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to
perform processes comprising:
This Application
an acquisition process of acquiring a target text;
18/554,311
an acquisition process of acquiring a target text;
This Application
an extraction process of extracting a document related to the target
text
18/554,311
an extraction process of extracting a document related to the target text
Application 18/554,311 discloses elements of the claimed invention as noted but does not disclose acquiring author information, publication year, and reliability
information for each document;
a quality evaluation process of determining quality ranks of
documents based on the author information and reliability information;
However, Cama discloses:
Cama [0019] The written content generation system 10 obtains data from one or more data sources 12. The data sources 12 may include, for example, a list 14 of one or more trusted websites 16 on the Internet. Such trusted websites 16 may include, for example, websites that have been determined to be reliable sources of information by a community of users (e.g., an analyst community). Each trusted website 16 may be scored, rated, and/or prioritized by a ranking system 18 for reliability and/or trustworthiness based on a number of ranking factors 20, at least some of which may be set by a user. The ranking factors 20 may include, for example, total page views for the website, expertise of the author(s) of the data presented on the website, comments regarding the data presented on the website, crowd-sourced ratings of the website, number of times the data presented on the website has been shared, reputation of the entity associated with the website (e.g., based on Forrester Reports, McKinsey Reports, etc.), other crowd-sourcing metrics, and/or the like.
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify application 18/554,311 to obtain above limitation based on the teachings of Cama for the purpose of generating written content from knowledge management systems, see [0015]
Application 18/554,311 discloses elements of the claimed invention as noted but does not disclose a rewriting process of rewriting the target text with use of the high-
quality documents selected based on the quality ranks. However, 18/554,311 discloses
a rewriting process of rewriting the target text with use of the document, Furthermore, 18/554,311 does not disclose a rewriting process of rewriting the target text with use of the high-
quality documents selected based on the quality ranks. However, Brockett discloses:
Brockett claim 7, The system of claim 1, wherein updating the source document comprises: displaying at least a part of the generated output for the source application; receiving a user indication to approve the generated output for the source application; and in response to receiving the user indication to approve the generated output, updating the source document using the generated output for the source document.
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify application 18/554,311 to obtain above limitation based on the teachings of Brockett for the purpose of multidirectional generative editing, see abstract.
This Application
a generation process of generating a text corresponding to the
rewritten target text with use of a machine learning model trained to
generate a text based on an input text;
18/554,311
a generation process of generating a text corresponding to the
rewritten target text with use of a machine learning model trained to
generate a text based on an input text;
This Application
a calculation process of calculating reliability of the text generated in the generation process; and
18/554,311
a calculation process of calculating reliability of the text generated in the generation process; and
This Application
an output process of outputting a result obtained by adding quality rank information of the high-quality documents and specialty information of authors to the generated text,
18/554,311
an output process of outputting a result obtained by adding information identifying the document to the text generated in the generation process, and of outputting the reliability of the text generated in the generation process
This Application
wherein the calculation process includes referring to a
result obtained by inputting, to the machine learning
model, the text generated in the generation process, the
document extracted in the extraction process, and the
target text acquired in the acquisition process.
18/554,311
wherein the calculation process includes referring to a
result obtained by inputting, to the machine learning
model, the text generated in the generation process, the
document extracted in the extraction process, and the
target text acquired in the acquisition process.
Claim 2
This Application
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the processes further comprise a determination process of determining whether the reliability exceeds a threshold, in a case where the reliability has been determined to exceed the
threshold, the output process includes outputting the result obtained by adding the quality rank information and the specialty information as an optimized result.
18/554,311
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the processes further comprise a determination process of determining whether the reliability exceeds a threshold, in a case where the reliability has been determined to exceed the
threshold, the output process includes outputting the result obtained by adding the quality rank information and the specialty information as an optimized result.
Claim 3
A double-patenting rejection is not possible.
Claim 4
A double-patenting rejection is not possible.
Claim 5
Claim 5 is rejected similarly to claim 1.
Claim 6
Claim 6 is rejected similarly to claim 1.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Xu 2026/0120021
[0059] In step 204, a cue word is generated based on the target text, the cue word is input into an LLM model carried on the agent, the LLM model performs logical reasoning based on the cue word, splits the operation intent into at least one sub-task, and perform a task orchestration for the at least one sub-task to generate a target text sequence including a task description text corresponding to each of the at least one sub-task.
Somasundaram (US 2026/0050732)
[0103] Additionally, as shown in FIG. 10, the document transformation system 106 includes the query generation manager 1010. The query generation manager 1010 manages the generation of queries for input to a language machine learning model to generate a transformed document. In particular, the query generation manager 1010 utilizes query generation language machine learning model 1012 to iteratively refine a target text prompt and generate a text transformation prompt for a language machine learning model 1014. In some embodiments, the query generation manager 1010 iteratively improves the text transformation prompt utilizing Beysian methods. In one or more embodiments, the query generation manager 1010 generates a text transformation prompt which is used by the document transformation manager 1016 to populate placeholders within the target document based on the document hierarchy and named entity classifications.
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