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Claims 1-30 are pending.
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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 .
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for priority of U.S provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e).
Acknowledgment is made of the claim for priority or continuation and divisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 120.
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 double patenting rejection is appropriate where the claims at issue 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 Ornum, 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).
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Claims 1-30 are provisionally rejected on the ground of non-statutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-30 of copending Application No. 19/362,183. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because removing inherent and/or unnecessary limitations/step or adding an element and its function would be within the level of one of ordinary skill in the art. It is well settled that the adding or deleting an element and its function in the present Application such as “semantic” and its function are an obvious expedient if the remaining elements perform the same function as before. In re Karlson, 136 USPQ 184 (CCPA 1963). Also note Ex parte Rainu, 168 USPQ 375 (Bd. App. 1969). Omission of a reference element or step whose function is not needed would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art.
Application No. 19/310,282
Application No. 19/362,183
1. A semantic robotic device system, comprising: a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver; the memory storing a plurality of semantics; the memory further storing at least one affirmative semantic and at least one non-affirmative semantic associated with at least one semantic goal; the processor being configured to: infer a first semantic and a second semantic among the plurality of semantics based on data received via the at least one transceiver; infer a first determination that the first inferred semantic is non-affirmative by having a high entropy with respect to the at least one affirmative semantic at a first time and further infer a second determination that the second inferred semantic is affirmative by semantically matching the second inferred semantic with the at least one affirmative semantic at a second time; infer one or more subsequent semantics after the first time, and further to infer a third semantic among the plurality of semantics, the third semantic being inferred to cause a reduction in the entropy between the one or more subsequent semantics and the at least one affirmative semantic; generate thin client presentation data in rapport with the at least one semantic goal based on the third semantic and the one or more subsequent inferred semantics; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit the thin client presentation data to a remote device.
1. A method for operating a semantic system having a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver, the method comprising: storing a plurality of semantics in the memory; storing a plurality of endpoints in the memory; each of the endpoints being associated with at least one semantic among the plurality of semantics; storing at least one semantic goal in the memory; configuring the processor to: infer a first semantic group comprising a first subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the first semantic group being inferred based on a determination of an affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the first semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; infer a second semantic group comprising a second subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the second semantic group being inferred based on a non-affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the second semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; generate representation data of the first semantic group and the second semantic group; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit the representation data to a remote device.
11. A semantic robotic device system, comprising: a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver; the memory storing a plurality of semantics; the memory storing a user interface control semantic; the memory storing at least one affirmative semantic and at least one non-affirmative semantic associated with at least one semantic goal; the processor being configured to: infer a first semantic and a second semantic among the plurality of semantics based on data received via the at least one transceiver; infer a first determination that the first inferred semantic is non-affirmative by having a high entropy with respect to the at least one affirmative semantic at a first time and further infer a second determination that the second inferred semantic is affirmative by semantically matching the second inferred semantic with the at least one affirmative semantic at a second time; infer one or more subsequent semantics after the first time, and further to infer a third semantic among the plurality of semantics, the third semantic being inferred to cause are duction in the entropy between the one or more subsequent semantics and the at least one affirmative semantic; arrange thin client presentation data associated with the third semantic and the one or more inferred subsequent semantics for display in the user interface control; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit the thin client presentation data to a remote device.
11. A method for operating a semantic system having a processor and a memory, the method comprising: storing a plurality of semantics in the memory; storing a plurality of endpoints in the memory; each endpoint from among the plurality of endpoints being associated with at least one semantic among the plurality of semantics; storing at least one semantic goal in the memory; configuring the processor to: infer a first semantic group comprising a first subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the first semantic group being inferred via a semantic analysis which applies a semantic drift to determine affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the first semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; infer a second semantic group comprising a second subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the second semantic group being inferred via a semantic analysis which applies a high entropy semantic drift to determining a non-affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the second semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; select at least one user interface control based on a first semantic from among the plurality of semantics, the first semantic being associated with the first semantic group; and send data associated with the first semantic group to the at least one user interface control.
20. A semantic robotic device system, comprising: a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver; the memory storing a plurality of semantics; the memory further storing at least one affirmative semantic and at least one non-affirmative semantic associated with at least one semantic goal; the processor being configured to: infer a first semantic and a second semantic among the plurality of semantics based on data received via the at least one transceiver; infer a first determination that the first inferred semantic is affirmative by semantically matching the first inferred semantic with the at least one affirmative semantic at a first time and further based on a determination that the second inferred semantic is non- affirmative by semantically matching the second inferred semantic with the at least one non-affirmative semantic at a second time; infer one or more subsequent semantics after the first time, and further to infer a third semantic among the plurality of semantics, the third semantic being inferred to cause a reduction in the entropy between the one or more subsequent semantics and the at least one affirmative semantic; generate thin client presentation data in rapport with the at least one semantic goal based on the inferred first determination, the second inferred determination and the third semantic; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit the thin client presentation data to a remote device.
21. A method for operating a semantic system having a processor and a memory, the method comprising: storing a plurality of semantics in the memory; storing a plurality of endpoints in the memory; each endpoint from among the plurality of endpoints being associated with at least one semantic among the plurality of semantics; storing at least one semantic goal in the memory; configuring the processor to: infer a first semantic group comprising a first subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the first semantic group being inferred based on a semantic analysis which applies a semantic drift to determine affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the first semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; infer a second semantic group comprising a second subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the second semantic group being inferred based on a semantic analysis which applies a high entropy semantic drift to determining a non-affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the second semantic group and the at least one semantic goal; select at least one user interface control based on a first semantic from among the plurality of semantics, the first semantic being associated with the second semantic group; and generate presentation data associated with the second semantic group for displaying in the at least one user interface control.
27. A semantic robotic device system, comprising: a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver; the memory storing a plurality of semantics; the memory storing a user interface control; the memory storing at least one affirmative semantic and at least one non-affirmative semantic associated with at least one semantic goal; the processor being configured to: infer a first semantic and a second semantic among the plurality of semantics; infer a first determination that the first inferred semantic is affirmative by semantically matching the first inferred semantic with the at least one affirmative semantic at a first time and further based on a determination that the second inferred semantic is non- affirmative by semantically matching the second inferred semantic with the at least one non-affirmative semantic at a second time; infer one or more subsequent semantics after the first time, and further to infer a third semantic among the plurality of semantics, the third semantic being inferred to cause a reduction in the entropy between the one or more subsequent semantics and the at least one affirmative semantic; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit to a remote device generated thin client presentation data associated with the third semantic and the one or more subsequent inferred semantics arranged to be displayed in the at least one user interface control.
28. A method for operating a semantic system having a processor, a memory and at least one transceiver, the method comprising: storing a plurality of semantics in the memory; storing a plurality of endpoints in the memory; each endpoint from among the plurality of endpoints being associated with at least one semantic among the plurality of semantics; configuring the processor to: infer at least one semantic goal indicative of at least one intrinsic purpose for the plurality of endpoints and store the inferred at least one semantic goal in the memory; infer a semantic group comprising a subset of endpoints among the plurality of endpoints, the semantic group being inferred based on a non-affirmative semantic resonance between each member of the semantic group and the inferred at least one semantic goal; generate representation data of the semantic group; and cause the at least one transceiver to transmit the representation data to a remote device.
This is a provisional obviousness-type double patenting rejection because the conflicting claims have not in fact been patented.
Hence, it is obvious that the claimed combination or the narrower claims of the patent would encompass the broader claimed combination of the claims of the instant application.
Conclusion
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Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3665