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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on November 9, 2025 complies with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner. Citations which have not been considered, have not been considered because they do not comply with 37 CFR 1.98(b) which states “The date of publication supplied must include at least the month and year of publication, except that the year of publication (without the month) will be accepted if the applicant points out in the information disclosure statement that the year of publication is sufficiently earlier than the effective U.S. filing date and any foreign priority date so that the particular month of publication is not in issue”.
Related applications
Applicant should amend the cross-reference to related applications portion of the specification to update the current status of the cited applications.
35 USC § 101 Statutory Analysis
The claims do not recite any of the judicial exceptions enumerated in the 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance. Further, the claims do not recite any method of organizing human activity, such as a fundamental economic concept or managing interactions between people. Finally, the claims do not recite a mathematical relationship, formula, or calculation. Thus, the claims are eligible because they do not recite a judicial exception.
Claim rejections - 35 U.S.C. §112(b)
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1-8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1-8 fail to recite a critical element described in the specification. The claims recite “a computer system comprising a hardware memory, wherein the computer system is configured to execute software instructions stored on nontransitory machine-readable storage media”, however the claims fail to recite a processor for executing the software instructions. See In re Mayhew, 527 F.2d 1229, 1233, 188 USPQ 356, 358 (CCPA 1976).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-8 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112(b), set forth in this Office action.
Claims 9-16 are allowed.
Reasons for Allowance
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art of the record fail to teach or suggest singly and/or in combination a system and method which provides for receiving spatiotemporal video input comprising video data streams, encode the video input into compressed latent representations within a curved latent manifold using Lorentzian autoencoder processing that preserves spatiotemporal structure and causal relationships, organizing the compressed latent representations in a hierarchical manifold structure comprising nested submanifolds at multiple resolution scales, computing geodesic expansion trajectories that extend beyond the encoded latent representations by solving a constrained variational optimization that minimizes a cognitive action functional comprising kinetic energy terms, compression pressure derived from manifold curvature, and semantic goal potential fields, generating expanded video content by decoding latent trajectories computed along the geodesic expansion paths while maintaining semantic coherence and temporal consistency through geometric constraints imposed by the latent manifold structure, managing computational resources through energy budgeting that allocates finite cognitive energy across expansion operations to prevent uncontrolled generative drift, and providing real-time video reconstruction and augmentation configured to output reconstructed or augmented video streams including zoom beyond original resolution, counterfactual synthesis, and cross-domain generation as prescribed for in the claimed invention.
Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.”
Relevant Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Mehr, Zavoronkovs and Ikonin all disclose systems similar to applicant’s claimed invention.
Contact Information
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to Jose L. Couso whose telephone number is (571) 272-7388. The examiner can normally be reached on Monday through Friday from 5:30am to 1:30pm.
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/JOSE L COUSO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2667
July 23, 2026
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