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EP4345696 - DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusExamination is in progress
Status updated on  05.09.2025
Database last updated on 14.03.2026
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  22.08.2024
FormerThe application has been published
Status updated on  01.03.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip06.01.2026New entry: Reply to examination report 
Applicant(s)For all designated states
FUJITSU LIMITED
1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
For all designated states
The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
Banting Institute
100 College Street Suite 413
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L5 / CA
[2024/14]
Inventor(s)01 / CHEN, Sigeng
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 / CA
02 / ROSENTHAL, Jeffrey Seth
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 / CA
03 / SHEIKHOLESLAMI, Ali
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 / CA
04 / TAMURA, Hirotaka
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 223-0066 / JP
05 / DOTE, Aki
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, 211-8588 / JP
 [2024/14]
Representative(s)Hoffmann Eitle
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB
Arabellastraße 30
81925 München / DE
[2024/14]
Application number, filing date23194811.801.09.2023
[2024/14]
Priority number, dateJP2022015552428.09.2022         Original published format: JP 2022155524
[2024/14]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP4345696
Date:03.04.2024
Language:EN
[2024/14]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP20.02.2024
ClassificationIPC:G06N5/01, G06F17/11, G06N7/01
[2024/14]
CPC:
G06N5/01 (EP); G06F17/18 (US); G06F17/11 (EP);
G06N7/01 (EP)
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   ME,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   RS,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2024/39]
Former [2024/14]AL,  AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  HR,  HU,  IE,  IS,  IT,  LI,  LT,  LU,  LV,  MC,  ME,  MK,  MT,  NL,  NO,  PL,  PT,  RO,  RS,  SE,  SI,  SK,  SM,  TR 
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TitleGerman:DATENVERARBEITUNGSVORRICHTUNG, PROGRAMM UND DATENVERARBEITUNGSVERFAHREN[2024/14]
English:DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD[2024/14]
French:APPAREIL DE TRAITEMENT DE DONNÉES, PROGRAMME ET PROCÉDÉ DE TRAITEMENT DE DONNÉES[2024/14]
Examination procedure21.08.2024Examination requested  [2024/39]
21.08.2024Date on which the examining division has become responsible
03.09.2024Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
03.09.2025Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
29.12.2025Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paidRenewal fee
21.08.2025Renewal fee patent year 03
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Documents cited:Search[I] US2021303754  (KANDA KOUICHI et al.)
 [I] US2021319154  (DOTE AKI et al.) [I] 1-7 * paragraph [0054]; figures 1, 6; claim 1 * * paragraph [0033] * * paragraph [0096] - paragraph [0097] * * paragraph [0004] *
 [DA]   SIGENG CHEN ET AL: "Optimization via Rejection-Free Partial Neighbor Search", ARXIV.ORG, CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 201 OLIN LIBRARY CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NY 14853, 15 April 2022 (2022-04-15), XP091211440
 [DA]   ROSENTHAL JEFFREY S ET AL: "Jump Markov chains and rejection-free Metropolis algorithms", COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, PHYSICA VERLAG, DE, vol. 36, no. 4, 13 March 2021 (2021-03-13), pages 2789 - 2811, XP037622638, ISSN: 0943-4062, [retrieved on 20210313], DOI: 10.1007/S00180-021-01095-2

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00180-021-01095-2
Examination  SIGENG CHEN ET AL: "Sampling via Rejection-Free Partial Neighbor Search", ARXIV.ORG, CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 201 OLIN LIBRARY CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NY 14853, 19 October 2022 (2022-10-19), XP091348173
by applicantJP2020135727
   J. S. ROSENTHAL ET AL.: "Jump Markov Chains and Rejection-Free Metropolis Algorithms", COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, vol. 36, no. 4, 2021, pages 2789 - 2811, XP037622638, DOI: 10.1007/s00180-021-01095-2

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00180-021-01095-2
   SIGENG CHEN ET AL.: "Optimization via Rejection-Free Partial Neighbor Search", ARXIV:2205.02083, 15 April 2022 (2022-04-15)
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