Patent decision

BL number

O/1045/22

Concerning rights in

GB2018211.9

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

29 November 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Institute for Information Industry

Provisions discussed

PA S 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a federated machine learning system comprising a host which processes training results from clients based on a threshold difference in the number of training rounds and the time taken to receive training results from clients. The hearing officer did not consider there to be a technical effect external to the system in light of Lantana, and no technical problem was solved. The hearing officer considered a contribution which was said to provide a more accurate model and better learning process, but concluded that this was no more than a better computer program. The application was therefore refused.

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