The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

The positive examples closest to the computer field are as follows: Example 21 is held eligible because of “solving an Internet-centric problem” similar to DDR Holdings.

The examples are also not clear on when something would qualify as an abstract idea. for example, example #4 is an abstract idea (but rescued by “something more”) where example #1 is not abstract.