DETAILED ACTION
Response to Amendment
This Final office action is in response to Applicant’s amendment filed 8/6/2025. Claims 29, 44 and 46-50 have been amended. Claims 51-53 have been added. Claims 29, 32, 39 and 42-53 are pending.
The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent provisions.
Regarding the previously pending 35 USC 101 rejection, the claims as a whole, recite additional elements that integrate the judicial exception into a practical application, under Prong Two of Step 2A of the Alice analysis.
Specifically, amended claim independent claim 29 recites “establishing a persistent bidirectional communication channel between the central server and the first mobile device” and “sending, by the central server, the retrieved first set of event data to the first mobile device through the persistent bidirectional communication channel using chunked transfer encoding to optimize network bandwidth, wherein the first mobile device stores the retrieved first set of event data in a database”.
Additionally, it is noted that the amended claim limitations are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as discussed below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 29, 32, 39 and 42-53 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Amended independent claim 29 recites “establishing a persistent bidirectional communication channel between the central server and the first mobile device” and “sending, by the central server, the retrieved first set of event data to the first mobile device through the persistent bidirectional communication channel using chunked transfer encoding to optimize network bandwidth, wherein the first mobile device stores the retrieved first set of event data in a database” (emphasis added).
There does not seem to be any mention or support for a persistent bidirectional communication channel, and the persistent bidirectional communication channel using chunked transfer encoding to optimize network bandwidth, in the originally filed specification. Clarification is required.
Dependent claims 32, 39 and 42-53 are rejected based upon the same rationale.
Additionally, the entirety of new dependent claims 51-53 recite limitations that do not seem to be supported be the originally filed specification. Clarification is required.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 29, 32, 39 and 42-53 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
With respect to amended independent claims 29, none of the prior art of record, taken individually or in any combination, teach inter alia, “establishing a persistent bidirectional communication channel between the central server and the first mobile device” and “sending, by the central server, the retrieved first set of event data to the first mobile device through the persistent bidirectional communication channel using chunked transfer encoding to optimize network bandwidth, wherein the first mobile device stores the retrieved first set of event data in a database”. Also, see Applicant’s Remarks.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/ANDRE D BOYCE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3623 November 8, 2025