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 .
1. This is in response to the communications filed on 14 October 2025.
2. Claims 1-17 and 21 are pending in the application.
3. Claims 1-17 and 21 have been rejected.
4. Claims 18-20 have been cancelled.
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
5. A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 19 August 2025 has been entered.
Response to Arguments
6. Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1-17 and 21 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
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.
7. Claims 1-17 and 21 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.
Independent claims 1 and 11 include the limitation of “wherein splitting the content includes limiting a maximum number of connected tiles, of the plurality of tiles, in each frame of the first plurality of frames to a predetermined threshold value or less”. After a review of the applicant’s specification the examiner has not found support for the limitation. The specification fails to teach how to make and use the claimed invention without undue experimentation, the scope of any enablement provided to one skilled in the art is not commensurate with the scope of protection sought by the claims.
Any claims not directly addressed are rejected on the virtue of their dependency.
Allowable Subject Matter
8. Claims 1-17 and 21 are allowed over the prior art.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
The closest prior art to the instant application is Karppanen US 2016/0162597 A1. Karppanen is directed to dividing content pages into sections, or “tiles” that can be updated independently of one another, and determining the processing burdens associated with updating and managing such divided content pages, the likelihood that portions of the content pages will change, etc. [abstract]. Karppanen teaches that content is divided into tiles [0011]. Karppanen teaches a threshold amount of space in the combined tile [0011]. Karppanen teaches that the tiles contain pixels [0023]. However, the prior art does not disclose, teach or fairly suggest the limitations of “wherein splitting the content includes limiting a maximum number of connected tiles, of the plurality of tiles, in each frame of the first plurality of frames to a predetermined threshold value or less” and “displaying, on the display device, the first plurality of frames in sequence in accordance with a frame rate”, as recited in independent claims 1 and 11.
Any claims not directly addressed are allowed on the virtue of their dependency.
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
9. The following references have been considered relevant by the examiner:
A. Puri et al US 2015/0016523 A1 directed to techniques related to content adaptive partitioning for prediction and coding [abstract].
B. Bedi et al US 2022/0189069 A1 directed to efficiently storing images that have a common subject, such as product images that share the same product in the image [abstract].
C. Abdo et al US 2013/0208785 A1 directed to dividing a display area having rendered data thereon into a plurality of tiles and determining an update frequency for each tile [abstract].
Conclusion
10. Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to ARAVIND K MOORTHY whose telephone number is (571)272-3793. The examiner can normally be reached M-F 4:30-3:00.
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/ARAVIND K MOORTHY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2407
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