DETAILED ACTION
This is responsive to the RCE filed 22 June 2026.
Claims 1-3, 6, 8-11, 13, 15-18, 20, 23, 25-28 and 30 remain pending and are considered below.
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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claims 1-3, 6, 8-11, 13, 15-18, 20, 23, 25-28 and 30 have been considered but are moot in view of the new grounds of rejection herein below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Claims 1-3, 6, 8-11, 13, 15-18, 20, 23, 25-28 and 30 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.
Claim 1, in lines 26-29, recites the limitation “wherein the plurality of stitching options comprises at least a first stitching option that orders the plurality of scenes by a story line and a second stitching option that orders the plurality of scenes by a relevance score”.
In the relevant paragraph, the original specification at most discloses “A user can select different ways to stitch together non-contiguous scenes, e.g., by story, timeline, by relevance” ([0046] of Published Specification). But the reference does not disclose that either option performs an ordering of the scenes, much less that the “by relevance” option orders them according to the relevance scores disclosed elsewhere. No prior art was found disclosing the new matter.
Independent claims 8 and 15 suffer from the same deficiency and are therefore likewise rejected. The dependent claims are rejected for depending upon a rejected claim without providing a remedy.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Patil et al. (US 2013/0195422) discloses receiving a search query that includes one or more attributes; evaluating a plurality of video files; identifying video clips within the video files that have one or more of the search attributes; and creating a video report comprising a contiguous sequence of the video clips, where the video clips are stitched together according to a stitch criterion. In more particular embodiments, the method can include providing a user interface configured for receiving feedback associated with the plurality of video files.
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