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 .
Status of Claims
This Final Office Action is in response to the amendment and remarks filed 12/18/2025, where:
Claims 33 and 43 have been amended; and
Claims 33, 35, 37-43, 45 and 47-52 are currently pending and considered herein.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 33, 35, 37-43, 45 and 47-52 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (i.e., a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea) without significantly more.
Claim 43 recites, wherein the abstract elements are not emboldened:
A system for generating a data analysis report of a multi-parameter monitoring device, comprising: one or more clients, configured to transmit a report generation instruction to an application server, the report generation instruction comprising a client identifier that is configured for indicating a permission of the client the application server, configured to receive multi-parameter data transmitted in real time by the multi-parameter monitoring device; and further configured to receive the report generation instruction transmitted by the client, in a case that the permission of the client is a first mode permission, transmit the multi-parameter data to the client, to allow the client to process the multi-parameter data, so as to generate a multi-parameter analysis report and a report attachment, and in a case that the permission of the client is a second mode permission, process the multi-parameter data to generate the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and transmit the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment to the client, the client is configured to cooperate with the application server for generating the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, wherein the client is installed with data analysis report generation software; and a database server, configured to store the multi-parameter data received by the application server; the application server is further configured to configure a unique identifier for the multi-parameter data after receiving the multi-parameter data transmitted in real time by the multi-parameter monitoring device; the database server comprises a first storage area, a second storage area and a third storage area; wherein, the first storage area of the database server is configured to store the configured unique identifier, and establish a unique identifier index based on the unique identifier; the second storage area of the database server is configured to store the multi-parameter data received by the application server, and mark the multi-parameter data according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; the third storage area of the database server is configured to store the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and mark the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; the multi-parameter monitoring device includes at least a multi-parameter monitor and a multi-parameter monitoring central workstation; wherein the multi-parameter data comprises patient information, waveform data, and numerical data; wherein the generation of the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment comprises: processing the multi-parameter data, to obtain measurement statistical values, analysis statistical charts, time series identifiers, and event identifiers, the measurement statistical values comprising an average value, a maximum value, a minimum value, and a variability analysis value; importing the measurement statistical values, the time series identifiers, the event identifiers, and patient basic information obtained by mapping the unique identifier index into a multi-parameter analysis report framework, to generate the multi-parameter analysis report; and importing the measurement statistical values, the analysis statistical charts, the time series identifiers, the event identifiers, the waveform data, and the numerical data into a multi-parameter analysis report attachment framework, to generate the report attachment; wherein the multi-parameter analysis report is configured for displaying a change trend of each parameter and a data analysis conclusion, and the report attachment is configured for displaying an analysis report of each parameter comprising the waveform data and the numerical data;
the multi-parameter analysis report framework comprises at least a patient basic information area; further comprises: one or more of following parameter data trend analysis areas: a heart rate data trend analysis area, a blood pressure data trend analysis area, a respiratory rate data trend analysis area, a blood oxygen saturation level data trend analysis area, a body temperature data trend analysis area, and a designated data trend analysis area; and a data analysis conclusion area; evaluating changes and severity of a patient's condition, making a clinical decision and formulating a medical treatment plan according to the multi-parameter analysis report.
Independent claim 33 recites substantially similar limitations. The claimed invention is directed to the abstract idea of collecting client information including permission information, analyzing the information, and generating a report and report attachment based on the analyses.
The limitations of “one or more clients, configured to transmit a report generation instruction, the report generation instruction comprising a client identifier that is configured for indicating a permission of the client, configured to receive multi-parameter data transmitted in real time; and further configured to receive the report generation instruction by the client, in a case that the permission of the client is a first mode permission, transmit the multi-parameter data to the client, to allow the client to process the multi-parameter data, so as to generate a multi-parameter analysis report and a report attachment, and in a case that the permission of the client is a second mode permission, process the multi-parameter data to generate the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment to the client; and configured to store the multi-parameter data received, to configure a unique identifier for the multi-parameter data after receiving the multi-parameter data; wherein the multi-parameter data comprises patient information, waveform data, and numerical data; wherein the generation of the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment comprises: processing the multi-parameter data, to obtain measurement statistical values, analysis statistical charts, time series identifiers, and event identifiers, the measurement statistical values comprising an average value, a maximum value, a minimum value, and a variability analysis value; importing the measurement statistical values, the time series identifiers, the event identifiers, and patient basic information obtained by mapping the unique identifier index into a multi-parameter analysis report framework, to generate the multi-parameter analysis report; and importing the measurement statistical values, the analysis statistical charts, the time series identifiers, the event identifiers, the waveform data, and the numerical data into a multi-parameter analysis report attachment framework, to generate the report attachment; wherein the multi-parameter analysis report is configured for displaying a change trend of each parameter and a data analysis conclusion, and the report attachment is configured for displaying an analysis report of each parameter comprising the waveform data and the numerical data; the multi-parameter analysis report framework comprises at least a patient basic information area; further comprises: one or more of following parameter data trend analysis areas: a heart rate data trend analysis area, a blood pressure data trend analysis area, a respiratory rate data trend analysis area, a blood oxygen saturation level data trend analysis area, a body temperature data trend analysis area, and a designated data trend analysis area; and a data analysis conclusion area; evaluating changes and severity of a patient's condition, making a clinical decision and formulating a medical treatment plan according to the multi-parameter analysis report,” as drafted, is a process that, under its broadest reasonable interpretation, is an abstract idea that covers performance of the limitation as organizing human activity including following rules or instructions. The claim recites as a whole a method of organizing human activity because the limitations include a method that allows users to access (medical) data, analyze the data into reports and attachments, and transmitting these data based on the analyses. This is a method of managing interactions between people. The mere nominal recitation of a generic application server, database server, monitoring device, and generic computer processor does not take the claims out of the method of organizing human interactions grouping. The limitations seem to monopolize the abstract idea of patient analysis with a multiparameter monitoring device and general diagnostic techniques between a clinician and her patient that are well-established and conventional. Thus, the claims recite an abstract idea.
This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. In particular, the claim recites the additional elements of the application server, database server, monitoring device, a generic computer processor and client configured to cooperate with the application server for generating the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, wherein the client is installed with data analysis report generation software to perform the claimed analyses of multiparameter data into various reports for authorized clients and the recitation of data transmitted in real time by the multi-parameter monitoring device; and database server that comprises a first storage area, a second storage area and a third storage area; wherein, the first storage area of the database server is configured to store the configured unique identifier, and establish a unique identifier index based on the unique identifier; the second storage area of the database server is configured to store the multi-parameter data received by the application server, and mark the multi-parameter data according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; the third storage area of the database server is configured to store the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and mark the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; and the multi-parameter monitoring device includes at least a multi-parameter monitor and a multi-parameter monitoring central workstation. The devices and clients and software in these steps are recited at a high-level of generality (i.e., as a generic processor/server/storage/display performing a generic computer function of receiving inputs, analyzing the inputs, and displaying selected information) such that it amounts no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using a generic computer component or process. Accordingly, these additional elements do not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application because it does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea. The claim is thus directed to an abstract idea.
The claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration of the abstract idea into a practical application, the additional elements of a client configured to cooperate with the application server for generating the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, wherein the client is installed with data analysis report generation software, processing the multi-parameter data to generate the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and transmitting the multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment to the client and a database server, and multiparameter data into various reports for authorized clients and the recitation of data transmitted in real time by the multi-parameter monitoring device; the database server comprises a first storage area, a second storage area and a third storage area; wherein, the first storage area of the database server is configured to store the configured unique identifier, and establish a unique identifier index based on the unique identifier; the second storage area of the database server is configured to store the multi-parameter data received by the application server, and mark the multi-parameter data according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; the third storage area of the database server is configured to store the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment, and mark the generated multi-parameter analysis report and the report attachment according to the unique identifier of the multi-parameter data; the multi-parameter monitoring device includes at least a multi-parameter monitor and a multi-parameter monitoring central workstation, amounts to no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using a computer component. Mere instructions to apply an exception using a generic computer component cannot provide an inventive concept. The dependent claims do not remedy the deficiencies of the independent claims with respect to patent eligible subject matter. The dependent claims further limit the abstract idea. Claims 35 and 45 further define storing of data and identifying data and merely limits the abstract idea. Claims 37 and 47 include imported statistical values and numerical and data trends for defining the report and further limits the abstract idea. Claims 38 and 48 include click and zoom computer functions and are mere instructions to apply the judicial exception using generic computer components. Claims 39-40 and 49-50 limit the abstract idea and detail where and what type of data are transmitted or received by a server. Claims 41 and 51 include web services for authenticating report generation instructions and further limit the abstract idea. Claims 42 and 52 include a mobile storage device connected to the multiparameter monitoring device and detail the uploading of data at an interface and are merely instructions to apply the exception using generic computer components. The additional limitations from dependent claims merely detail a type of data input or calculated from one source or another, or the sending and receiving and storing and retrieving of information. Therefore, the claims are not patent eligible.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s remarks filed December 18, 2025 have been fully considered, but they are not persuasive. The following explains why:
Applicant’s arguments pertaining to subject matter eligibility are not persuasive. The basis for the previous rejection under 35 U.S.C. §101 is still operative and the claims have been addressed with regard to the updated 35 U.S.C. §101 rejection discussed above, and considered under the 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (2019 PEG). The arguments at pages 13-14 of Applicant’s Response are not persuasive. At pages 13-14 the Examiner disagrees that there a practical application of the abstract idea. The Examiner disagrees there is an improvement to the overall technology. There is no nexus shown between any alleged improvement in the technology. The alleged improvement is not reasonably noted in the Specification, nor is it claimed in the limitations. Furthermore, it appears the limitations of the client, application server and related computing devices for report generation and analyses comprise mere instructions to apply an exception using generic computer components and cannot provide an inventive concept. For at least these reasons and those stated above, the claims are not patent eligible.
Conclusion
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/WILLIAM T. MONTICELLO/Examiner, Art Unit 3682
/FONYA M LONG/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3682