DETAILED ACTION
This is responsive to the RCE filed 04 November 2025.
Claims 1, 5-8, 10 and 13 are currently pending and 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 filed 04 November 2025 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. Applicant argues that the 35 USC 112 rejections have been overcome with the current amendment, however, issues still remain as shown below. Some of the issues were pointed out in the last Office action; some others are caused by the latest amendment.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1, 5-8, 10 and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "the voice input" in line 16. It is unclear if this limitation refers back to the voice input of line 5 or one of the voice inputs of lines 14-15. Note all recitation of “the voice input” after line 16 raises the same problem. The Examiner suggests amending “implementing a voice and transcript layer, wherein the voice and transcript layer processes the voice input to eliminate background noise and amplify voice inputs if the voice inputs are below a certain threshold” to ‘implementing a voice and transcript layer, wherein the voice and transcript layer processes the voice input to eliminate background noise and amplify the voice input[[s]] if the voice input[[s]] are below a certain threshold’ in lines 13-15.
Claim 1 recites the limitation “the intent, entity, context” in lines 44. It is unclear if the limitation refers back to lines 23-25 or lines 41-42.
Claim 1 recites the limitation “the user emotion” in lines 45. It is unclear if the limitation refers back to lines 26-27 or line 43.
Further, it is suggested that “wherein the voice input is detected to be below a specified threshold and then implementing a voice signal amplification before converting the voice input to a text” in lines 6-9 of claim 1 be changed to ‘wherein if the voice input is detected to be below a specified threshold [[and]] then implementing a voice signal amplification before converting the voice input to a text’ for better clarity.
Also, it is suggested that “The method of claim 5, menu or catalog management and upselling ML model is used to check a relevant menu and upsell options and identify an upsell response” in lines 1-2 of claim 6 be changed to ‘The method of claim 5, wherein the menu or catalog management and upselling ML model is used to check a relevant menu and upsell options and identify an upsell response’ for better clarity and to overcome the issue raised above.
Claim 7 recites the limitation “a output” in lines 2-3 which should be amended to ‘an output’.
The dependent claims are rejected for depending upon a rejected parent claim without providing a remedy.
Conclusion
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/SAMUEL G NEWAY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2657