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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
2. In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
3. Claim(s) 1-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by SANCHEZ et al (2020/0186893).
As to claims 1-20, SANCHEZ discloses systems and methods for gamification for real-time instructional commenting and further discloses a computer implemented method for augmenting a live broadcast of a sporting event comprising:
receiving or generating a data stream of a live broadcast of a sporting event; generating commentary on the live broadcast in real time at a plurality of different levels of knowledge of the sport of the sporting event being broadcast (figs.1-15, Abstract, [0016-0021]), the media guidance app (MGA) identifies videos generate by viewers watching a live sprots event and generates relevant commentary for the live video broadcast; further generates social media textual comments or posts and other online commentary;
determining a knowledge level of the sport of a user; and providing the generated commentary at one of the plurality levels of knowledge of the sport to a user in real time based on the determined knowledge level of the sport of the user; wherein the commentary on the live broadcast is provided on a social media service to enable collaborative explanation of sporting events at different levels by subscribers of the social media service; including generating real-time translation of the generated commentary at a plurality of different levels of knowledge in a plurality of languages and providing the translated commentary on the live broadcast at one of the plurality levels of knowledge of the sport to a user in real time based on the determined knowledge level of the user (figs.1-15, [0016-0020], [0027-0033], [0049-0054], [0062-0067], [0074-0054] and [0140-0145]), generates explanatory commentary using different audio signature various social media comments; explanatory graphics, a language of the explanatory based on the determined level of knowledge of the user or based on preferences of the users; the MGA may receive additional input from the user indicating lack of understanding of various segments of the videos being watch and further receive additional clarification
As to claims 4-5, SANCHEZ further discloses that wherein the generating real-time translation of the generated commentary is based on a custom pretrained generative AI service; including automatically transitioning the generated commentary provided to the user from one level of knowledge of the sport to another level of knowledge of the sport, and wherein the automatically transitioning is based on an in-built knowledge testing of the user about the sporting event, wherein the in-built testing comprises at least one of a number of explanations attended past a specified threshold, and a number of comments from viewers that are matched with known explanations stored in a database ([0013-0016], [0059-0060] and [0117-0118]), the MGA learnings from activity of users or viewers to determine the likelihood of a viewer requesting for further explanatory commentary based on the level(s) of knowledge.
As to claims 4-5, SANCHEZ further discloses wherein determining a knowledge level of the sport being broadcast of a user comprises predicting the user's level of knowledge based on other sporting events they have watched; further including providing the generated commentary on the live broadcast at the plurality levels of knowledge of the sport to a plurality of users in real time based on a determined knowledge level of the users in a shared real or virtual environment ([0013-0016], [0059-0060] and [0117-0118]), social media comments.
As to claims 8-11, the claimed “A computer system for augmenting live broadcast…” is composed of the same structural elements that were discussed with respect to claims 1-3
Claims 12-13 are met as previously discussed in claims 4-5.
Claim 14 is met as previously discussed in claim 6
As to claims 15-17, the claimed “A computer program product…” is composed of the same structural elements that were discussed with respect to claims 1-3
Claims 18-19 are met as previously discussed in claims 4-5.
Claim 20 is met as previously discussed in claim 6
Conclusion
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/ANNAN Q SHANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2424
ANNAN Q. SHANG
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