DETAILED ACTION
Response to Amendment
This Office Action is in response to Applicants Amendment filed on October 1, 2025. Claims 1-14 have been amended. Applicants newly add claims 15-18. Claims 1-14 are still pending and presented for further examination. Newly added claims 15-18 are presented for examination.
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 .
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.
Claim 14 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim does not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the claimed program is not a process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, thus its non-statutory subject matter.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-13 and 15-18 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art of record does not teach nor suggest in detail a control system for controlling communication between the monitor unit and a set of remote user units, wherein the control system is adapted to grant different access rights to different users of the remote units, including at least: first access rights for a first remote user or first set of remote users over the Internet for accessing at least one of the collected images or the collected sounds; and second, different, access rights for a second remote user or second set of remote users over the Internet for accessing at least one of the collected images or the collected sounds in combination with all the elements of the independent claims as well as pages 7-11 of Applicants’ remarks filed on October 1, 2025..
The dependent claims further limit the independent claims and are considered allowable on the same basis as the independent claims as well as for the further limitations set forth.
Claim 14 would be considered allowable if the 101 rejection is overcome.
Conclusion
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/LASHONDA JACOBS-BURTON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2457
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January 8, 2026