DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This office action is in response to claims in application 18/315,16 filed on 5/11/2023.
The instant application claims benefit to provisional application #63/341,745 with a priority date of 5/13/2022.
The Pre-Grant publication # 20230368687 is published on 11/16/2023.
Claims 1-3 are pending.
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 2 is 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 2 recite “picture of PA” without description of what PA stands for . The claims thereof become indefinite. Appropriate Corrections would be needed.
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 1-3 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. The claimed invention is to a process (claim 1--12) with computer devices and network. Thus fall within one of the four statutory categories (Step 1: YES).
Claims 1-3 are directed toward a computer-implemented method for assessment of phonological awareness, displaying images on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), wherein the one or more images represent one or more words, receiving response from a subject as to whether the subject knows the specific word for each of the one or more images. In response specific word added to a list of known words for the subject. All of these involve steps drawn to concept categorized as an actions that are receiving, observing, identifying, evaluating and judging of textual and image inputs. A concept that are mental processes and by including generating response and comparisons they are like organizing of certain human activities. Input and analysis and output. There is possible some machine-learned model could also be categorized as a use mathematical calculations within some mathematical concepts They are generally categorized as a grouping of an abstract idea (Step 2A: Prong 1 YES).
The claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to be significantly more than the judicial exception because the limitations of relies on servers for processing and data storage for a designer or administrator. Compatibility with various computing devices, including but not limited to computers, tablets, mobile phones, and other smart devices enabling educational activities to be achieved in a multi-tenant distributed environment based on simultaneous and single input, interaction and calculations. They are merely use of generic computer functions and computer parts. Hence not indicative of integration of a practical application (Step 2A: Prong 2 No).
The steps in the recited claims that are highlighted are a well-understood, routine, and conventional activities known in art. Fig. 26 of the instant specification depict a hardware/ software in a standard networked computational environment with control panel implement the learning and evaluating process as claimed here. As an example in case of Versata Dev. Group, Inc. v. SAP Am., Inc., 793 F.3d 1306, 1334, 115 USPQ2d 1681, 1701 (Fed. Cir. 2015); OIP Techs., 788 F.3d at 1363, 115 USPQ2d at 1092-93, the activities of storing and retrieving of information in a memory of consumer electronic for a field of use purposes are recognized to be computer functions well-understood, routine, and conventional, when they are claimed in a merely generic manner. Further, there found to be no additional elements here in the claim recitation that improves the functioning of a computer itself to overcome the abstract idea rejection. They do not improve the functionality of the computer or another technology (Step 2B: No). Hence the claims are found to be patent ineligible under 35USC101. Considerations.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(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.
Claims 1-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) and 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by US 20060046232 A1 to Peter.
Claim 1. Peter teaches a computer-implemented method for assessment of phonological awareness (Para 0014 diagnostic system and method can evaluate one or more phonological awareness, phonological processing and reading skills of an individual to detect phonological awareness ), the computer-implemented method comprising:
displaying, by one or more computer processors, one or more images on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), wherein the one or more images represent one or more words (Fig.2 images and words);
receiving, by the by one or more computer processors, a response from a subject as to whether the subject knows the specific word for each of the one or more images (Para 0042 display device is to provide constant, real-time visual inputs of the subject of the speech to the learner; a learner hears speech, an automatic translation system turns it into text or some more sophisticated and helpful graphical information);
responsive to the subject knows the specific word for any of the one or more images, adding, by the by one or more computer processors, the specific word to a list of known words for the subject (Para response to the spoken input may be implemented in accordance with the predetermined meaning of the permitted input phrase. The system response may be implemented according to the phrases that the system knows the user was trying to say, even while the system recognizes the departure of what the user said from the input phrase the user was attempting);
displaying, by the by one or more computer processors, one or more known item images on the GUI, wherein the one or more known item images are based on the list of known words for the subject (Para 0023 Visual display operative to display images correlated with corresponding sounds to a non-static user positioned in a line-of-sight from the at least one display, and, by the user, viewing each image in close temporal proximity to hearing its corresponding sound); and
determining, by the by one or more computer processors, a picture of phonological awareness that is disentangled from word familiarity based on the one or more known item images (Para 0026-0028 user is a child and the step of providing includes providing a display positioned on a caregiver in the line-of-sight if user is a hearing impaired user pronouncing the corresponding sounds and the step of providing at least one visual display operative to continuously display images correlated with corresponding sounds includes providing images selected from the group consisting of tone, volume and other aspects of sound analysis; displaying an image on the display while essentially simultaneously sounding a corresponding sound that defines the image, whereby, the positioning and sounding actions mimic a natural, live-learning environment for the acquisition of language skills).
Claim 2. Peter teaches a system for assessment of phonological awareness, the method Para 0014 diagnostic system and method can evaluate one or more phonological awareness) comprising:
a network; and one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices configured to: show a test subject images of words (Para 0047 computer accessories);
receive a response from the subject as to whether the subject know the word (Para 0016 system knowing the words); and show the test subject items with words known by the subject to provide a picture that is disentangled from word familiarity (Para 0049-0050 picture details disentangled from word familiarity) .
Claim 3.peter teaches a method for assessment of phonological awareness (Para 0014 diagnostic system and method can evaluate one or more phonological awareness), the method comprising: showing a test subject images of words; receiving a response from the subject as to whether they know the words; and showing the test subject items with words known by the subject to provide a picture of phonological awareness that is disentangled from word familiarity (Para 0047-0050 images correlated with respective sounds and provide a picture of phonological awareness).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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/S.Z/Examiner, Art Unit 3715 September 6, 2025
/XUAN M THAI/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3715