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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 .
In the response to this Office Action, the Examiner respectfully requests that support be shown for language added to any original claims on amendment and any new claims. That is, indicate support for newly added claim language by specifically pointing to page(s) and line numbers in the specification and/or drawing figure(s). This will assist the Examiner in prosecuting this application.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant's election with traverse of Species I: Figure 9 in the reply filed on 05/04/2026 is acknowledged and is found persuasive. Therefore, the restriction requirement of 03/18/2026 is withdrawn.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 1 and 19-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Application Publication 2018/0324756 A1 to Ryu et al. (hereinafter "Ryu") in view of U.S. Patent Application Publication 2015/0341903 A1 to Jeong et al. (hereinafter "Jeong").
Regarding Claims 1, 19, and 20, Ryu teaches an information processing apparatus (Claim 1; Figs. 1-2; Para. 135-154 of Ryu; electronic device 110 and the at least one wearable device 120 operate while communicating with each other), a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for processing information (Claim 15; Figs. 1-2, 68-69; Para. 135-154, 438-473 of Ryu; electronic device 110 c or the at least one wearable device 120 c may include at least one among a display unit 6910, a controller 6970, a memory 6920… memory 6920 may store various programs and data for operating the electronic device 110 c… controller 6970 of FIG. 69 may correspond to the processor 210 of the electronic device 110 a or 110 b), and a method (Claim 8; Figs. 1-2, 7-8; Para. 135-154, 178-192 of Ryu; electronic device that performs methods of providing a notification according to various exemplary embodiments may be, for example, the electronic device 110 a illustrated in FIG. 2 that includes the processor 210, the notification providing unit 220, and the communication unit 230) comprising: a processor configured to: obtain, after communication with a wearable terminal is established, biological information regarding a user who wears the wearable terminal from the wearable terminal (Claim 1; Figs. 1-2, 7-8, 51-52, 68-69; Para. 135-194, 361-365, 438-473 of Ryu; When a notification event occurs in the wearable device 120 a, the processor 610 informs the electronic device 110 of the notification event…The contents of the notification event may include an increase in a heartbeat… electronic device 110 c or the at least one wearable device 120 c may include at least one among a display unit 6910, a controller 6970, a memory 6920… memory 6920 may store various programs and data for operating the electronic device 110 c… controller 6970 of FIG. 69 may correspond to the processor 210 of the electronic device 110 a or 110 b ); extract, as first setting information from a plurality of pieces of setting information, where operation attributes of functions are set prior to execution of the functions, associated with biological information obtained when the plurality of pieces of setting information were created, a piece of setting information associated with same biological information as newly obtained biological information (Claim 1; Figs. 1-2, 7-8, 51-53, 58-60, 68-69; Para. 135-194, 361-375, 398-411, 438-473 of Ryu; when a heart rate increases and a notification event thus occurs while the wearable device 120 monitors the heart rate… wearable device 120 informs the electronic device 110 of the notification event regarding an increase in the heart rate… wearable device 120 may transmit information regarding a heart rate to the electronic device 110 only when a degree of a change in the information regarding the heart rate is 10% or more… electronic device 110 may transmit a control signal for setting the form of the notification to a device… when the electronic device 110 changes and sets the form of the notification of the smart watch 120-2, information regarding the form of the notification of the smart watch 120-2 is transmitted to the smart glasses 120-1 and the smart watch 120-2. The smart watch 120-2 may also change the form of the notification thereof, based on the information regarding the form of the notification or according to the control signal for setting the form of the notification which is transmitted from the electronic device 110).
Ryu does not explicitly disclose displaying the extracted first setting information on a display while giving priority to the first setting information over other pieces of setting information.
However, Jeong teaches displaying extracted first setting information on a display while giving priority to the first setting information over other pieces of setting information (Figs. 56A-60; Para. 525-578 of Jeong; device 200 may store the notification message reception setting of each mode, and the wearable device 100 may set whether to receive the notification message in the wearable device 100 by selecting the reception setting of each mode that is stored in the device 200… device 200 may set the mode of the wearable device 100 in the device 200. The device 200 may selectively transmit the notification message to the wearable device 100 according to the set mode… in a case where a user selects a mode setting field 5625 of the wearable device 100 in the device 200 and then selects a study mode from among a plurality of mode lists 5645 displayed on the screen, the device 200 may transmit, to the wearable device 100, only the notification message corresponding to the field selected at the time of setting the study mode… communicator 6001 may receive information on whether to prioritize the notification message from the wearable device 100… storage 6003 may store a predetermined notification message transmission setting of the device 200, and may store a notification message transmission/reception setting according to each mode).
Therefore, at the time when the invention was filed, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to include displaying the extracted first setting information on a display while giving priority to the first setting information over other pieces of setting information using the teachings of Jeong in order to modify the device and method taught by Ryu. The motivation to combine these analogous arts would have been to provide a wearable device and a method of setting whether to receive a notification message in the wearable device (Para. 5-7 of Jeong).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-18 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
None of the references, either singularly or in combination, teach or fairly suggest the information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of pieces of setting information is also associated with biological information obtained from the wearable terminal when the piece of setting information was used and a number of times, which is indicated by the obtained biological information, that each of users has used the piece of setting information, wherein the processor is configured to extract, as second setting information, a piece of setting information associated, as the biological information obtained when the piece of setting information was used, with same biological information as the newly obtained biological information, and wherein the processor is configured to display the extracted first setting information and second setting information on the display while giving priority to the first setting information and the second setting information over other pieces of the setting information.
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Conclusion
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/ABHISHEK SARMA/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2621
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