DETAILED ACTION
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 .
The Request for Continued Examination filed on 05/19/2026.
Claims 1, 3-7, 9-13, and 15-21 remain pending.
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 05/19/2026 has been entered.
Information Disclosure Statement
It is hereby acknowledged that the following papers have been received and placed of record in the file:
Information Disclosure Statement(s) as received on 05/19/2026 and 07/21/2026 is/are considered by the Examiner.
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, 3-7, 9-13, and 15-21 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 sharing of the at least one application” in line 14. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "the shared application" in line 15. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 7 recites the limitation “the sharing of the at least one application” in line 16. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 7 recites the limitation "the shared application" in line 17. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 13 recites the limitation “the sharing of the at least one application” in line 16. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 13 recites the limitation "the shared application" in line 17. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
All dependent claims are rejected as having the same deficiencies as the claims they depend from.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Spanton (US 2020/0214081 A1). Receive a request from a third party mobile device associated with a third party user that is not a subscriber of the telecommunications network to access the telecommunications network via the subscriber mobile device; select a certain mobile device to provide shared access based on various known or dynamically changing characteristics assigned to the device; facilitates execution of a smart contract that defines terms between the subscriber mobile device and the third party mobile device.
Bruchlos et al. (US 10,397,342 B2). Processing contract data defining contracts between a service requester and a service provider for services.
Hummer (US 10,817,936 B2). Automatically configuring the smart contract comprises pre-programming a set of settlement rules into the smart contract based on the set of input variables.
May et al. (US 11,606,424 B1). Select a desirable proposal and thus create a Blockchain Smart Contract.
Ketharaju (US 11,682,057 B1). The smart contract may be written to a block chain, exchanged via communication channels between the machines, or otherwise securely stored.
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Kaylee Huang
07/25/2026
/KAYLEE J HUANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2447
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