DETAILED ACTION
This final office action is in response to applicant’s arguments/remarks filed June 03, 2026. Claims 14-22 were previously withdrawn, claims 5, 9, and 23-26 were previously canceled. Claims 11-12 were canceled. Claims 1-4, 6-8, 10, and 13 are currently pending.
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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s claim amendments and arguments, see page 6 on of remarks, filed 06/03/2026, with respect to 35 USC § 112 (b) rejection have been fully considered and are persuasive. The rejection of claims 1-4, 6-8, 10, and 13 under 35 USC § 112 (b) has been withdrawn.
Applicant’s claim amendments to independent claim 1 and arguments (see pages 7-8 of remarks) filed on June 03, 2026 have been fully considered and are persuasive to overcome prior art(s) rejection.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
Claims 1-4, 6-8, 10, and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claims do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because independent claim 1 recites “A system…” but fails to positively recite any structural components, hardware features, or functional elements that are configured to perform. MPEP 2106.03 (I) dictates the Four Categories of Statutory Subject Matter where a machine (also known as a “device”) must be a “concrete thing, consisting of parts, or of certain devices and combination of devices.” Digitech Image Techs. v. Electronics for Imaging, 758 F.3d 1344, 1348, 111 USPQ2d 1717, 1719 (Fed. Cir. 2014). This category “includes every mechanical device or combination of mechanical powers and devices to perform some function and produce a certain effect or result.” Nuijten, 500 F.3d at 1355, 84 USPQ2d at 1501 (quoting Corning v. Burden, 56 U.S. 252, 267, 14 L. Ed. 683, 690 (1854)). As the courts’ definitions of machines, manufactures and compositions of matter indicate, a product must have a physical or tangible form in order to fall within one of these statutory categories. Digitech Image Techs. v. Electronics for Imaging, 758 F.3d 1344, 1348, 111 USPQ2d at 1719 (“For all categories except process claims, the eligible subject matter must exist in some physical or tangible form.”). Claim 1 comprises one or computing resources, a first registry service, a proxy client, and a proxy server but fails to provide the functional elements (hardware/machine components) necessary for “a device/system/machine” to perform such functions. All four components can be interpreted as software only under broadest reasonable interpretation. Therefore, claim 1 fails to fall into one of the four categories of statutory subject matter.
Dependent claims 2-4, 6-8, 10, and 13 which depends upon the system as claimed in claim 1, fails to positively recite any structural components, hardware features, or functional elements that would qualify as statutory subject matter. Therefore, claims 2-4, 6-8, 10, and 13 are also rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 20160277999 A1 (Graves et al.): a system as disclosed herein may further enable the implementation or creation of proxy (i.e., “shadow”) websites which may be associated with one or more destination websites and reside on the hosted server. These proxy websites may be in a position to control a consumer's interaction with a website, at least up until the time that the destination website is actually selected. When a beacon browser (e.g., Google Chrome) scans a physical web beacon configured in accordance with or otherwise compatible with features and parameters as disclosed herein, it queries the hosted server. Originally, the hosted server would act as a redirect server, and would return the destination URL, whereupon the beacon browser would retrieve information (such as for example the website's title, favicon, and description) from that destination website. Instead of the hosted server returning the destination URL, the shadow website on the hosted server in accordance with the exemplary embodiment disclosed herein may hold the connection and return dynamically set information (e.g., title, favicon, description) which are all easily updated by the customer on the host dashboard. When the shadow website is actually selected, the host will then redirect to the final destination URL (via, e.g., a JavaScript window location set, or via HTML5 http refresh with content set). Para. 0118.
US 20230164671 A1 (Vig et al.): The proxy agents 120 may be part of the wireless network 100 controlled by the controller 110, and support AP (access point) and/or STA (station) functionalities. In addition, the proxy agents 120 may be devices which were previously on-boarded to the wireless network 100 (i.e., a MAP R3 network) using the controller 110 or other proxy agent 120. Upon onboarding or upon receiving a DPP URI, the controller 110 may inform each of the proxy agents 120 to enable the CCE IE in its beacon and probe response. In addition, in case that the controller 110 is not reachable directly to the enrollee device 130 or the controller 110 does not handle DPP action frames directly, the existing proxy agents 120 in the wireless network 100 may forward the messages from the enrollee agent to the controller 110 either through proxied or direct encapsulation (encap) 1905 messages. Para. 0033.
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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