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 .
Relevant Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Dasher (US 2025/0000448) discloses adjusting scenes based on user sleep state. Mi (US 2021/0350765) teaches adjusting display based on ambient lighting.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 9-14 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Dasher and Mi do not specifically disclose claim 9: “receiving a list of trigger conditions of a user indicating maximum audiovisual thresholds; comparing the upcoming portion of content and the ambient conditions with the list of trigger conditions associated with the user; and changing, based on the comparing, the output of the content”.
Claim Objections
Claims 15-20 are objected to because of the following informalities: Claim 15 states “receiving, by a computing device, sensor information ambient conditions of a user’s environment” This is grammatically incorrect and there is a word missing between “sensor information” and “ambient conditions”. Appropriate correction is required.
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 1-8 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 environmental device”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It is unclear as to whether “the environmental device” is referring to the device that “output to a user in an environment” (first limitation of claim 1) or whether “the environmental device” is a device that is associated with the “ambient conditions in the environment”.
Conclusion
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/MICHAEL H HONG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2426
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