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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 .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-8 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.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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, 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.
Claim(s) 1 and 2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kwan (US Pub No. 2020/0337651 A1) in view of Stahel et al. (Stahel; US Pub No. 2020/0058387 A1).
As per claim 1, Kwan teaches an Al-based system for providing care services, comprising:
a radar sensor that is installed in a specific space, obtains, in the specific space, life signals including information on whether the user is in the space, the user’s movements, the user’s breathing, and the user’s heart rate without being in contact with a user (paragraph [0072], lines 20-30: obtain respiration rates, heart rates and movement information with respect to user sleeping in a bed using radar systems), and obtains information about the user's body temperature among the life signals by being in contact with the user (paragraph [0072], lines 3-7);
… the radar sensor… the information obtained by the radar sensor (paragraph [0072], lines 28-29)…
a monitoring server that receives the life signals collected by the radar sensor and analyzes the received life signals to monitor the specific space (Fig. 1, Central Processing System 108, Transceiver 106; paragraph [0055]: radar sensing device; paragraph [0056]: central processing system), senses an emergency that has occurred to the user and checks whether the emergency has actually occurred through the artificial intelligence speaker (paragraph [0126], lines 1-11), and then provides an alarm about the emergency (paragraph [0082]); and
a user terminal (paragraph [0071], lines 5-6) linked to each of the radar sensor, the artificial intelligence speaker, and the monitoring server through a dedicated application (paragraph [0054], lines 1-16).
Kwan does not expressly teach an artificial intelligence speaker that is linked to the… sensor, outputs a voice message to the user based on the information obtained by the… sensor to determine whether an emergency has occurred to the user, and outputs a voice message to encourage the user to measure his/her body temperature at a specified time to allow the user to get into the habit of measuring his/her body temperature.
Stahel teaches an artificial intelligence speaker that is linked to the… sensor (paragraph [0004]), outputs a voice message (paragraphs [0185] & [0246]) to the user based on the information obtained by the… sensor to determine whether an emergency has occurred to the user (paragraphs [0069]- [0072]), and outputs a voice message to encourage the user to measure his/her body temperature at a specified time to allow the user to get into the habit of measuring his/her body temperature (paragraph [0185]).
It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was effectively filed to implement the reminder process as taught by Stahel, since Stahel states in paragraphs [0194]-[0197] that such a modification would result in monitoring a patient outside of a controlled environment in order to better understand the patient’s health data and any symptoms the patient is experiences.
As per claim 2, Kwan in view of Stahel further teaches the system of claim 1, wherein the radar sensor includes:
a life sensing module that transmits a radar signal into a sensor sensing area formed in front and then receives a reflected signal to measure the life signals (Kwan, paragraph [0072], lines 28-30);
a body temperature measurement module that includes a body temperature sensor and
measures the user’s body temperature when in contact with the user through the body temperature sensor (Kwan, paragraph [0072], lines 3-11); and
a communication module that is connected, through a network, with the artificial intelligence speaker, the monitoring server, or the user terminal to provide a communication function (Kwan, paragraph [0056], lines 30-42).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Hannula et al. (US Pub No. 2022/0167930 A1): similar inventive concept
Kutzik et al. (US Pub No. 2005/0278409 A1): similar inventive concept
Rochford et al. (US Pub No. 2019/0019508 A1): similar inventive concept
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/NAOMI J SMALL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2685