DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This Action is responsive to the Application filed on 1/3/2024. Claims 21-39 are pending in the case. Claims 21, 30, and 39 are independent claims. Claims 1-20 have been cancelled.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim 39 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Claim 39 recites a “computer-readable storage medium” storing instructions that perform various functions. In the Specification of the present application, the “computer readable medium” is expressly defined as including any medium that can store program code (see Page 68 Paragraph 0405). An open-ended description of the computer-readable storage medium does not EXCLUDE non-statutory subject matter, i.e. signals/transmission medium, from the claimed invention. Thus, the broadest, reasonable interpretation of “computer-readable storage medium” encompasses non-statutory subject matter (transmission media) that is unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. 101.
Accordingly, claim 39 fails to recite statutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 101.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 21-38 are allowed.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Huang et al. US 20240184597 A1 teaches a wallpaper application program may implement display modes of wallpaper or transition animations in the embodiments of this application. For example, the wallpaper application program may provide a user interface for a user to change wallpaper or a video displayed in a transition animation.
Zhang et al. US 20240069936 A1 teaches an always on display (AOD) method includes: detecting, by an electronic device, a region of interest in a wallpaper set by a user, where the region of interest is located in a first position in the wallpaper; determining, by the electronic device, an AOD pattern based on the region of interest; when the electronic device is in a screen-off state, displaying the AOD pattern in a second position of a display, where the second position is preset; in response to an operation of lighting up the display by the user, moving the AOD pattern from the second position of the display to a third position of the display, where the third position is based on the first position of the region of interest in the wallpaper; and displaying, by the electronic device, the wallpaper.
Chen et al. US 20230070880 A1 teaches providing an always-on-display method and an electronic device. The method includes: displaying, by an electronic device, an always-on-display screen, where the always-on-display screen includes a first image of a first display object; in response to detecting by the electronic device that an external object satisfies a first preset condition, displaying, by the electronic device, a second image of a second display object, where the second image is different from the first image. In the embodiments of this application, the always-on-display screen displayed by the electronic device can change according to the external object. When the external object satisfies a preset condition, a corresponding image or motion video is displayed, so that the always-on-display screen can be flexibly displayed.
Wilson et al. US 20220174145 A1 teaches a method includes: while displaying a wake screen with a first media item as a background and foreground objects displayed over the first media item, detecting first user input that corresponds to a request to display a media gallery; in response to detecting the first user input, ceasing display of the foreground objects; detecting a second user input that corresponds to a request to navigate through media items in the media gallery; in response to detecting the second user input, replacing the first media item with a second media item in the media gallery; detecting a third input that corresponds to a request to dismiss the media gallery; and, in response to detecting the third user input, redisplaying the foreground objects on the display device over a media item from the media gallery that is selected as the background for the wake screen.
Baek et al. US 20210287593 A1 teaches a input image data includes position information of the image, the display driver updates at least a portion of the position information included in the input image data corresponding to at least a partial area of the display area and provides the data signal including an updated position information during a frame period in which no new input image data is received, and the image corresponding to the partial area is updated in the display area based on the updated position information during the frame period.
Luo et al. US 20210181923 A1 teaches an always on display method and an electronic device relate to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes obtaining, by an electronic device having a touchscreen, first device status information, where the first device status information is first information related to a first current running state of the electronic device, determining a first always on display interface based on the first device status information, displaying the first always on display interface on the touchscreen, obtaining second device status information, where the second device status information is second information related to a second current running state of the electronic device, determining a second always on display interface based on the second device status information, and displaying the second always on display interface on the touchscreen.
Yu et al. US 20210105356 A1 teaches a display to display a preview image of each of a plurality of screens including a first screen, receive a first user input for modifying a background image of the first screen in an area in which the preview image corresponding to the first screen is displayed, modify a background image of each of the plurality of screens by synchronizing a modification corresponding to the first user input among background images of the plurality of screens, and control the first display to display the preview image of each of the plurality of screens including the modified background image. The user input may be user input for changing the area to be displayed by performing drag input to the area to be displayed. According to various embodiments, the user input may be user input of performing zooming in or zooming out in order to enlarge or reduce the area to be displayed.
Tang et al. US 20180246632 A1 teaches a method and device for generating a mobile terminal theme. The method includes: determining a target wallpaper picture, and determining a target icon style; displaying an icon conforming to the target icon style in a preset preview area of the target wallpaper picture; receiving a theme completing instruction sent by a user; and generating and storing a target theme composed of the target wallpaper picture and the target icon style. The present disclosure further provides an electronic device.
Xu et al. US 20150113475 A1 teaches a method and device for providing an image preview to improve the effect and efficiency of previewing images. The method includes: receiving a sliding gesture from a user through an interface of displaying an image; providing an image preview within a first boundary of the image if the sliding gesture is received through a first region of the interface; and providing the image preview within a second boundary of the image if the sliding gesture is received through a second region of the interface.
Kim US 20130305189 A1 teaches a mobile terminal and a control method thereof capable of configuring a background image of a background screen. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display a background screen containing at least one object; a selector configured to select at least one image to be set to a background image of the background screen; and a controller configured to display a preview screen for the background screen and the selected image together on the display unit, and set at least a partial region of the selected image to the background image of the background screen when the at least a partial region of the selected image is overlapped with the preview screen. Here, the preview screen may include an outline of the object contained in the background screen.
Mujkic et al. US 20130038627 A1 teaches an electronic device and a method of operation thereof for facilitating the provision of an image as a background wallpaper of a user interface for display on a display of an electronic device, the device being configured to display the user interface and wallpaper in first and second different orientations during use, comprising: generating, based on the image, a first thumbnail representation of the appearance of the display having the image as the background wallpaper in a first orientation; generating, based on the image, a second thumbnail representation of the appearance of the display having the image as the background wallpaper in a second orientation; and simultaneously displaying on the display the first and second thumbnails.
Conclusion
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/MAHELET SHIBEROU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2171