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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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, 4, and 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ku US 20090074156 in view of Chatfield US 20030227478.
Regarding claims 1, 4, 5, Ku teaches acquiring network information indicating a delay time of data transmission in a network including a data measurement device and a plurality of server devices (After receiving the overall path delays from the ECs 280, the ES 275 selects an appropriate media server 235 for monitoring the call between the target user device 205 and the far-end user device 210, [0033]);
calculating a deployment configuration of functions of an application of an application (For example, the ES 275 may be configured to select the media server 235 having the lowest overall path delay, or having the first reported overall path delay which is acceptable according to some specified criteria, such as a predetermined threshold, parameter, etc, [0033]) for processing data transmitted from the data measurement device to each of the plurality of server devices based on the network information (For example, the LIF 250 of the illustrated example will establish a SIP dialog with the media server 235 (or MRF
235) to insert the media server 235 in the media streams associated with the target user device 205 undergoing surveillance ([0027]).
Although Ku teaches a media server (fig. 2 box 235), the reference is silent on the media server comprising a database.
Chatfield teaches a media server comprising a database ([0019]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of Ku by the media server comprising a database, as shown by Chatfield. This modification would benefit the system by enabling the media server to store information relevant to the network.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 3, and 6-12 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.
Conclusion
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/RONALD B ABELSON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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