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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This communication is a Final Office Action in response to communications received on 10/11/25.
Claims 1-19 have been cancelled and replaced with new claims 1-19.
Therefore, Claims 1-19 are now pending and have been addressed below.
Examiner Note:
Applicant is advised to refer to section MPEP 714 (c) Amendments to the Claims for proper formatting of amendment. Amendments filed on 10/10/25 is considered non-compliant because it fails to meet the requirements of 37 CFR 1.21 or 1.4. In order for the amendment to be compliant, correction of the following items is required: Claims 1-19 all limitations have been cancelled; claims 1-19 indicated as currently amended and new limitations added to claims. Claims 1-19 should be cancelled and new claims 20-39 should be added with new limitations. In order to advance prosecution, examiner has considered new claim amendment below, however correction per MPEP 714 (C) is required.
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.
Claims 1-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (an abstract idea) without significantly more.
Step 1: Identifying Statutory Categories
In the instant case, claims 1-10, 11-12, 13-19 are directed to a system. Thus, the claims fall within one of the four statutory categories. Nevertheless, the claims fall within the judicial exception of an abstract idea.
Step 2A: Prong 1 Identifying a Judicial Exception
Under Step 2A, prong 1, Claims 1-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention recites an abstract idea without significantly more.
Independent claim 1 recites system to ensure safety of workers by using worksite data including wireless communication signals and GPS signals information, the system landscape comprising: at least one mobile worker safety base station present at a worksite with at least one worker, the at least one mobile worker safety base station at least comprising: at least one processor coupled with at least one memory storing instructions, at least one network interface which is not an interface for wireless mesh network, at least one computer-readable data store, at least one GPS arrangement, the at least one computer-readable data store at least comprising: at least one first map of the worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, at least one second map of the worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated GPS signals intensity data, associated GPS signals reliability data and at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, data related to at least one robot control and related at least one configuration, data related to at least one monitoring schedule for the worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker, wherein the at least one mobile worker safety base station is portable, wherein the at least one first map and the at least one second map are optionally three-dimensional; at least one robot comprising: at least one processor coupled with at least one memory storing instructions, at least one network interface which is not an interface for wireless mesh network used to couple with the at least one mobile worker safety station, at least one network interface used to communicate with at least one emergency service, at least one computer-readable data store, at least one sensor capable of sensing environment around the at least one robot, at least one GPS arrangement, at least one arrangement capable of changing at least one physical position of the at least one robot based on one or more of: at least one data from the associated at least one sensor, GPS signals intensity data and GPS signals reliability data from the associated at least one GPS arrangement, at least one movement generated by the associated at least one arrangement capable of changing at least one physical position, wherein the at least one robot is portable and is present at the worksite with the at least one worker facing the at least one safety issue; the at least one processor of the at least one mobile worker safety base station configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: analyzing data in the associated at least one memory for detecting at least one safety issue associated with the at least one worksite; determining occurrence of at least one safety issue from the analyzed data; generating data related to current physical position of the at least one mobile worker safety base station based on data from the associated at least one GPS arrangement; determining availability of at least one wireless communication link to at least one emergency service which exists outside the worksite; in case at least one wireless communication link to the at least one emergency service is available: (a) generating at least one signal and/or data related to the determined occurrence of the at least one safety issue, (b) transmitting the generated data to the at least one emergency service, (c) receiving at least one response related to the transmitted generated data from the at least one emergency service; in case, at least one wireless communication link to the at least one emergency service is not available: (a) determining relevant maps and associated data which can enable at least one wireless communication link by the at least one robot, wherein the relevant maps include:(i) the at least one first map,(ii) the at least one second map, (b) determining need to update the determined relevant at least one map stored by the at least one robot, (c) transferring the determined needed at least one map to the at least one robot through the associated at least one network interface, (d) generating data required to initiate movement from the current location of the at least one robot including data related to the determined at least one safety issue, (e) transferring the generated data required to initiate movement of the at least one robot to the at least one robot through the associated at least one network interface to enable the at least one robot to establish network communication link to the at least one emergency service to transmit, (f) receiving at least one response from the at least one robot related to communication with the at least one emergency service; the at least one processor of the at least one robot configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: (a) optionally receiving the determined needed at least one map from the at least one mobile worker safety station through the associated at least one network interface and updating stored at least one map stored in the associated data store, (b) receiving data related to the determined at least one safety issue and other data required to initiate movement from the current location from the at least one mobile worker safety station, (c) based on the received data moving from the current location to a location outside the worksite where at least one wireless communication link is established to the at least one emergency service by using the stored maps and the associated data, (d) exchanging data related to the at least one safety issue with the at least one emergency service, (e) receiving at least one response from the at least one emergency service, (f) changing the at least one robot physical location to a location which is within wireless communication range of the at least one worker safety base station worksite, (g) generating data based on the received at least one response and transmitting the generated data.
Claim 11 is directed to ensuring safety of workers by using mobile worker safety base station and wearable devices, the system landscape comprising: at least one portable mobile worker safety base station present at a worksite with at least one worker, the at least one mobile worker safety base station at least comprising: at least one processor coupled with at least one memory storing instructions, at least one wireless network interface which is not an interface for wireless mesh network, at least one computer-readable data store, at least one sensor; at least one wearable device directly or indirectly attached to the at least one worker present at the worksite, the at least one wearable device comprising: at least one processor coupled with at least one memory storing instructions, at least one wireless network interface which is not an interface for wireless mesh network, at least one computer-readable data store, at least one sensor; the at least one processor associated with mobile worker safety base station, configured to execute the instructions to perform operations to ensure safety of the worker, the operations comprising: generating coupling with the at least one wearable device through the associated at least one network interface ;determining that the at least one wearable device does not provide at least one required safety monitoring data based on data related to the at least one wearable device and at least one safety monitoring requirement; receiving at least one fault related data from the at least one wearable device; receiving at least one power status of the at least one wearable device; generating safety monitoring data related to the worksite instead of the at least one wearable device by using the associated at least one sensor, in one or more of the following cases: the at least one wearable device does not provide at least one required safety monitoring data; the at least one wearable device attached to the at least one worker to generate the safety monitoring data has developed at least one fault; the at least one wearable device generating the safety monitoring data has run out of at least one battery charge; analyzing the generated safety monitoring data and based on the analyzed data generating at least one safety issue related information when the at least one wearable device does not provide the at least one required safety monitoring data.
Claim 13 is directed to a worker safety management system to ensure safety of one or more workers; the worker safety management system comprising: at least one processor coupled with at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute operations; computer-readable stored at least one first map of at least one worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the at least worksite and the at least one other worksite, computer-readable stored at least one second map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated GPS signals intensity data, associated GPS signals reliability data and at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, computer-readable stored at least one third map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated functional power socket information, computer-readable stored data related to at least one monitoring requirement based on at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker; computer-readable stored data related to at least one mobile worker safety base station; computer-readable stored data related to at least one assignment of the at least one mobile worker safety base station to the at least one worksite according to at least one predetermined work schedule for at least one planned activity; computer-readable stored data related to the at least one worker’s at least one planned activity and associated the at least one potential safety issue at the at least one worksite; computer-readable stored data related to at least one wearable device that monitors safety of the at least one worker at least one worksite based on the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one planned activity and, generate and send at least one notification when the safety of the at least one worker is endangered or expected to be endangered; computer-readable stored data related to at least one network interface the at least one worker safety management system uses with at least one external network interface and/or at least one internal network interface; the at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: determining and generating information related to planned at least one activity at least one worksite for the at least one worker based on the computer-readable stored data; based on the computer-readable stored data, determining that the at least one worksite associated with the determined planned at least one activity is without at least one of:(a) GPS signals, (b) reliable GPS signals, (c) wireless communication signals, (d) reliable wireless communication signals; when the at least one worksite is without any of (a) to (d), transmitting to the at least one worker safety base station at least one of: at least one first map of at least one worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the at least worksite and the at least one other worksite, at least one second map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated GPS signals intensity data, associated GPS signals reliability data and at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, at least one third map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated functional power socket information, at least one monitoring requirement based on the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker.
These limitations in claims 1, 11 and 13, as drafted, are a process that, under its broadest reasonable interpretation, covers methods of organizing human activity (including commercial interactions such as business relations, managing personal behavior or relationships or interactions between people (including social activities, teaching, and following rules or instructions) including interaction between person and computer), but for the recitation of generic computer components. That is, other than reciting the structural elements (such as underlined structure are additional elements in Claim 1: mobile worker safety base stations comprising one or more processors, network interface, robots, wireless communication link, sensor; Claim 11: one or more mobile worker safety base stations comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories and one or more sensors; one or more wearable devices comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories and one or more sensors; Claim 13 one or more processors coupled with one or more memories, one or more mobile worker safety base stations; wearable devices; one or more external interfaces and/or one or more internal interfaces, worker safety management system, one or more computer, one or more robot), the claims are directed to ensuring safety or one or more workers. If a claim limitation, under its broadest reasonable interpretation, covers performance of the limitation of organizing human activity but for the recitation of generic computer components, the claim recites an abstract idea.
Step 2A Prong 2 - This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because the claim merely describes how to generally “apply” the concept of receiving data, analyzing it, and providing instructions for worker safety. In particular, the claims only recites the additional element – Claim 1: one or more mobile worker safety base stations each of which comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories; network interface, computer readable data store, one or more robots each of which comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories; sensor, GPS signals, one or more computer; Claim 11: one or more mobile worker safety base stations comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories and one or more sensors; one or more wearable devices comprising one or more processors coupled with one or more memories and one or more sensors; Claim 13 one or more processors coupled with one or more memories, one or more mobile worker safety base stations; wearable devices; one or more external interfaces and/or one or more internal interfaces, worker safety management system, one or more computer, one or more robot. The additional elements are recited at a high-level of generality such that it amounts to no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using a generic computer component or merely uses a computer as a tool to perform an abstract idea, as discussed in MPEP 2106.05(f). Simply implementing the abstract idea on generic components is not a practical application of the abstract idea. Accordingly, these additional element does not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application because it does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea.
The claims are directed to an abstract idea. When considered in combination, the claims do not amount to improvements to the functioning of a computer, or to any other technology or technical field, as discussed in MPEP 2106.05(a), applying the judicial exception with, or by use of, a particular machine, as discussed in MPEP 2106.05(b), effecting a transformation or reduction of a particular article to a different state or thing, as discussed in MPEP 2106.05(c), or applying or using the judicial exception in some other meaningful way beyond generally linking the use of the judicial exception to a particular technological environment, such that the claim as a whole is more than a drafting effort designed to monopolize the exception, as discussed in MPEP 2106.05(e). Accordingly, the additional elements do not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application because they does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea. Therefore, the claims are directed to an abstract idea.
Step 2B: Considering Additional Elements
The claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea without significantly more. The claim does not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration of the abstract idea into a practical application, the claims describe how to generally “apply” to; provide instructions for worker safety. The claim(s) do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because mere instructions to apply an exception using a generic computer component cannot provide an inventive concept. The independent claims do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. Even when viewed as a whole, nothing in the claim adds significantly more (i.e., an inventive concept) to the abstract idea. The claims are not patent eligible. The dependent claim(s) when analyzed as a whole are held to be patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the additional recited limitation(s) fail to establish that the claim(s) is/are not directed to an abstract idea. The dependent claims are not significantly more because they are part of the identified judicial exception. See MPEP 2106.05(g). The claims are not patent eligible. With respect to the additional elements in claims 1, 11, 13, these limitations are described in Applicant’s own specification as generic and conventional elements. See Applicants specification, Paragraph [0014] details “ Computing devices such as laptop, workstation, laptops, distributed computing systems, desktop, server, cluster, virtual machine, mainframe, smart phone, wireless data port, a personal digital assistance, tablet computing devices are examples of such computer 101. The computer 101 includes a Processor 102 (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), a conventional processor. Memory 103 can be any kind of memory device such as read only memory (ROM), [0038]robot.” These are basic computer elements applied merely to carry out data processing such as, discussed above, receiving, analyzing, transmitting and displaying data, which fall under well-understood, routine and conventional functions of generic computers. Furthermore, the use of such generic computers to receive or transmit data over a network has been identified as a well understood, routine and conventional activity by the courts. See Symantec, 838 F.3d at 1321, 120 USPQ2d at 1362 (utilizing an intermediary computer to forward information); TLI Communications LLC v. AVAuto. LLC, 823 F.3d 607, 610, 118 USPQ2d 1744, 1745 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (using a telephone for image transmission); Presenting offers and gathering statistics, OIP Techs., 788 F.3d at 1362-63, 115 USPQ2d at 1092-93, OIP Techs., Inc., v. Amazon.com, Inc., 788 F.3d 1359, 1363, 115 USPQ2d 1090, 1093 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (sending messages over a network); storing and retrieving information in memory, Versata Dev. Group, Inc. v. SAP Am., Inc., 793 F.3d 1306, 1334, 115 USPQ2d 1681, 1701 (Fed. Cir. 2015); OIP Techs., 788 F.3d at 1363, 115 USPQ2d at 1092-93;buySAFE, Inc. v. Google, Inc., 765 F.3d 1350, 1355, 112 USPQ2d 1093, 1096 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (computer receives and sends information over a network); but see DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P., 773 F.3d 1245, 1258, 113 USPQ2d 1097, 1106 (Fed. Cir. 2014) ("Unlike the claims in Ultramercial, the claims at issue here specify how interactions with the Internet are manipulated to yield a desired result-a result that overrides the routine and conventional sequence of events ordinarily triggered by the click of a hyperlink." (emphasis added)); Also see MPEP 2106.05(d) discussing elements that the courts have recognized as well-understood, routine and conventional activities in particular fields. Lastly, the additional elements provides only a result-oriented solution which lacks details as to how the computer performs the claimed abstract idea. Therefore, the additional elements amount to mere instructions to apply the exception. See MPEP 2106.05(f).
Furthermore, these steps/components are not explicitly recited and therefore must be construed at the highest level of generality and amount to mere instructions to implement the abstract idea on a computer. Therefore, the claimed invention does not demonstrate a technologically rooted solution to a computer-centric problem or recite an improvement to another technology or technical field, an improvement to the function of any computer itself, applying the exception with, or by use of, a particular machine, effect a transformation or reduction of a particular article to a different state or thing, add a specific limitation other than what is well-understood, routine and conventional in the field, add unconventional steps that confine the claim to a particular useful application, or provide meaningful limitations beyond generally linking an abstract idea to a particular technological environment such as computing. Viewing the limitations as an ordered combination does not add anything further than looking at the limitations individually. Taking the additional claimed elements individually and in combination, the computer components at each step of the process perform purely generic computer functions. Viewed as a whole, the claims do not purport to improve the functioning of the computer itself, or to improve any other technology or technical field. Use of an unspecified, generic computer does not transform an abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention. Thus, the claims do not amount to significantly more than the abstract idea itself.
Dependent claims 2-10, 12, and 14-19 add additional limitations, but these only serve to further limit the abstract idea, and hence are nonetheless directed towards fundamentally the same abstract idea as Independent claims.
Claim 2 recites limitations that further limit the abstract idea of independent claim by receiving data generated by at least one wearable device associated with the at least one worker present at the worksite through the associated at least one network interface which is not an interface for wireless network mesh, wherein the received data indicates at least one safety issue being faced by the at least one worker and the received generated data is based on at least one analysis performed by the at least one wearable device, wherein the received data generated by at least one wearable device is received during the at least one monitoring schedule stored in the at least one data store associated with the at least one mobile worker safety base station, wherein the received data generated by at least one wearable device does not indicate noise above a certain decibel range, wherein the received data generated by at least one wearable device is not interpreted based on another received data generated by another wearable device; The underlined additional elements are recited at high level of generality. These steps recite data gathering and analysis steps which are abstract idea of organizing of human activity.
Claims 3-4 recites limitations that further limit the abstract idea of independent claim by notifying the at least one worker associated with at least one wearable device and facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by generating at least one voice based on the received at least one response; notifying the at least one worker associated with at least one wearable device and facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by displaying information based on the received at least one response; notifying the at least one worker associated with at least one wearable device and facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by generating at least one light; generate at least one sound to draw attention, (b) at least one arrangement to generate at least one light to draw attention, (c) at least one arrangement to communicate with at least one worker, and the at least one processor of the at least one robot configured to execute the instructions to perform further operations comprising: notifying the at least one worker facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by generating at least one sound based on the received at least one response by using the at least one arrangement to generate at least one sound ;notifying the at least one worker facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by displaying information based on the received at least one response on an associated at least one display; notifying the at least one worker facing the at least one safety issue at the worksite, by generating at least one light by using the at least one arrangement to generate at least one light and based on the at least one response.
Claims 5-8 recite limitations that further narrow the abstract idea by generating at least one effect to draw attention of at least one monitoring device and/or at least one human being in one or more surrounding environments when the at least one robot fail to establish at least one wireless communication link after moving away from the at least one mobile worker safety base station to communicate with the at least one emergency service wherein the at one robot is physically attached to the at least one worker safety base station through at least one releasable arrangement. wherein the at least one emergency service is at least one of: at least one emergency service not associated with the worksite, at least one emergency service associated with the worksite, at least one help dispatch unit service which is not part of the at least one emergency service. the at least one robot further comprising:(a) at least one arrangement to detect and operate at least one emergency button, (b) at least one arrangement to detect and operate at least one hazard button, (c) at least one arrangement to detect and operate at least one help button and the at least one processor of the at least one robot configured to execute the instructions to perform further operations comprising: physically and/or through remote control activating the at least one button attached to at least one physical structure to draw attention of at least one monitoring device and/or at least one human being in at least one surrounding environment when the at least one robot fails to establish at least one wireless communication link after moving away from the at least one mobile worker safety base station to establish at least one communication link with the at least one emergency service. The claims do not recite new additional elements.
Claims 9-10 recite updating the at least one first map based on stored at least one rule and/or at least one stored predefined event, updating the at least one second map based on stored at least one rule and/or at least one stored predefined event, updating stored at least one monitoring schedule for the worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker based on stored at least one rule and/or at least one stored predefined event, updating stored data related to communication with the at least one robot to ensure safety of at least one worker based on stored at least one rule and/or at least one stored predefined event, updating stored at least one monitoring for the worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker based on stored at least one rule and/or at least one stored predefined event.; generating and storing data related to at least one insight and at least one analysis result for the data related to monitoring for the purpose of ensuring safety of the at least one worker at the at least one worksite; managing at least one life cycle of the stored at least one insight and at least one analysis result.
Claim 12 recites determining at least one concentration of at least one gas in at least one range, in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; detecting at least one light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; determining at least one intensity of sound in at least one specific range and over at least one specific time length in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; detecting at least one vibration in at least one specific intensity range in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; determining at least one concentration of at least one solid particle in at least one surrounding environment in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable devices and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; determining at least one strength of magnetic field in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; determining at least one fall by determining the at least one wearable device tilt angle within specific range for at least one time period within at least one specific range and generating related information; determining at least one heat intensity in at least one surrounding environment of the at least one wearable device and/or the at least one mobile worker safety base station and generating related information; determining at least one unconscious state associated with at least one worker who is a human being and/or at least one worker who is animal by determining the wearable device not changing tilt angle within at least one specific range for at least one time period within at least one specific range and generating related information; analyzing at least one voice associated at least one worker who is human being and/or at least one sound associated at least one worker who is animal based on predefined configuration to determine need for help and generating related information.
Claims 14-19 further limit the abstract idea of independent claim 13 by including updating the stored at least one first map of the worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite according to at least one predefined schedule and/or in response to at least one event by optionally using at least one computer-readable stored rule which is further optionally based on at least one self-learning algorithm; wherein the at least one worksite is optionally one or more of: at least one agriculture worksite, at least one manufacturing worksite, at least one mining worksite, wherein the at least one worker is one or more of: at least one human being, at least one animal; determining and generating information related to the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one planned activity at the at least one worksite; determining and generating information related to at least one monitoring requirement associated with the determined at least one potential safety issue; changing the at least one planned activity with or without going through at least one approval workflow in case, the at least one mobile worker safety base station with the at least one required specification is not available; assigning the at least one mobile worker safety base station based on power required to continue monitoring throughout the at least one required time length of safety monitoring; providing at least one of following stored data to the at least one mobile worker safety base station: computer-readable stored data related to at least one monitoring requirement based on the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker. These limitations are directed to abstract idea of organizing of human activity. The dependent claims do not recite new additional elements.
The dependent claims do not integrate into a practical application. As such, the additional elements individually or in combination do not integrate the exception into a practical application, but rather, the recitation of any additional element amounts to merely reciting the words “apply it” (or equivalent) with the judicial exception, or merely includes instructions to implement an abstract idea on a computer, or merely uses a computer as a tool to perform an abstract idea (See MPEP 2106.05(f)). The dependent claims also do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration of the abstract idea into a practical application, the additional elements are merely used to apply the abstract idea to a technological environment. These limitations do not include an improvement to another technology or technical field, an improvement to the functioning of the computer itself, or meaningful limitations beyond generally linking the use of the abstract idea to a particular technological environment. See MPEP 2106.05d. Thus, the claims do not add significantly more to an abstract idea. The claims are ineligible. Therefore, since there are no limitations in the claim that transform the exception into a patent eligible application such that the claim amounts to significantly more than the exception itself, the claims are rejected under 35 USC 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter. See (Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, et al.).
Subject Matter Free of Prior Art
Regarding Claim 1, Crouthamel et al. (US11,412,441 B2 ) discloses network devices including one or more worker monitoring devices and one or more area monitoring devices is provided. The plurality of network devices monitor at least one of a peer alarm, a worker biometric datum or an area environmental datum.
Kumar (US 10861294) discloses a worker monitoring system. The system comprises a processor, a display, a data store, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. The application stores definitions of associations of electronic monitors to workers in the data store, receives information from the electronic monitors via a wireless communication link, based on accessing the data store, analyzes information from a plurality of electronic monitors associated with one of the workers, corroborates information from a first electronic monitor associated with the one or the workers using information from a second electronic monitor associated with the one of the workers, and based on the corroboration of the information from the first electronic monitor, and presents an alarm indication on the display.
Kumar (US 11,694,553) discloses in Fig 7 generating dispatch command based on detection of emergency to autonomous vehicle.
Morgenthau (US 10878352) discloses sensor that can be attached to the monitored subject that is adapted to monitor certain parameters associated with the worker's environment. For instance, a sensor assigned to the monitored subject may be capable of determining the location of the subject, along with motion, impacts, altitude, and other environmental parameters that could affect the health or other condition of the worker.
KR10-2428896 discloses .a smart safety management system at a construction site. The first sensor device 110 is attached to protective equipment such as a safety helmet, seat belt, or safety vest worn by the worker in the construction site, and provides a first detection signal including location information, status information, and emergency notification information for the worker
KR10-2468597 discloses manager mode operation module incudes a work schedule information generation module 651, an access list display module 652, a work group display module 653, It consists of a worker location monitoring module 654, a work instruction information generation module 655, a first sudden situation alarm module 656, and an effective leaver confirmation module 657.
NPL, Yadav, “On-Body placement of wearable safety devices for construction workers”, 2022 discloses monitoring working condition at construction site.
However, prior art, taken alone or in combination, neither anticipates nor renders obvious at least following limitations of claim 1 “at least one wireless communication link to the at least one emergency service is not available: (a) determining relevant maps and associated data which can enable at least one wireless communication link by the at least one robot, wherein the relevant maps include:(i) the at least one first map,(ii) the at least one second map, (b) determining need to update the determined relevant at least one map stored by the at least one robot, (c) transferring the determined needed at least one map to the at least one robot through the associated at least one network interface, (d) generating data required to initiate movement from the current location of the at least one robot including data related to the determined at least one safety issue, (e) transferring the generated data required to initiate movement of the at least one robot to the at least one robot through the associated at least one network interface to enable the at least one robot to establish network communication link to the at least one emergency service to transmit, (f) receiving at least one response from the at least one robot related to communication with the at least one emergency service; the at least one processor of the at least one robot configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: (a) optionally receiving the determined needed at least one map from the at least one mobile worker safety station through the associated at least one network interface and updating stored at least one map stored in the associated data store (f) changing the at least one robot physical location to a location which is within wireless communication range of the at least one worker safety base station worksite”. Dependent claims 2-10 are not taught by prior art due to their dependence from claim 1.
Further, prior art, taken alone or in combination, neither anticipates nor renders obvious at least following limitations of claim 11 including “ generating coupling with the at least one wearable device through the associated at least one network interface ;determining that the at least one wearable device does not provide at least one required safety monitoring data based on data related to the at least one wearable device and at least one safety monitoring requirement; receiving at least one fault related data from the at least one wearable device; receiving at least one power status of the at least one wearable device; generating safety monitoring data related to the worksite instead of the at least one wearable device by using the associated at least one sensor, in one or more of the following cases: the at least one wearable device does not provide at least one required safety monitoring data; the at least one wearable device attached to the at least one worker to generate the safety monitoring data has developed at least one fault; the at least one wearable device generating the safety monitoring data has run out of at least one battery charge; analyzing the generated safety monitoring data and based on the analyzed data generating at least one safety issue related information when the at least one wearable device does not provide the at least one required safety monitoring data.” KR20160001365 discusses a device for detecting safety activity of a worker using a smartphone. The worker's mobile phone 20 includes a Bluetooth 21 for communication with the activity detection module 10, a message for transmitting a specific message to the manager's mobile phone. The activity detection module 10 has a display unit for displaying the capacity and the charged state of the battery, and transmits the contents to the cellular phone when the capacity of the battery is insufficient. Dependent claim 12 is not taught by prior art due to their dependence from claim 11.
Further, prior art, taken alone or in combination, neither anticipates nor renders obvious at least following limitations of claim 13 including “one first map of at least one worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the at least worksite and the at least one other worksite, computer-readable stored at least one second map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated GPS signals intensity data, associated GPS signals reliability data and at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, computer-readable stored at least one third map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated functional power socket information, computer-readable stored data related to at least one monitoring requirement based on at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker; computer-readable stored data related to at least one mobile worker safety base station; computer-readable stored data related to at least one assignment of the at least one mobile worker safety base station to the at least one worksite according to at least one predetermined work schedule for at least one planned activity; computer-readable stored data related to the at least one worker’s at least one planned activity and associated the at least one potential safety issue at the at least one worksite; computer-readable stored data related to at least one wearable device that monitors safety of the at least one worker at least one worksite based on the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one planned activity and, generate and send at least one notification when the safety of the at least one worker is endangered or expected to be endangered; computer-readable stored data related to at least one network interface the at least one worker safety management system uses with at least one external network interface and/or at least one internal network interface; the at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: determining and generating information related to planned at least one activity at at least one worksite for the at least one worker based on the computer-readable stored data; based on the computer-readable stored data, determining that the at least one worksite associated with the determined planned at least one activity is without at least one of:(a) GPS signals, (b) reliable GPS signals, (c) wireless communication signals, (d) reliable wireless communication signals; when the at least one worksite is without any of (a) to (d), transmitting to the at least one worker safety base station at least one of: at least one first map of at least one worksite and at least one other worksite with associated wireless communication signals intensity data, associated wireless communication signals reliability data and associated at least one route data among the at least worksite and the at least one other worksite, at least one second map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated GPS signals intensity data, associated GPS signals reliability data and at least one route data among the worksite and the at least one other worksite, at least one third map of the at least one worksite and the at least one other worksite with associated functional power socket information, at least one monitoring requirement based on the at least one potential safety issue associated with the at least one worksite to ensure safety of the at least one worker”. Kumar (US 11,694,553) discloses in Fig 7 generating dispatch command based on detection of emergency to autonomous vehicle. Kumar (US 10861294) discloses a worker monitoring system. The system comprises a processor, a display, a data store, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. The application stores definitions of associations of electronic monitors to workers in the data store, receives information from the electronic monitors via a wireless communication link, based on accessing the data store, analyzes information from a plurality of electronic monitors associated with one of the workers, corroborates information from a first electronic monitor associated with the one or the workers using information from a second electronic monitor associated with the one of the workers, and based on the corroboration of the information from the first electronic monitor, and presents an alarm indication on the display. Dependent claims 14-19 are not taught by prior art due to their dependence from claim 13.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 10/11/25 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
Applicant submitted argument under the heading “Remarks” pointing out disagreements with the prior art. Applicant also discussed the references applied against the claims, explaining how the claims avoid the references or distinguish from them. However, the claims were not rejected under 35U.S.C 103. Applicant did not provide any remarks regarding 35 U.S.C 101 rejection. The 101 rejection has been updated based on amendments.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US20230410526 discloses A video analytic worker safety monitoring system includes at least one video camera having a field of view including a defined safety zone in a workplace, the defined safety zone including or being proximate to a workplace hazard such as an electrical hazard, a machine hazard, or a medical procedure hazard
Xing (US 2023/0036118) discusses The safety management method for well site worker includes acquiring position information of the well site worker; acquiring layout information of a well site, the layout information including position information of a safe region, a dangerous region, and a buffer region between the safe region and the dangerous region in the well site
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