DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to application 18/5933343 filed on March 01, 2024.
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 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.
Claims 1-8 are pending and herein considered.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed in parent Application No JP2023-119424, filed on 07/21/23].
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 .
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 1-12 are rejected under 35 USC § 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter.
Regarding claim 1; claim 1 calls for asystem; however, the body of the claim does not positively recite any hardware element. As recited in the body of the claim, the claimed device contains “a interface” and “a processor”. The interface can be construed by a software component. Regarding the claim a processor, one of ordinary skill in the art would understand that a “processor” could be a software processor (See “The Authoritative Dictionary of IEEE Standards Terms,” Seventh Edition, published in 2000). Because the elements of claim 1 are interpreted as merely software and the claim lacks any physical device or machine, the claim is directed to non-statutory subject matter. It is suggested that the claim be further amended to positively recite at least one hardware element within the body of the claim to make the claim statutory under 35 U.S.C. 101.
Regarding claims 2-12; claims 2-12 do not recite any hardware element to resolve the issue in the independent claim 1. Therefore, claims 2-12 are also non-statutory under 35 U.S.C. 101.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1)/(a)(2)as being anticipated by Amaizumi et, al.
Regarding claim 1, Amaizumi discloses an information processing system comprising: a processor configured to:
recognize a new device administrator as a device administrator in a case where first authentication information and second authentication information for the device administrator are received par. [0020] following validation, a first device token is created on the server and transmitted to the device. such tokens may be visible to both the server and the device. the device may receive the first device token and prompt the user to enter a secondary credential on the device.
reset or overwrite the second authentication information in a case where an instruction to reset or overwrite the second authentication information is given by a user belonging to a predetermined authority group permitted to reset or overwrite the second authentication information for the device administrator [0042] the MFP 10 comprises: a manual control part 11 including a plurality of keys 11a, and accepting various instructions given by a user manipulating the keys 11a and the input of data including characters, numerals and the like; a display 12 for displaying an instruction menu for the user, information about acquired images, and the like; a scanner part 13 for photoelectrically reading an original to provide image data; and a printer part 14 for printing an image on a recording sheet based on the image data.; and
perform processing of initializing the first authentication information for the device administrator in a case where the second authentication information is reset or overwritten par. [0024] added to a configuration according to another example embodiment. In addition, addition, deletion, or replacement is possible between part of a configuration according to one example embodiment and another configuration.
Regarding claim 8 A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing, the process comprising:
recognizing a new device administrator as a device administrator, in a case where first authentication information and second authentication information for the device administrator are received [0020] following validation, a first device token is created on the server and transmitted to the device. such tokens may be visible to both the server and the device. the device may receive the first device token and prompt the user to enter a secondary credential on the device.
resetting or overwriting the second authentication information in a case where an instruction to reset or overwrite the second authentication information is given by a user belonging to a predetermined authority group permitted to reset or overwrite the second authentication information for the device administrator; and
performing processing of initializing the first authentication information for the device administrator in a case where the second authentication information is reset or overwritten [0024] added to a configuration according to another example embodiment. In addition, addition, deletion, or replacement is possible between part of a configuration according to one example embodiment and another configuration..
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7are 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.
Claims 2-7would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 101, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/VU V TRAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2491
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