DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Applicant(s) Response to Official Action
The response filed on December 15, 2025 has been entered and made of record.
Response to Amendment
Claims 1, 7, 11, 13, and 18 have been amended. Claim 10 has been canceled. Claims 1-9 and 11-19 are pending in the application.
Applicant’s arguments and/or amendment(s) to the claim(s) have overcome each and every claim objection and claim rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112 previously set forth in the Office Action mailed October 1, 2025. Accordingly, those claim objections and claim rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112 is/are withdrawn.
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.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Suraparaju, Rahul, U.S. Pub. No. 2020/0213297 (hereinafter referred to as Suraparaju).
With regard to claim 13, Suraparaju discloses an authentication performing unit that receives a service request from a user terminal (Suraparaju, [0049]) and returns or issues an ID token and an authentication code to the user terminal in response to the service request (Suraparaju, [0051]); and a client that receives the ID token and the authentication code from the user terminal (Suraparaju, [0049]; Step 505), verifies validity of the ID token (Suraparaju, [0049]; Step 506), sets a session cookie for the service request when the validity is verified (Suraparaju, [0051]; Step 515), transmits an access token request including the authentication code to a token issuing unit (Suraparaju, [0051]), and receives an access token from the token issuing unit (Suraparaju, [0051]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9, 11, and 12 are allowed.
Claims 14-19 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: See PTO-892.
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/J. BRANT MURPHY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2435
February 7, 2026