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
The present invention application contains 20 claims. Claims 1, 11 and 16 are independent. Claims 1-20 are examined and rejected by the following detail action.
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 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (i.e., a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea) without significantly more.
Independent claims 1, 11, and 16 are directed to a device, method and storage medium that acquires first data and second data from external electronic devices associated with the same account, selects at least one piece of data based on configuration reference information, and generates a user interface based on selected data. Such limitations describe the mental processes and information processing concepts of collecting information (i.e., acquires first data and second data from external electronic devices associated with the same account), analyzing or evaluating information using criteria (mental process) (i.e., selects at least one piece of data based on configuration reference information), and displaying or presenting information (i.e., generates a user interface based on selected data). Therefore, the claims are directed to an abstract idea.
The claim does not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception because the additional elements when considered both individually and as a combination do not amount to significantly more than the abstract idea. In particular, the claims recite the additional elements of the generic communication circuit, memory, processor(s) and external electronic devices that merely perform well-understood, routine, and conventional computer functions and do not describes a specific technical solution to a technological problem or any machine implementation to improve the computer functionalities. Therefore, the claims do not integrate the judicial exception into a practical application and do not amount to significant more than the abstract idea.
Dependent claims 2-10, 12-15 and 17-20 depend on the rejected independent claims 1, 11 and 16, respectively and are similarly rejected.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(B) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 11, and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Claims 1, 11, and 16 recite the limitations “….select, based on the configuration reference information…” in which the term “configuration reference information” is broad and unclear of what constitutes configuration reference information and that renders no objective boundaries as metadata, rules, policies, account settings, etc. Thus, the limitation fails to point out and distinctly claim the function of the mentioned undefined term. Therefore, the limitation is rejected as indefinite.
Conclusion
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/TUAN S NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2179
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