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Double Patenting
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Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent No. 12,499,162 in view of Malkireddy. (US Patent Application Publication No. 2025/0110992). The claims of the instant application and the claims of the reference patent are compared in the table below.
Instant Application No. 18/622,683.
Claim 1. A method comprising, in a content collaboration platform managing a plurality of
electronic documents: causing a client computer to display a graphical user interface including:
a content panel operating a content editor configured to receive user-generated
content and store the user-generated content as an electronic document in the content
collaboration platform; and a navigational panel including a hierarchical element tree, the hierarchical element tree comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged selectable elements, each respective selectable element being selectable to cause display of respective document content of a respective electronic document;
in response to receiving a command to create a video object for embedding in the content panel, invoking a video-creation service hosted by an external platform and causing display of a video-creation window overlaying the graphical user interface of the content collaboration platform, the video-creation window comprising:
a content region comprising at least a portion of the content panel; a user video region showing a video preview of a user of the client computer, the user video region overlayed with the content region; and a first selectable option configured to initiate a recording session for the video
object; in response to a command indicating an end of the recording, causing display of the video object in an editing interface, the editing interface comprising a second selectable option to edit the video object and a third selectable option to embed the video object in a content page of the content collaboration platform; and
in response to a user selection of the third selectable option, causing the video object to be embedded in the user-generated content of the electronic document displayed in the content panel.
US Patent No. 12,499,162.
Claim 1. A method comprising, in a content collaboration system comprising a plurality of user-generated documents: causing a client computer to display a graphical user interface including:
a content panel configured to display content of a selected content item; and a navigational panel including a hierarchical element tree, the hierarchical element tree comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged selectable elements, each respective selectable element being selectable to cause display of respective content associated with the respective selectable element in the content panel; in response to a selection of a selectable element in the hierarchical element tree and in accordance with the selected selectable element being associated with a document that is managed by the content collaboration system: obtaining document content of the document from the content collaboration system, the document content formatted in accordance with a platform-specific structured data format; and causing display of the document content in the content panel; and
in response to the selection of the selectable element in the hierarchical element tree and in accordance with the selected selectable element being associated with a remote content item that is managed by an external platform separate from the content collaboration system: selecting a content processing engine from a set of candidate content processing engines accessible to the content collaboration system, the content processing engine configured to process content from remote content items associated with the external platform; retrieving content from the remote content item at the external platform and using an address associated with the remote content item; processing the content from the remote content item using the selected content processing engine to produce renderable content, the renderable content formatted in accordance with the platform-specific structured data format; and causing display of the renderable content in the content panel.
Claim 1 of the reference patent recites all of the limitations of claim 1 of the instant application except “in response to receiving a command to create a video object for embedding in the content panel, invoking a video-creation service hosted by an external platform and causing display of a video-creation window overlaying the graphical user interface of the content collaboration platform, the video-creation window comprising: a content region comprising at least a portion of the content panel; a user video region showing a video preview of a user of the client computer, the user video region overlayed with the content region; and a first selectable option configured to initiate a recording session for the video object; in response to a command indicating an end of the recording, causing display of the video object in an editing interface, the editing interface comprising a second selectable option to edit the video object and a third selectable option to embed the video object in a content page of the content collaboration platform..” However, Malkireddy teaches the processing engines may map certain types of content or content elements to particular positions or fields of a locally managed document. For example, if a page generation request includes an address of a website that includes video content, the processing engine may identify a title of the video and the video itself, and may generate renderable content (in the platform-specific structured data format) that results in the video being displayed in the center of the document, with the title centered over the video. The particular manner in which remote content is ultimately formatted and presented in the local document may be fixed by the processing engines (e.g., such that all content items of a certain type from a certain external platform are presented uniformly). As another example, the processing engines may be configured to determine a manner in which the content appears on the external platform, and format the renderable content to reflect the source appearance (e.g., fonts, content alignment, content size, position on a document or page, etc., may be partially or fully retained); [Malkireddy; para. 0048, 0049].
It would have been obvious to person of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to in response to the selection of the selectable element in the hierarchical element tree and in accordance with the selected selectable element being associated with a remote content item that is managed by an external platform separate from the content collaboration system: selecting a content processing engine from a set of candidate content processing engines accessible to the content collaboration system, the content processing engine configured to process content from remote content items associated with the external platform; as disclosed in Malkireddy, within the method of claim 1 of the reference patent, in response to receiving a command to create a video object for embedding in the content panel, invoking a video-creation service hosted by an external platform and causing display of a video-creation window overlaying the graphical user interface of the content collaboration platform, the video-creation window comprising: a content region comprising at least a portion of the content panel; a user video region showing a video preview of a user of the client computer, the user video region overlayed with the content region; and a first selectable option configured to initiate a recording session for the video object; in response to a command indicating an end of the recording, causing display of the video object in an editing interface, the editing interface comprising a second selectable option to edit the video object and a third selectable option to embed the video object in a content page of the content collaboration platform.
Allowable Subject Matter
After a thorough search, and in light of the prior art of record, claims 1, 9 and 16 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
The best prior arts, Dasdan et al. (US Patent No. 2023/0101588); and Gui et al. (US Patent No. 11,734,501) combination fail to disclose or suggest one or more of the features of the independent claims 1, 9 and 16.
In summary, Dasdan discloses generating automations can include displaying graphical objects corresponding to documents hosted by the content collaboration system at a navigation pane of the content collaboration system and determining a deviation metric using a hierarchical structure of the graphical objects and a reference structure. In response to the deviation metric satisfying a criteria, an automation rule for the change to the hierarchical structure of the displayed graphical objects can be displayed.
GUI teaches the electronic content may be managed by a content collaboration system that manages and stores user-generated content in a series of related pages or documents. Content status may be designated using controls provided via a web-browser user interface and used for tracking and management of electronic content by individual users, which may allow for improved data preservation and more uniform content management.
None of the prior arts of record alone or in any reasonable combination, disclose the claimed invention as recites in the independent claim 1 and similarly recited in independent claims 9 and 16.
Specifically, the prior arts fail to teach a method comprising, in a content collaboration platform managing a plurality of electronic documents: causing a client computer to display a graphical user interface including: a content panel operating a content editor configured to receive user-generated content and store the user-generated content as an electronic document in the content collaboration platform; and a navigational panel including a hierarchical element tree, the hierarchical element tree comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged selectable elements, each respective selectable element being selectable to cause display of respective document content of a respective electronic document; in response to receiving a command to create a video object for embedding in the content panel, invoking a video-creation service hosted by an external platform and causing display of a video-creation window overlaying the graphical user interface of the content collaboration platform, the video-creation window comprising: a content region comprising at least a portion of the content panel; a user video region showing a video preview of a user of the client computer, the user video region overlayed with the content region; and a first selectable option configured to initiate a recording session for the video object; in response to a command indicating an end of the recording, causing display of the video object in an editing interface, the editing interface comprising a second selectable option to edit the video object and a third selectable option to embed the video object in a content page of the content collaboration platform; and in response to a user selection of the third selectable option, causing the video object to be embedded in the user-generated content of the electronic document displayed in the content panel.
The recited limitations, in conjunction with all the features of the independent and dependent claims are not taught nor suggested by the prior arts of record.
Claims 2-8, 10-15 and 17-20 are also allowed as being directly or indirectly dependent of the allowed independent claims.
Accordingly, the scope of the invention has been sufficiently narrowed to bring the claims into compliance with novelty and non-obviousness requirement of the Patent Act.
Conclusion
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/CAO H NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2171