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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 1/5/2026 has been entered.
Claim status in the amendment received on 1/5/2025:
Claims 1, 20 and 26 have been amended.
Claims 17-19 and 21-25 have been canceled.
Claims 1-16, 20 and 26 are pending.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments have been considered but are moot because the arguments do not apply to any of the references being used in the current rejection.
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-16, 20 and 26 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.
As to claim 1,
There is insufficient antecedent basis for “the first device” recited in line 4.
The claim further recites the limitation “the first device”, at least in line 9. There are multiple antecedent basis for the limitation in the claim. It is not clear which first device the limitation is referring to. Appropriate correction is required.
As to the claim(s) that are dependent on claim(s) 1, the dependent claim(s) are also rejected under 112(b) for the same reason of their base claim(s).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1-16, 20 and 26 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Degroat (Pub. No.: US 20170104829 A1) in view of Jenkins et al. (Patent No.: US 9298843 B1).
As to claim 1, Degroat teaches a method for use with a web server that stores a content identified by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the method comprising:
storing, by a first device, a group of profiles where each of the profiles in the group is associated with a distinct respective fingerprint data (fig. 5A, 310 and paragraph [0043], “a user-agent identifier 314 which specifies a particular user-agent type and configuration”);
identifying, by the first device, the content (paragraph [0027], “specific page”);
selecting, by the first device, a first profile from the group (paragraph [0027], select a first user agent 12);
forming, by the first device, a first request for the identified content, the first request includes the URL and uses, or is based on, the first profile (paragraph [0027], “retrieved and parsed”);
sending, by the first device to the web server over the Internet, the first request, so that the first profile is identifiable by the web server (paragraph [0027], “retrieved and parsed”);
receiving, by the first device from the web server over the internet, a first response, in response to the sending of the first request (paragraph [0027], retrieved data);
checking for determining whether the first response is a proper response that comprises the content (paragraph [0027], “If the crawl performed by the user agent 12 is insufficient to identify the desired information or define a document with sufficient particularity”); and
responsive to the determining that the first response is not a proper response (paragraph [0027], “If the crawl performed by the user agent 12 is insufficient to identify the desired information or define a document with sufficient particularity”) performing the steps of:
selecting, by the first device, a second profile from the group (paragraph [0027], select a different user agent);
forming, by the first device, a second request for the identified content, the second request includes the URL and uses, or is based on, the second profile (paragraph [0027], “selectively and iteratively retrieve and/or parse the document from the network resource with a different user agent”);
sending, by the first device to the web server over the Internet, the second request, so that the second profile is identifiable by the web server (paragraph [0027], “selectively and iteratively retrieve and/or parse the document from the network resource with a different user agent”);
receiving, by the first device from the web server over the internet, a second response, in response to the sending of the second request (paragraph [0027], “selectively and iteratively retrieve and/or parse the document from the network resource with a different user agent”); and
checking for determining whether the second response is a proper response that comprises the content (paragraph [0027], “Different user agents may be used until a document is parsed to sufficient particularity or all of the user agents have been used”), wherein the first and second profiles include different settings, different configurations, different user profiles, or different cookies or history, or any combination thereof (paragraph [0024], “…exploring and analyzing various network resources and their relationships through the use of multiple user-agents with varying capabilities and configurations…”).
Degroat does not explicitly teach executing a web browser associated with a group of profiles.
However, in the same field of endeavor (accessing online contents) Jenkins teaches executing, by a first device, a web browser (col. 3, lines 48-52, “For example, the network computing provider can instantiate, or cause to have instantiated, an instance of a virtual machine that includes a software browser application capable of requesting resources from a communication network”);
storing, by a first device, a group of profiles that are associated with the web browser, where each of the profiles in the group is associated with a distinct respective fingerprint data (col. 3, lines 38-42, “the client computing device (or network computing provider) can utilize processed user agent information to modify, update or verify the user agent information that will be specified for the requested content” and fig. 12).
Based on Degroat in view of Jenkins, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to incorporate executing a web browser associated with a group of profiles (taught by Jenkins) with fetching content using a group of profiles (taught by Degroat) in order to utilize the browser instance to facilitate the processing of content requests according to user agent information as motivated by Jenkins (col. 7, lines 9-17).
As to claim 2, Please see (paragraph [0039]).
As to claim 3, Please see (paragraph [0027]).
As to claim 4, Please see (paragraph [0027]).
As to claim 5, Please see (paragraph [0027]).
As to claim 6, Please see (paragraph [0039]).
As to claim 7, Please see (paragraph [0029]).
As to claim 8, Please see (paragraph [0039]).
As to claim 9, Please see (paragraph [0039]).
As to claim 10, Please see (paragraph [0039]).
As to claim 11, Please see (paragraph [0041]).
As to claim 12, Please see (paragraph [0041]).
As to claim 13, Please see (paragraph [0041]).
As to claim 14, Please see (paragraph [0041]).
As to claim 15, Please see (paragraph [0047]).
As to claim 16, Please see (paragraph [0047]).
As to claim 20, Please see (paragraph [0047]).
As to claim 26, Please see (paragraph [0026]).
Conclusion
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/Abdulkader M Alriyashi/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2447 1/6/2026