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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 § 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.
Claims 1, 3-6, 8-11, 13-16, 18-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Application Publication 2017/0288887 to Wang et al.
As concerns claims 1 (method), 6 (device) and 11 (CRM, (device (Fig. 7)), sending chat information, wherein the invention comprises:
receiving a first input (0013) by a user (0013-sender, participants, group) for a target session message (0012-chat message) in the chat information;
displaying M first identifiers (Fig. 2G; 0009; 0013-sender) and displaying P user identifiers (Fig. 2G; 0009-identifiers of participants; 0021; 0042-displayed) according to the first input, wherein M and P are both positive integers;
receiving a second input (Fig. 2A, 201) by the user, wherein the second input is used to associate a first target identifier in the M first identifiers with a second target identifier in the P user identifiers (Fig. 2A, 204; 0009; 0068); and
sending, in response to the second input, a session message (Fig. 2A, 209-forward messages) that corresponds to the first target identifier and that is in the chat information to a user (Fig. 2A, 209-selected receive end) corresponding to the second target identifier;
wherein a first identifier is an identifier determined based on the target session message (0009); and the first identifier comprises at least one of the following: an identifier of a sender of the target session message; an identifier of a user involved in the target session message (0009-identifiers of participants); or an identifier of a topic involved in the target session message.
As further concerns claim 6, the electronic device, comprising a processor (Fig. 7, 680) and a memory (Fig. 7, 620).
As concerns claim 16, a chip, wherein the chip comprises a processor (Fig. 7, 680) and a communication interface (Fig. 7, 610, 670), the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction, to implement the steps of the method for sending chat information according to claim 1 (see claim 1 above).
As concerns claim 3, 8, 13 and 18 the invention according to claim 1, 6, 11 and 16 wherein a quantity of first target identifiers is 1, and the first target identifier is the identifier of the sender of the target session message, or the first target identifier is the identifier of the user involved in the target session message, or the first target identifier is the identifier of the topic involved in the target session message, and
the sending a session message that corresponds to the first target identifier and that is in the chat information to a user corresponding to the second target identifier comprises:
sending a first session message to the user corresponding to the second target identifier, wherein the first session message comprises a session message that is sent by the sender and that is in the chat information; or
sending a second session message to the user corresponding to the second target identifier, wherein the second session message comprises a session message that is of a target user and that is in the chat information, and the target user is the user involved in the target session message (0009; 0013-participants of group chat; 0014-forwarding selected messages); or
sending a third session message to the user corresponding to the second target identifier, wherein the third session message comprises a session message that relates to the topic and that is in the chat information.
As concerns claims 4, 9, 14 and 19, the invention according to claim 1, 6, 11 and 16 wherein the first target identifier comprises a first specified identifier and a second specified identifier; and the sending a session message that corresponds to the first target identifier and that is in the chat information to a user corresponding to the second target identifier comprises: sending a specified session message in the chat information to the user corresponding to the second target identifier, wherein the specified session message comprises any one of the following:
a session message that relates to both the first specified identifier and the second specified identifier and that is in the chat information; a session message that relates to the first specified identifier and that is in the chat information and a session message that relates to the second specified identifier and that is in the chat information (0009; 0013-identifier of participants; 0067-0068); and a session message that relates to the second specified identifier and that is in a session message sent by a user corresponding to the first specified identifier.
As concerns claims 5, 10, 15 and 20, the invention according to claims 1, 6, 11 and 16, wherein a user identifier comprises at least one of the following: an identifier of a user (0009-identifiers of participants) involved in the target session message; an identifier corresponding a contact contacted by the user within specified duration from a current time; or identifiers corresponding to contacts contacted by the user in a unit period at frequencies ranking top N, wherein N is a positive integer.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed June 3, 2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
The applicant argues Wang fails to disclose the feature “displaying P user identifiers” in amended claim 1.
The claims are given the broadest reasonable interpretation and limitations from the specification are not read into the claims. Wang at least at paragraph 0009 disclose associated information comprising identifiers of participants and at least at paragraph 0021-forwarding the message content and associated information.
In response to applicant's argument that the references fail to show certain features of the invention, it is noted that the features upon which applicant relies (i.e., “Therefore, each of the M first identifiers is a type of identifier associated with the target session message. In this way, the first identifiers are used to categorize session messages in the chat information that meet specific conditions (i.e., session messages corresponding to the identifier of the sender of the target session message, or the identifier of the user involved in the target session message, or the identifier of the topic involved in the target session message) as a single type of session messages, to ensure that one type of session messages have relatively high associativity in various dimensions, so that associated session messages are all forwarded as one type of session messages. Therefore, the associated information in Wang is different from the M first identifiers in amended claim 1.”) are not recited in the rejected claim(s). Although the claims are interpreted in light of the specification, limitations from the specification are not read into the claims. See In re Van Geuns, 988 F.2d 1181, 26 USPQ2d 1057 (Fed. Cir. 1993).
The applicant argues “Wang does not involve associating a first target identifier among M first identifiers with a second target identifier among P user identifiers as claimed in claim 1.”
The claims are given the broadest reasonable interpretation and limitations from the specification are not read into the claims. Additionally the term “associate” is a broad term and this limitation is addressed in the rejection cited above. The inclusion of additional features by Wang does not preclude it from disclosing the claimed invention.
The applicant argues “Wang does not disclose the manner that; through associating the first target identifier among M first identifiers with the second target identifier among P user identifiers through a second input, the session message corresponding to the first target identifier in the chat information is sent to the user corresponding to the second target identifier in amended claim 1.”
The claims are given the broadest reasonable interpretation and limitations from the specification are not read into the claims. The applicant appears to be arguing limitations that are not disclosed in the claimed invention, since the claims do not set forth any specific “manner” and Wang discloses the claimed limitations as set forth in the rejection above.
Conclusion
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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