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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
2. This Office Action is in response to the Preliminary Amendment filed on 08/21/2024.
3. The IDS filed on 08/21/2024 is considered and entered into the application file.
4. Claims 1-20 are pending in this application, all claims are examined and rejected by NON-STATURTY DOUBLE PATENTING rejection herein below.
Double Patenting
5. Claims 1-17 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-17 of U.S. Patent No. US 11,977,725 B2.
Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because, as furnished in a side-to-side comparison (see table below), claims of the patent are compared to the current application claims they recite only obvious differences which would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of invention such as simply omitting/adding steps or elements along with their functions. For example each independent claims of the current application replaces “action script” with -module of the computer executable code having one or more function, and/or removes “action script” from all the claims. The present claims represent either attempts to secure broader coverage than the parent patent or more narrowly worded claims which nonetheless contain limitations which the claims of parent encompasses. Thus, it would have been obvious to modify (adding or removing) such claim elements , because the removal/adding of limitations from claims do not affect the remained claims methodology and/or structure.
6. Claims 18-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over independent claims 1, 7 and 12 of U.S. Patent No. US 11,977,725 B2 in view of U.S. Patent No. 5,946,674
The newly added claims 18-20 which depend on independent claims 1, 7 and 12 respectively, introduces Turing-complete computer programmable code comprising one or more scriptable functions.
Even though Turing-complete computer programmable code is well known in the art of computer scripting language, the claims of the patent US 11,977,725 B2 fall short to describe the claimed Turing-complete computer programmable code as required in each dependent claims 18, 19 and 20. On the other hand, U.S. Patent No. 5,946,674 discloses Turing Complete Computer Implemented Machine Learning Method And System (see title of the U.S. Patent No. 5,946,674 and col. 31, lines 59-62).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to combine the teaching of U.S. Patent No. 5,946,674 with US 11,977,725. Because the system utilizing Turing complete provides additional advantages including, among others, the use of several machine registers, dynamic allocation of memory, variable length of programs, Multiple input parameters to functions and unlimited memory through indexed memory (see U.S. Patent No. 5,946,674 , col. 31, lines 59-col. 32, lines 10).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to combine the above teaching of US. Patent No. 5,946,674 with US 11,977,725 B2 to obtain the invention as specified in claims 18,19 and 20.
US Application 18/655,551
US Patent 11,977,725
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1. (Currently amended) An electronic device comprising: a processor; a headset having a visual feedback screen ;one or more user interface devices; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to the headset, the virtual reality environment having an object, the object being within the virtual reality environment, created by a container having properties that define how the object interacts within the virtual reality environment, and having a three- dimensional mesh with coordinates defining a boundary of the object; in response to a first input from the or more user interface device, display an action menu within the virtual reality environment on the visual feedback screen, the action menu having a list of pre-defined or more user interface device, update the container for the object to include a selected module module
2. (Original) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is identified before the first input.
3. (Original) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is identified after the first input.
4. (Currently Amended) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a triggering event, update the container of the object to include the selected module
5. (Original) The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the triggering event is raised when a user interacts with a trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
6. (Currently Amended) The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: in response to a third input from at least one user interface device selecting a specific trigger object from a trigger menu, display a trigger condition menu having a list of one or more trigger conditions for the trigger object; and in response to a selection of a trigger condition for the trigger object, allows the user to place the trigger object into the virtual reality environment, wherein the trigger condition, when met, causes the processor to update [[the]] object computer code of the object to include the selected module
7. (Currently Amended) An electronic device comprising: a processor; a headset having a visual feedback screen; one or more user interface devices; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to the headset, the virtual reality environment having one or more object, each of the one or more object being within the virtual reality environment, created by a container having properties that define how the one or more object interact within the virtual reality environment, and having a first three-dimensional mesh with first coordinates defining a first boundary of the object; and in response to an input from at least one user interface device, connect a trigger object, having a second three-dimensional mesh with second coordinates defining a second boundary of the trigger object, selected from a trigger menu to the container of a particular object of the one or more object within the virtual reality environment, thereby forming a complex object within the container by linking the particular object and the trigger object using coordinate links between the first coordinates and the second coordinates, the complex object including one or more module of computer executable code having one or more function, the one or more function configured to affect one or more property of the container within the virtual reality environmentmodule
8. (Original) The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the trigger object is identified before the input.
9. (Original) The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the trigger object is identified after the input.
10. (Currently Amended) The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a trigger event, update the complex object to activate the one or more module
11. (Original) The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the trigger event is raised when the user interacts with the trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
12. (Currently Amended) A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by a processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to a headset, the virtual reality environment having one or more object, each of the one or more object being within the virtual reality environment, and created by a container having properties that define how the one or more object interact within the virtual reality environment, the one or more object having a three dimensional mesh with coordinates defining a boundary of the one or more object; in response to a first input from at least one user interface device selecting a first object of the one or more object within the virtual reality environment, display an action menu on a visual feedback screen having a list of pre- defined modules module module
13. (Original) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first object is identified before the first input.
14. (Original) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first object is identified after the first input.
15. (Currently Amended) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a triggering event, update the container of the first object to include the selected module
16. (Original) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the triggering event is raised when a user interacts with a trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
17. (Currently Amended) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a second input from at least one user interface device selecting a specific trigger object from a trigger menu, display a trigger condition menu having a list of one or more trigger conditions for the trigger object; and in response to a selection of a first trigger condition for the trigger object, allows a user to place the trigger object into the virtual reality environment, the trigger condition, when met, causes the processor to update the container of the first object to include the selected module
18. (New) The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the modules of computer executable code are modules of Turing-complete computer programmable code comprising one or more scriptable functions.
19. (New) The electronic device of claim 7 wherein the modules of computer executable code are modules of Turing-complete computer programmable code comprising one or more scriptable functions.
20. (New) The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein the modules of computer executable code are modules of Turing-complete computer programmable code comprising one or more scriptable functions.
1. An electronic device comprising: a processor; a headset having a visual feedback screen; one or more user interface devices; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to the headset, the virtual reality environment having an object, the object being within the virtual reality environment, created by a container having properties that define how the object interacts within the virtual reality environment, and having a three-dimensional mesh with coordinates defining a boundary of the object; in response to a first input from the at least one user interface device, display an action menu within the virtual reality environment on the visual feedback screen, the action menu having a list of pre-defined action scripts, the action scripts including a module of computer executable code having one or more function, the one or more function configured to affect the one or more property of the container within the virtual reality environment; and in response to a second input from the at least one user interface device, update the container for the object to include a selected action script, wherein the second input includes dragging, within the virtual reality environment on the visual feedback screen, the selected action script from the action menu onto the object.
2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is identified before the first input.
3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is identified after the first input.
4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a triggering event, update the container of the object to include a selected action script.
5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the triggering event is raised when a user interacts with a trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: in response to a third input from at least one user interface device selecting a specific trigger object from a trigger menu, display a trigger condition menu having a list of one or more trigger conditions for the trigger object; and in response to a selection of a trigger condition for the trigger object, allows the user to place the trigger object into the virtual reality environment, wherein the trigger condition, when met, causes the processor to update the object computer code of the object to include the selected action script.
7. An electronic device comprising: a processor; a headset having a visual feedback screen; one or more user interface devices; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to the headset, the virtual reality environment having one or more object, each of the one or more object being within the virtual reality environment, created by a container having properties that define how the one or more object interact within the virtual reality environment, and having a first three-dimensional mesh with first coordinates defining a first boundary of the object; and in response to an input from at least one user interface device, connect a trigger object, having a second three-dimensional mesh with second coordinates defining a second boundary of the trigger object, selected from a trigger menu to the container of a particular object of the one or more object within the virtual reality environment, thereby forming a complex object within the container by linking the particular object and the trigger object using coordinate links between the first coordinates and the second coordinates, the complex object including one or more action script; display, in the virtual reality environment on the visual feedback screen, a scriptable menu having trigger scriptable action for the trigger object; and in response to a selection of a trigger scriptable action for the trigger object, allow a user to associate the trigger scriptable action to the one or more action script of the complex object.
8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the trigger object is identified before the input.
9. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the trigger object is identified after the input.
10. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a trigger event, update the complex object to activate the at least one action script.
11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the trigger event is raised when the user interacts with the trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by a processor cause the processor to: project a virtual reality environment to a headset, the virtual reality environment having one or more object, each of the one or more object being within the virtual reality environment, and created by a container having properties that define how the one or more object interact within the virtual reality environment, the one or more object having a three dimensional mesh with coordinates defining a boundary of the one or more object; in response to a first input from at least one user interface device selecting a first object of the one or more object within the virtual reality environment, display an action menu on a visual feedback screen having a list of pre-defined action scripts, the action scripts including a module of computer executable code having one or more function, the one or more function configured to affect one or more property of the first object of the one or more object within the virtual reality environment; and in response to a second input from the at least one user interface device, update the container for the first object to include a selected action script, wherein the second input includes dragging, within the virtual reality environment on the visual feedback screen, the selected action script from the action menu onto the first object.
13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first object is identified before the first input.
14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first object is identified after the first input.
15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a triggering event, update the container of the first object to include a selected action script.
16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the triggering event is raised when a user interacts with a trigger object thereby meeting a pre-determined trigger condition.
17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor cause the processor to, in response to a second input from at least one user interface device selecting a specific trigger object from a trigger menu, display a trigger condition menu having a list of one or more trigger conditions for the trigger object; and in response to a selection of a first trigger condition for the trigger object, allows a user to place the trigger object into the virtual reality environment, the trigger condition, when met, causes the processor to update the container of the first object to include a selected action script.
[Wingdings font/0xDF]- the current application replaces “action script” with –module- or removes “action script” from all the claims.
[Wingdings font/0xDF]- the current application deleted “action script” and adds modules with one or more functions ..
[Wingdings font/0xDF] the current application replace the -selected action script- with “the selected module”
Claims 18-20 are newly added and recite - Turing-complete computer programmable code
Conclusion
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/TADESSE HAILU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2174