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
This communication is in response to the application filed on 05/24/2024 in which Claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Drawings
The applicant’s drawings submitted on 05/24/2024 are acceptable for examination purposes.
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 are directed to non-statutory subject matter.
As to claims 1, 13 and 17, claims 1, 13 and 17 appear to be directed to an abstract idea rather than a practical application of the idea. The claim does not result in a physical transformation, nor does it appear to provide a useful, concrete and tangible result. The claimed step of " A method for generating and managing a security level-aware map, the method comprising: receiving a map request from a first user to generate a map with a map security level; determining if the map security level satisfies a first security condition; in response to determining that the map security level satisfies the first security level threshold, generating the map with the map security level…" Thus, what results from the claimed method is merely a security map. The security map is not claimed as applied in a practical application, which provides a tangible, i.e., real world result. security map is not produced a tangible result, because it does not use the result of the connect in a practical application nor make the result available for use in such a form as to enable any usefulness of having performed the step of pairing to be realized. Instead, it appears to remain a mere abstraction. Therefore, claim 1 is not statutory and it is rejected under 35 U. S. C. 101.
The dependent claims 2-12, 14-16 and 18-20 included in the statement of rejection but not specifically addressed in the body of the rejection have inherited the deficiencies of their parent claim and have not resolved the deficiencies. Therefore, they are rejected based on the same rationale as applied to their parent claims above.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. These include.
US 20100235640 A1 – Satoh relates to an information processing apparatus, a method of mutual authentication, mutual authentication program, and storage medium, and more particularly, to an information processing apparatus capable of data communications based on mutual authentication, a method of mutual authentication, a mutual authentication program, and a storage medium storing the mutual authentication program.
US 20110238840 A1- Shi relates to network communications technologies, and in particular, to a method, system, and device for service negotiation.
US 20160026786 A1 Thomas discloses a security techniques and, more particularly, to security techniques for allowing access to applications of a mobile device.
Conclusion
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/EVANS DESROSIERS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2491