18DETAILED ACTION
1. 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 §103
2. 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.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Srinivasan et al (Pub. No.: US 2018/0302659 A1; hereinafter Srinivasan) in view of Pichaimurthy et al (Pub. No.: US 2025/0047326 A1; hereinafter Pichaimurthy)
Consider claims 1, 11, and 20, Srinivasan clearly shows and discloses a system, a product, and a method, comprising: receiving, at an information handling device of a user during a video session, a video feed occurring in substantially real-time and displaying at least one object (A client device 110A obtains 405 video data from an image capture device 305 included in the client device 110A. For example, a camera included in the client device 110A captures 405 video data) (paragraphs: 0047, fig. 4, label 405,410, and 415); receiving, from the user, input adjusting at least one characteristic of the video feed via adjustment of a parameter of a device capturing the at least one video feed (As the viewing client device 110B presents 420 the video data obtained 405 by the client device 110A, the viewing client device 110B obtains 425 a request to modify the video data from the viewing user. The obtained request identifies one or more modifications to the obtained video data) (paragraphs:0051 and 0052, fig. 4, labels: 425, and 430); and providing, from the information handling device, instructions to a remote information handling device capturing the video feed to adjust the at least one characteristic of the video fee (The online system 140 receives the modified video data from the client device 110A and provides 440 the modified video data to the viewing client device 110B, which presents 445 the modified video data to the viewing user. Alternatively, the online system 140 performs the modification to the video data corresponding to the request received from the viewing client device 110B to the video data received from the client device 110A and provides 440 the modified video data to the viewing client device 110B, which presents 445 the modified video data to the viewing user) (paragraphs: 0054 and fig. 4, labels: 435 and 440, and 445); however, Srinivasan does not specifically disclose another example for receiving, from the user, input adjusting at least one characteristic of the video feed via adjustment of a parameter of a device capturing the at least one video feed.
In the same field of endeavor, Pichaimurthy clearly specifically specifically disclose another example for receiving, from the user, input adjusting at least one characteristic of the video feed via adjustment of a parameter of a device capturing the at least one video feed (video feed such as audio) (paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to incorporate the teaching of Pichaimurthy into teaching of Srinivasan for the purpose of providing more example for adjusting video feed such as audio data instead of image data.
Consider claims 2, and 12, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein adjusting the at least one characteristic of the video feed comprises adjusting the parameter of the device prior to subsequent portions of the video feed being received at the information handling device (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0005-0006, 0015; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 3, and 13, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the providing instructions comprises providing instructions that adjust a video capture setting of the remote information handling device (Srinivasan: fig. 4; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 4, and 14, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein a video session comprises other devices in addition to the information handling device and the remote information handling device and wherein the providing the instructions is responsive to receiving confirmation from at least one of the other devices to adjust the at least one characteristic (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0005-0006, 0015 and fig. 4; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 5, and 15, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the receiving confirmation comprises receiving confirmation from a predetermined threshold of the other devices and wherein the providing instructions is performed when the predetermined threshold is met (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0054, 0050; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 6, and 16, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, comprising saving the instructions for the remote information handling device and implementing the instructions upon detection of a subsequent video session (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0044 and fig. 4; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 7, and 17, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the implementing the instructions upon detection of a subsequent video session is based upon detecting a context for the subsequent video session having similar characteristics to a context of the video session (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0005-0006, 0015, 0044; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 8 and 18, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the implementing the instruction upon detection of a subsequent video sessions is based upon detecting the user as a participant in the video session (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0050 - 0052, fig. 4, labels: 420, 425 and 430; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claims 9 and 19, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the providing instructions is performed iteratively upon subsequent detections of a criteria resulting in adjustment of the at least one characteristic (Srinivasan: fig. 4, label 425 and 430; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Consider claim 10, Srinivasan and Pichaimurthy clearly show the system and the method, wherein the at least one characteristic of the video feed comprises at least one of: an image characteristic and an audio characteristic (Srinivasan: paragraphs: 0005-0006, 0015; Pichaimurthy: paragraph 0033 and fig. 3, label 308).
Conclusion
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/AMAL S ZENATI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2693