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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments, filed 10/09/2025, with respect to claims 1-13 and 15-21 have been fully considered and are persuasive. The previous rejection has been withdrawn.
Claims 1-13 have been amended, claim 14 has been canceled and claims 15-21 have been newly added.
Allowable Subject Matter
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
The prior art fails to neither disclose nor sufficiently suggest the combination of features as claimed and arranged by applicant. Specifically, the prior art does not disclose “in response to determining that the predetermined content is ready to play, rendering, on the display of the electronic device, the first avatar from the first virtual space into a second virtual space while the predetermined content is played; and in response to determining that the predetermined content is finished playing in the second virtual space, rendering, on the display of the electronic device, the first avatar from the second virtual space into a third virtual space after the predetermined content is played, wherein the first virtual space, the second virtual space, and the third virtual space are different from each other” as required by the independent claims.
Claims 13-21 are allowed.
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.
Claims 1 and 5 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.
Claim 1 recites “in response to determining that the predetermined content is ready to play, rendering, on the display of the information processing system, the first avatar from the first virtual space into a second virtual space while the predetermined content is played while the predetermined content is played”. The last sentence is a duplicate.
Claim 5 recites “the information processing system of claim 1, further comprising executing, by the information processing system, a first action that by the first avatar in the third virtual space only where the first avatar performed a second action performed in the second virtual space”. The highlighted portion is not clear.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/YASSIN ALATA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2426