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 Office Action is in response to AMENDMENTS entered on October 27, 2025 for patent application 18/715,725 filed on June 2, 2024.
Claims 1-12, 14, 15 and 17-21 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-12, 14, 15 and 17-21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claims contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
The independent claims all recite “determining user distribution information associated with a target live room of the livestreaming platform by geolocating the client computing devices from the heartbeat signals to a region based on the heartbeat information, and determining a user distribution ratio based on the user distribution information (emphasis added by Examiner).” Examiner can find no support for this limitation in the specification as originally filed. The word “geolocating,” nor any variant, does not appear in the specification, and Examiner can find no discussion that can be seen as conveying the same concepts.
The independent claims also all recite “determining whether click-farming exists in the target live room based on the user distribution ratio and the population density distribution ratio by determining, for each region, a distribution variation and determining that click-farming exists when at least one distribution variation for a region satisfies a preset detection threshold (emphasis added by Examiner).” Examiner can find no support for this limitation in the specification as originally filed. The term “preset detection threshold” does not appear in the specification, nor does the word “detection,” or any variation.
The independent claims also all recite “in response to determining that click-farming exists, automatically initiating a platform enforcement action with respect to the livestreaming platform.” Examiner can find no support for this limitation in the specification as originally filed. The term “platform enforcement action” does not appear in the specification, nor does the word “enforcement,” or any variation.
Appropriate correction or explanation is required.
Conclusion
Claims 1-12, 14, 15 and 17-21 are rejected.
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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/Joshua D Taylor/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2426 January 14, 2026
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