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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 09/13/2024; 09/20/2024; 11/15/2024 have been considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Hasegawa (US 2022/0286809; Cited in IDS) in view of Li et al. (US 2023/0029683; Cited in IDS).
Regarding claim 1, Hasegawa discloses a communication device comprising
a communication control section (Fig. 1 vehicle control device 1) configured to control wireless communication with another communication device that is different from the communication device, in conformity with a designated communication standard (paragraphs [0008], [0029]; e.g., The vehicle control device 10 controls the first communication unit 50 to perform BLE communication polling, and establishes the BLE communication between the vehicle 1 and the user terminal 90).
Hasegawa fails to specifically disclose in a case where a trigger signal received from the other communication device includes no unique information that is necessary to identify a mobile object, the communication control section does not start a subsequent process to be triggered by the reception of the trigger signal but maintains a reception standby state for receiving another trigger signal.
However, Li discloses in a case where a trigger signal received from the other communication device includes no unique information that is necessary to identify a mobile object, the communication control section does not start a subsequent process to be triggered by the reception of the trigger signal but maintains a reception standby state for receiving another trigger signal (paragraph [0135], [0197]).
Therefore, taking the teachings of Hasegawa in combination of Li as a whole, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention by applicant where a trigger signal received from the other communication device includes no unique information that is necessary to identify a mobile object, the communication control section does not start a subsequent process to be triggered by the reception of the trigger signal but maintains a reception standby state for receiving another trigger signal in order to improve security of the imperceptible unlock service (Li: paragraph [0196]).
Conclusion
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/TIMOTHY X PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3648
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