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Status of Application
Claims 1-18 are pending in the present application.
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Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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Claims 1, 12, and 16 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1, 11, and 15, respectively, of U.S. Patent No. 12,159,277 B2. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because every claim limitation in the application under examination is recited in the conflicting reference patent claims. The differences between the claims are highlighted below by italicizing all limitations that differ and bolding limitations that conflict.
Please note that in the interest of time, the examiner is selecting only one of the independent claims from the instant application and U.S. Patent for the table below.
Instant Application
U.S. Patent No. 12,159,277 B2
Claim 1. A system for user-side storage and processing of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) said system capable of communicating, via resource-sharing protocol, with a public distributed trust computing network comprising decentralized nodes, said system comprising:
a user computing platform comprising:
one or more first computing processing devices;
a first memory in communication with at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices and comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) that operates in accordance with a resource-sharing protocol; and
a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital wallet stored in the first memory, executable by at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices, registered with the resource-sharing protocol and configured to identify the user,
wherein the NVRAM is configured to be shared with the public distributed trust computing for purposes of: (1) storing a NFT either: (2) generated by the user computing platform or (i) acquired by a user of the user computing platform and previously authenticated via consensus of a plurality of the decentralized nodes, and (2) performing first NFT processes that would otherwise be performed within the public distributed trust computing network.
Claim 1. A system for user-side storage and processing of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), the system comprising:
a user computing platform including:
one or more first computing processing devices,
a first memory in communication with at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices and comprising a minimum of one gigabyte (GB) of non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) that operates in accordance with a resource-sharing protocol,
a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital wallet stored in the first memory, executable by at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices, registered with the resource-sharing protocol and configured to identify the user; and
a public distributed trust computing network comprising decentralized nodes, each decentralized node having a second memory and one or more second computing processing devices in communication with the second memory, wherein the public distributed trust computing network communicates with the user computing platform via the resource-sharing protocol,
wherein the NVRAM is configured to be shared with the public distributed trust computing for purposes of (1) storing a NFT (i) generated by the user computing platform or (ii) acquired by a user of the user computing platform and previously authenticated via consensus of a plurality of the decentralized nodes, and (2) performing first NFT processes that would otherwise be performed within the public distributed trust computing network.
Claims 2-10, 13-15, and 17-18 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 2-10, 12-14, and 16-17, respectively, of U.S. Patent No. 12,159,277 B2.
Claims 1, 12, and 16 are provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 2, 12, and 17, respectively, of copending Application No. 18/820,390 (reference application). Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because every claim limitation in the application under examination is recited in the conflicting reference application. The differences between the claims are highlighted below by italicizing all limitations that differ and bolding limitations that conflict.
This is a provisional nonstatutory double patenting rejection because the patentably indistinct claims have not in fact been patented.
Please note that in the interest of time, the examiner is selecting only one of the independent claims from the instant application and U.S. Patent for the table below.
Instant Application
Application No. 18/820,390
Claim 1. A system for user-side storage and processing of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) said system capable of communicating, via resource-sharing protocol, with a public distributed trust computing network comprising decentralized nodes, said system comprising:
a user computing platform comprising:
one or more first computing processing devices;
a first memory in communication with at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices and comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) that operates in accordance with a resource-sharing protocol; and
a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital wallet stored in the first memory, executable by at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices, registered with the resource-sharing protocol and configured to identify the user,
wherein the NVRAM is configured to be shared with the public distributed trust computing for purposes of: (1) storing a NFT either: (i) generated by the user computing platform or (ii) acquired by a user of the user computing platform and previously authenticated via consensus of a plurality of the decentralized nodes, and (2) performing first NFT processes that would otherwise be performed within the public distributed trust computing network.
Claim 1. A system for user-side storage and processing of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), said system capable of communicating, via resource-sharing protocol, with a public distributed trust computing network comprising decentralized nodes, said system comprising:
a user computing platform comprising:
one or more first computing processing devices; and
a first memory in communication with the one or more first computing processing devices and comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) that operates in accordance with the resource-sharing protocol,
wherein the NVRAM is configured to be shared with the public distributed trust computing network for purposes of: (1) storing a NFT either (i) generated by the user computing platform or (ii) acquired by a user of the user computing platform and previously authenticated via consensus of a plurality of the decentralized nodes of the public distributed trust computing network, and (2) performing NFT processes on behalf of the public distributed trust computing network, wherein one of the NFT processes comprises confirming an NFT including verifying an authenticity of the NFT and parties to a transaction associated with the NFT.
Claim 2. The system of Claim 1, wherein the user computing platform further comprises a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital wallet stored in the first memory, executable by at least one of the one or more first computing processing devices, registered with the resource-sharing protocol and configured to identify the user.
Claims 2-4 are provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 3-5, respectively, of copending Application No. 18/820,390 (reference application).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Caklovic, US 8051246 B1, discloses utilizing a semiconductor memory of a node as disk cache [Abstract].
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/Farley Abad/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2181