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 communication is responsive to the application filed on 11/14/2024.
Claims 1-19 are pending in this application. This action is made non-final.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 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 the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, 9-11, and 18-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Jain et al. (US 2015/0074072; Hereinafter Jain).
Re claims 1, 10, and 19, Jain teaches a widget display method applied to an electronic device, wherein the method comprises:
displaying, in a first area, a first widget of a first application and a second widget of a second application (figs. 3-4, displaying documents in the plurality of snippets);
detecting a pinch gesture, wherein a first contact point of the pinch gesture is at the first widget, and a second contact point of the pinch gesture is at the second widget (fig. 4E and [0083], in response to a pinch gesture, merging first and second snippet 406C and 406D); and
in response to the pinch gesture, combining the first widget and the second widget into a first composite widget for displaying in the first area (fig. 4E and [0083], in response to a pinch gesture, merging first and second snippet 406C and 406D).
Re claims 2 and 11, the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated. Jain teaches wherein before the displaying, in the first area, the first widget of the first application and the second widget of the second application, further comprising: detecting that an ongoing task exists in the first application (fig. 2. Performing search, identifying search results).
Re claims 9 and 18, the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated. Jain teaches the first application is a video application ([0021], video file).
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 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 of this title, 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 8 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jain in view of Gordon et al. (US 2021/0037004; Hereinafter Gordon).
Re claims 8 and 17, the rejection of claim 2 is incorporated. Jain teaches wherein the detecting that the ongoing task exists in the first application comprises:
detecting that, on another electronic device, the ongoing task exists in the first application (fig. 2. Performing search, identifying search results) but Jain does not explicitly teach a same user account logged on. However, it is taught by Gordon ([0042], user may log in to accounts. Also see [0109], the resource may be configurable to combine or merge information for the first identity and the second identity based on the single authentication gesture).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to add the teaching as seen in Gordon’s content into Jain’s invention because it would allow user to manage task(s) that user is performing.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-4, 5-7, and 12-16 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims set forth in this action.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record on form PTO-892 and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Applicant is required under 37 C.F.R. § 1.111 ( c ) to consider these references fully when responding to this action.
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