DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Prosecutorial Standing
2. This communication is in response to the Preliminary Amendment filed on 11.22.2024. Claims 1-7, 9-11 have been amended, and new 12-20 have been added. Therefore, claims 1-7, 9-11, and 12-20 are currently pending in this application. Claims 1-7, 9-11, and 12-20 will be subject to further examination and evaluation in due course, and will be presented for examination, as detailed below.
Oath/Declaration
3. The Applicant’s oath/declaration has been reviewed by the Examiner and is found to conform to the requirements prescribed in 37 C.F.R. 1.63.
Information Disclosure Statement
4. As required by M.P.E.P. 609(C), the Applicant' s submission of the Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) dated 12.26.2024 is acknowledged by the Examiner. The cited references have been considered in the examination of the claims. As required by M.P.E.P 609 C (2), a copy of the PTOL-1449 initialed, signed and dated by the Examiner is attached to the instant Office action.
Priority / Filing Date
5. Applicants' claim for priority of Foreign Application China 202210572166.5 filed on 05.24.2022 is acknowledged. The Examiner takes the FA Application date of 05.24.2022 into consideration.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
6. 35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception (i.e., a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea), an abstract idea without significantly more.
Claims 1-20 are directed to the technical field of computer, such as an order information management method, device, and system, an electronic apparatus and a storage medium.
Independent claims 1 and 10 have been identified as the claims that represent the claimed invention for analysis. Claims 1 and 10 are directed to an order information management method, comprising the steps of:
obtaining a message of a new order;
synchronizing order information of the new order;
obtaining an order status update message of the new order;
synchronizing updated order status information of the new order;
complete synchronous management of the order information.
These limitations when considered individually and as an ordered combination, describe an order information management an order reconciliation. These limitations fall within the category of a fundamental economic practice and certain methods of organizing human activity, including: commercial interactions (e.g., capture and reconcile new orders), which has been identified as an abstract idea. (See Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. V. CLS Bank International et al., 573 U.S._(2014) (slip op., at 7-10)), and buySafe, Inc. v. Google, Inc. Accordingly, claims 1 and 10 recite an abstract idea.
This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. In particular, the claims recite the additional elements of: “an information platform, a message source terminal, a new order synchronization module, one or more processors, and a storage device”.
Note that the limitations, in the instant claims, are done by the generically recited "one or more processors, and a storage device having stored thereon a plurality of instruction that when executed by the information management method to: “obtaining a message of a new order; synchronizing order information of the new order; obtaining an order status update message of the new order; synchronizing updated order status information of the new order; complete synchronous management of the order information". The limitations are merely instructions to implement the abstract idea on a computer and require no more than a generic computer to perform generic computer functions that are well-understood, routine and conventional activities previously known to the industry.
Accordingly, these additional elements and components, when considered separately and as an ordered combination, do not integrate the abstract idea without a practical application because they do not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea and are at a high level of generality, and do not improve the functioning of a computer itself or the order information management or other technology, and do not provide a particular machine configuration in a meaningful way beyond generally linking it to a generic environment. Instead, the additional elements and components merely implement the abstract idea in a generic and conventional environment, and amount to insignificant extra-solution activity, such as displaying information and facilitating human actions. Therefore, claims 1 and 10 is directed to an abstract idea without a practical application.
Consequently, these additional elements and components, do not change the outcome of the analysis, when considered individually and as an ordered combination as there is no inventive concept sufficient to transform the claimed subject matter into a patent-eligible application. Therefore, claims 1 and 10 are directed to an abstract idea (e.g., order information management method, device, and system apparatus and storage medium) without significantly more. Accordingly, claims 1 and 10 are not patent eligible.
Viewed as a whole, these additional claim elements and components do not provide meaningful limitations to transform the abstract idea into a patent eligible application of the abstract idea such that the claim integrate the abstract idea into a practical application or amount to significantly more than the abstract idea itself. Therefore, the claims are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter (see Alice Corp v CLS).
Furthermore, claims 2-7, 9, and 11-20 define the same that is present in their respective independent claims 1, 8, and 10, are considered to be part of the abstract idea above and merely act to further limit it. In the dependent claims, the additional element(s) or combination of elements in the claim(s) other than the abstract idea per se amount(s) to no more than: mere instructions to implement the idea on a computer functioning in a standard mode of operation or matters that are routine and conventional in the field. Therefore, they are considered patent ineligible for the reasons given above.
Additionally, claims 2-7, 9, and 11-20 do not pertain to a technological problem being solved in a meaningful way beyond generally linking the use of the judicial exception to a particular technological environment, and/or the limitations fail to achieve an actual improvement in computer functionality or improvement in specific technology other than using the computer as a tool to perform the abstract idea. Therefore, the claims are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter (see Alice Corp v CLS).
Allowable Subject Matter
7. Helft et al., Pub. No.: US 2021/0304146, is considered the closest prior art to the subject matter of claim 1 of the current application. Helft discloses systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating data visualization in collaborative network systems in tablature. The systems and methods may involve maintaining a plurality of boards, each board of the plurality of boards contains multiple items, at least some of the items being associated with an entity and wherein at least some of the items include calendar-related information; accessing a calendar of the entity; performing a lookup across the plurality of boards for the items associated with the entity; performing an analysis of the items associated with the entity to determine whether the items are calendar-related; syncing the calendar-related items associated with the entity with the accessed calendar by rendering on the calendar, graphical indicators linked to the items; receiving a selection of a specific graphical indicator rendered on the calendar.
However, claim 1 of the current application discloses obtaining a message of a new order of a target user on at least one first-type information platform, synchronizing order information of the new order to a second-type information platform of the target user, and synchronizing updated order status information of the new order from a message source terminal on the first-type information platform and the second-type information platform to a non-message source terminal, so as to complete synchronous management of the order information, wherein the first-type information platform and the second-type information platform are different order information sources and different information management platforms of the target user, and the second-type information platform is a main order information summary management platform.
Those limitations when considering the claim as a whole were not found in the Helft prior art.
Conclusion
8. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The PTO-1449 forms have been reviewed and considered.
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/Garcia Ade/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3627
GARCIA ADE
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 3687
/GA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3627
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