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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1- 3, 16, 17, 19 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
In claim 1, lines 2, 4 and 9, the phrase “arranged for” renders the claim indefinite. The metes and bounds of the claim cannot be determined. The claimed limitations are not positively recited. For example, claim 1, lines 2-3, “the terminal, arranged for sending a cloud desktop service request to the cloud desktop server”. There is no positively recited step of ---sending a cloud desktop service request---.
Regarding claim 16, 17 and 19 “the main channel” has no clear antecedent basis.
“the sub-channels”, claim 19, has no clear antecedent basis.
Regarding claim 20, “the creation strategy parameters of the sub-channels or the main channel” has no clear antecedent basis.
Claims 8 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being incomplete for omitting essential steps, such omission amounting to a gap between the steps. See MPEP § 2172.01. The omitted step is: the step of determining operation form network redirection (claim 8) and the step of creating a first virtual network card (claim 11).
[Note: The claims contained recited functions which are intended used limitations and not positively recited. The metes and bounds cannot be determined. Thus, patentable weight is not given to limitations following the phrase “arranged for”.]
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-4, 9 and 15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wang et al. [CN 114257585]
Regarding claims 1, 4, 9 and 15, Wang et al. a cloud desktop system, comprising: a terminal and a cloud desktop server (Fig. 2); the terminal, arranged for sending a cloud desktop service request to the cloud desktop server (page 5, lines 9 – 17); the cloud desktop server cooperated in conjunction with the terminal, arranged for, in response to the cloud desktop service request, establishing a network redirection channel between the cloud desktop server and the terminal according to a cloud desktop transmission protocol (page 6, lines 20-32), the cloud desktop transmission protocol supporting the establishment of the network redirection channel (page 5, lines 24 – 41); the cloud desktop server, further arranged for redirecting a desktop network request of the cloud desktop server to the terminal through the network redirection channel (page 5, lines 34-40; page 6, lines 33 -36); the terminal, further arranged for accessing a destination address corresponding to the desktop network request and providing a request result of the desktop network request returned from the destination address to the cloud desktop server through the network redirection channel (page 5, line 38 – page 6, line 11 and page 7, lines 1-8), as claimed.
Regarding claim 2, see Example 3, page 8.
Regarding claim 3, page 2, paragraph 3.
Regarding claim 15, claim 15 recites “in response to the desktop network meeting the preset network redirection rule” is a contingent limitation. See MPEP 2111.04.
{The broadest reasonable interpretation of a method (or process) claim having contingent limitations requires only those steps that must be performed and does not include steps that are not required to be performed because the condition(s) precedent are not met. For example, assume a method claim requires step A if a first condition happens and step B if a second condition happens. If the claimed invention may be practiced without either the first or second condition happening, then neither step A or B is required by the broadest reasonable interpretation of the claim. If the claimed invention requires the first condition to occur, then the broadest reasonable interpretation of the claim requires step A. If the claimed invention requires both the first and second conditions to occur, then the broadest reasonable interpretation of the claim requires both steps A and B.} [AltContent: rect]
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 5-8, 10, 12 and 16-21 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable over the prior art if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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