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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Invention V (claims 29-36) in the reply filed on 2/23/2026 is acknowledged.
Claim Objections
Claim29 objected to because of the following informalities: the applicant recites “encrypting the signed massage”. It is believed it should recite “message.” In the preamble the applicant also recites “a second public-private key part”. It is believed this should recite “pair”
Regarding claim 29, the applicant further uses language such as “to be used for biolocked communications,” “to be used by an SVA client” and/or “to be used by the SVA platform” which is an intended used and not given patentable weight. It is recommended to the applicant to positively recite this functionality within the claim language.
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
Claim 29-36rejected 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.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant recites a “method of communicating using bio-locked tokens,” however, within the confines of the claim, there is no communication used as such. It is unclear whether the signed message is the bio-locked token or another token exists as such.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant further recites the use of two private-public key pairs with the preamble of the claim, but within the body of the claim only recites signing with a first key pair and second key pair. It is unclear if these are the same key pairs are the two public-private key pairs.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant recites “generating a message” but it is unclear which entity (client or SVA platform) is performing the step.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant recites “signing.. by an SVA client…” it is unclear whether is signing is done by the SVA client or the enrollment is.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant recites “encrypting a message” but it is unclear which entity (client or SVA platform) is performing the step.
Regarding claim 29, the applicant recites “transmitting a message” but it is unclear which entity (client or SVA platform) is performing the step. (is the transmission from one client to another or the SVA platform to the client?).
Dependent claims 30-36 do not cure the deficiencies of independent claim 29 so they are rejected under the same rationale as above.
Regarding claim 30, the applicant recites “the signing steps” which lack antecedent basis in the claims. It is recommended to the applicant to remove “the signing steps” and replace it with just “signing.”
Regarding claim 31, the applicant recites “said signing and encrypting steps” which lack antecedent basis in the claims. It is recommended to the applicant to remove “said signing and encrypting steps” and replaced it with just “signing and encrypting.”
Regarding claim 32, the applicant recites “performs first level encryption” which is indefinite as it is not clear that there are different levels of encryption and/or how the different levels relate to one another.
Regarding claim 33-34, the applicant recites “the transmitting step” which lack antecedent basis in the claims. It is recommended to the applicant to remove “the transmitting step” and replace it with just “transmitting.”
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Machani et al (US 2020/0252381) discloses account recovery using an identity assurance scoring system. One method comprises providing multiple available identity assurance techniques, each assigned a corresponding identity assurance value indicating a level of assurance for the corresponding available identity assurance technique; in response to a user request to obtain access to a protected resource following a loss incident of a user authenticator: receiving, from the user, authentication information associated with the available identity assurance techniques; aggregating the corresponding assigned identity assurance values for the received available identity assurance techniques to determine an aggregate identity assurance value; determining if the aggregate identity assurance value satisfies a predefined identity assurance level criteria; and evaluating the user request to access the protected resource based on the determining. The corresponding assigned identity assurance value of a given available identity assurance technique is optionally modified based on the available identity assurance techniques that have already been performed.
Sweet et al (US 2018/0309747) discloses an agent executive running concurrent with a security module, when initially executed, obtains an agent API key from a user. This key is communicated to a grid computer system. An agent identity token, generated by a cryptographic token generation protocol when the API key is valid, is received from the grid and stored in a secure data store associated with the agent executive. Information that evaluates the integrity of the agent executive is collected using agent self-verification factors. The information, encrypted and signed with a cryptographic signature, is communicated to the grid. Commands are obtained from the grid by the agent executive to check the security, compliance, and integrity of the computer system. Based on these check results, additional commands are obtained by the grid by the agent executive to correct security, compliance, and integrity problems and/or to prevent security comprises.
Wicker (US 2013/0101117) discloses private overlay is provided for information networking that puts the user in charge of the user's personal information. User identity is separated from a numeric tag that points to the cell in which the user equipment can be paged. The private overlay is created by addition of a registration and certification authority such as Public Key Infrastructure and Certification Authority (PKI). The registration and certification authority provides the network and all subscribers with public encryption keys for the network and the users. Private decryption key are generated and stored locally in a suitable manner. With this addition, a private overlay to the existing cellular, wireless or utility distribution infrastructure can be established for a device that has registered with, e.g., a cellular or wireless network or with a utility distribution system.
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/KENDALL DOLLY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2436
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