DETAILED ACTION
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
1. A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on June 25, 2026 has been entered.
Amendment
2. Receipt is acknowledged of the amendment filed on June 25, 2026. In the amendment claims 29-31 were newly added. Currently claims 15-31 remain in the examination.
Claim Objections
3. Claims 20 and 23 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Regarding claim 20, line 1: please delete “either” in front “of Claim 18.”
Regarding claim 23, line 1: please delete “at least.”
Regarding claims 16-18, 22, 24, and 25, please insert “further” in front of “comprising.”
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
4. 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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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.
5. 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.
6. Claims 15-24 and 26-29 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 2024/0388657 A1 to Fucci et al. (cited in the previous Office Action, hereinafter “Fucci”).
Regarding claims 15 and 28, Fucci discloses a method and a system for generating a digital emergency record (see abstract) comprising creating a digital emergency card 1126 (see figure 11C and paragraph 0104) for a user wherein the address for the emergency indicates the building (or location) of the emergency; and the emergency data received by EDRP 120 is stored in one or more database 124 (see figure 1 and paragraph 0053); and with the emergency data, transmits for the service providers and others to respond to the emergency (see paragraph 0039). Digital emergency record/card 1126 as shown in figure 11C show the location of the emergency including the building location (see figure 11C and paragraph 0104). As shown in figure 12A, the location of the emergency is shown on the map, and given the address of the emergency, the perimeter around the building is also disclosed (also see paragraph 0056).
Regarding claim 16, the emergency data is updated as updated information is received (see paragraph 0040 and 0054).
Regarding claim 17, the ESP operator is remined to resolve the alert is resolved or in a predetermined time (see paragraph 0104).
Regarding claim 18, as shown in figure 11C, each emergency 1111 is being tracked, and detail panel is activated showing the additional details of the emergency, which can be interpreted as valid emergency service request.
Regarding claim 19, when the user requesting the emergency service is providing the user identifier such as telephone number or email address (see paragraph 0053), the user provides information for validation.
Regarding claim 20, each occurrence of an emergency is comprised of a status (see paragraphs 0097, 0103, and 0104), and the status of the emergency is also monitored (see paragraph 0111).
Regarding claim 21, when a user calls for emergency service and provides a telephone number and email address (see paragraphs 0053 and 0071), the user may be notified the text or other communication means.
Regarding claim 22, see the description for claim 21 above. When user provides identifying information such as an email or phone number, it is an agreement that the user may be notified.
Regarding claim 23, when an emergency alert is received, the system makes a query as to another service request was previously received (see paragraph 0053). The user can provide a response to the current request or the previous request.
Regarding claim 24, an SMS messages may be delivered to a user or a group of users regarding the alert (see paragraph 0080). The group of users may be considered a specific perimeter.
Regarding claim 26, relying on figure 11A, after emergency is reported, an alert may be transmitted to the targeted people (see paragraph 0102).
Regarding claim 27, the emergency may be medical, safety or other emergency issues (see paragraph 0051).
Regarding claim 29, the security system can be done in a provide mode (see paragraph 0111), and in such a case, the server and other sensors and devices can be in the premise.
Allowable Subject Matter
7. Claims 25, 30, and 31 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.
8. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Claims are directed at a method for providing a digital emergency card, comprising:
creating (S1) a digital emergency card for a building by a user of the digital emergency card,
wherein the digital emergency card specifies a layout of the building, wherein the layout of the building comprises one or more of: (1) a set of occupants of the building, (2) a location of walls in the building, (3) a location of one or more hazardous features of the building, or (4) a perimeter around the building;
storing (S2) the digital emergency card in a storage medium (4) in the building (2);
reading (S3) the digital emergency card from the storage medium (4); and transmitting (S4) to emergency services, after reading, the stored emergency card;
and transmitting the digital emergency information to authorized receivers (12) within the specified perimeter.
This is a combined limitation of claims 15 and 25. Such a method wherein transmitting of the digital emergency information is only to the authorized receivers around the geographic perimeter of the building as recited in claim 25 is neither disclosed nor suggested by the cited references. Applicant is reminded of the claim dependence of claim 25 and ensure of that the limitations of all intervening claims are incorporated. The limitations in the other objected claims are also allowable.
Response to Arguments
9. Applicant’s filing of RCE including claim amendment and arguments filed on June 25, 2026 have been carefully reviewed and considered. As shown in the above rejection, the amended limitation of claims 15 and 28 are still disclosed by the Fucci reference, and some dependent claims are now disposed to be allowable. This Office Action is made non-final.
Conclusion
The pertinent prior arts made of record but not relied are listed in the attached form PTO-892. These are considered pertinent to Applicant's disclosure. Applicant is respectfully suggested to carefully review these references.
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/AHSHIK KIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
July 10, 2026
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