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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This office action is responsive to application filed on 10/29/2024. Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
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) without significantly more.
Step 1, The claims invention as recited in claims 1 and 11, is directed to managing transmission of data by prioritizing, queuing and conditionally forwarding data based on status information. The claims recite, monitoring outgoing data, determining a priority level, queuing the data based on the priority, monitoring status information indicating availability of shared communication interface, and forwarding or delaying transmission of the data based on the status information. These limitations describe organizing and controlling the flow of data using rules and conditions, which is data processing and decision making. Which falls within the category of abstract ideas, including managing information and conditional decision logic, as set forth in the USPTO’s Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance. Therefore, the claims are directed to an abstract idea of Certain Methods of Organizing human activity and Mental Processes.
Step 2A. The claims recite that the abstract idea is performed in the context of a Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) network, an over the air interface, and Secure Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps. However, the claims do not recite how these elements are modified or improved. Rather, the claims use these components to carry out the abstract idea of data prioritization and conditional forwarding. The claims do not describe an improvement to the operation of SNMP itself, no improvement to radio transmission protocols, no change to how the over- the- air interface function and no specific technical mechanism are used that improves performance. Instead, the recited network components are employed in their conventional capacities to implement the abstract idea. Therefore, the clams do not integrate eh abstract idea into a practical application.
Step 2 B, the additional elements recited in the claims include: priority-based queuing, backoff periods, acknowledgements, monitoring SNMP traps and forwarding data to a terminal for transmission, represent well understood, routine and conventional networking techniques commonly used to manage shared communication resources. The claims do not recite any specialized hardware, novel data structure, or unconventional signaling techniques. As such, the claims do not add significantly more than the abstract idea itself.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure (see PTO 892).
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/SARGON N NANO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2443