DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Status
Claims 1, 2, 9, 14, and 15 are amended.
No claims are canceled.
No newly added claims.
Claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed in the amendment filed on 4/3/2026 have been fully considered but they are moot in view of new grounds of rejection.
Regarding applicant’s argument (Remark’s page 9-10) regarding Combining Baxter with Yang, that would render Tang’s teachings unsatisfactory for its intended purpose because Baxter intended to localize purchasing functionality to a single device, whereas Tang requires that two devices be used to complete a purchase a product (e.g. a mobile terminal and an external display device).
In response to applicant's arguments against the references individually, one cannot show nonobviousness by attacking references individually where the rejections are based on combinations of references. See In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 208 USPQ 871 (CCPA 1981); In re Merck & Co., 800 F.2d 1091, 231 USPQ 375 (Fed. Cir. 1986). In this case rejection is a combination of Ekselius, Yang and Baxter. Where combination of Ekselius and Yang teaches two device required to be used to complete a purchase a product (i.e. display device and external device) and using encoding information in NFC format that would transmit to external device, while Baxter was only used for teaching feature of “identifying data comprising an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider”.
The examiner recognizes that obviousness may be established by combining or modifying the teachings of the prior art to produce the claimed invention where there is some teaching, suggestion, or motivation to do so found either in the references themselves or in the knowledge generally available to one of ordinary skill in the art. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 5 USPQ2d 1596 (Fed. Cir. 1988), In re Jones, 958 F.2d 347, 21 USPQ2d 1941 (Fed. Cir. 1992), and KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 82 USPQ2d 1385 (2007). In this case, combining teaching of Baxter’s such as, identifying data comprising an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider (Baxter Par. 0064-0065, fig. 6) with Ekselius and Yang would improve the combined system of Ekselius and Yang, to use tokenized payment system to complete the purchase transition in-video shopping system, as disclosed in Baxter par. 0065.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-20 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Independent claims 1 and 14 recites claim limitation, “an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream.” This feature does not find support in the specification.
Upon review of specification, the examiner is unable to find written description support for the above limitations. Examiner found that specification of instant application par. 0029, 0031 discloses, an account identifier associated with user device 108. However, this paragraph 0029, 0031 or any other paragraphs does not suggest, an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream, as claimed in claims 1 and 14. Therefore, there is no sufficient support for the above claimed features in applicant’s specification.
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 1-20 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.
Independent claims 1 and 14 recites claim limitation, “an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream.” It is unclear from use of term “communication” that how a device would communicate with presentation of the video stream. The term “communication” would generally be used for device to device communication not from device to display of content or video stream. Therefore, this claim language makes claim unclear and hence it makes claim indefinite.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 1, 11, 13, and 14 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804).
Regarding claim 1, Ekselius discloses, a method comprising:
identifying one or more devices in a vicinity of a display of a video stream, wherein a product is displayed in the video stream and the video stream is provided by a video stream provider (Par. 0061, live tennis match is being received by broadcast, a dialogue has been established with the retailer server 24 to the extent that the application 20 has detected that the user can purchase product items related to the onscreen content (e.g. the tennis racquet purchase in the above example), and finally the user has been alerted to the fact that purchase of product items is possible for this event because the interaction icon is being presented to the use. Par. 0073, the TV 10 looks for local devices within the WiFi® network 26 and presents discovered devices to the user for selection. The user then nominates a second screen at step 116 by selecting one of the discovered devices and the process continues at step 112 in the nominated second screen. Various options, for example buying a tennis racquet that has been used in the broadcast match, are then displayed to the user who then selects at step 118 details of a retail option of interest, i.e. tennis racquet or product that has been used in broadcast video that is displayed on TV, identifies local devices within WiFi network, i.e. in vicinity or inside the home);
selecting a device of the one or more devices in the vicinity of the display of the video stream (Par. 0073, The user then nominates a second screen at step 116 by selecting one of the discovered devices and the process continues at step 112 in the nominated second screen);
identifying data comprising (a) a product identifier for the product displayed in the video stream (Par. 0054-0055, fig. 2 discloses, user is able to place order for tennis equipment used by the players in the match while watching tennis match, user receives option to purchase and place order, i.e. product identifier for the product displayed in video stream is identified in order to place the order for the product);
causing to transmit the message to the selected device (Par. 0073, The user then nominates a second screen at step 116 by selecting one of the discovered devices and the process continues at step 112 in the nominated second screen. Various options, for example buying a tennis racquet that has been used in the broadcast match, are then displayed to the user who then selects at step 118 details of a retail option of interest i.e. to finish the purchasing process message is transmitted to selected second device);
causing, on the selected device, a confirmation for the transaction (Par. 0073, Finally, the user confirms an order at step 120 which completes the step 38 of placing an order for purchasing a product item).
Ekselius does not disclose, identifying data to cause encoding of a message in a near-field communication (NFC) data exchange format, the message comprising; (b) a provider identifier for a provider associated with the product, (c) an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream, and (d) an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider,
causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network,
receiving authorization of a transaction from the authorization server; and
causing to display, on the selected device, a confirmation for the transaction.
Yang discloses, identifying data to cause encoding of a message in a near-field communication (NFC) data exchange format, the message comprising; (b) identifying, a provider identifier for a provider associated with the product (Par. 0051, encoding the received transaction information in an NFC data exchange format (NDEF); and transmitting the transaction information encoded in the NDEF to the mobile terminal. Par. 0110, transaction information include information about a purchased product, a product code (i.e. product identifier), information about a seller (a seller name, a seller identification (ID) code, contact information of a seller, and an application ID of a seller));
receiving authorization of a transaction from the authorization server (Par. 0037, The payment processing method may further include receiving a payment authorization result on the payment request from the payment server).
causing to display, on the selected device, a confirmation for the transaction (Par. 0057, 0079, receiving a payment authorization result on the selected product; and displaying the payment authorization result).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify Ekselius, by teaching of , identifying data to cause encoding of a message in a near-field communication (NFC) data exchange format, the message comprising identifying, a provider identifier for a provider associated with the product, receiving authorization of a transaction from the authorization server, and causing to display on the selected device, a confirmation for the transaction, as taught by Yang, to prepare the data communication for NFC based transmission and for the user to see the information about seller on screen to visibly confirm that transaction has been complete, this would enhance the user confidence in purchase order showing who is the seller and visual verification that transaction has been completed.
Ekselius in view of Yang does disclose, (c) an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream, and (d) an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider,
causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network.
Rathod discloses, (c) an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream (Par. 0214, fig. 7, discloses user interface where user can see video related to places, Par. 0304, displaying shared profile or user details including name, photos, videos, images, same voice, address, gender, age and one or more types of identities and/or codes of said identified nearby users on user client application 290 of the user client device 130 (200) and enables the user 101 to select one or more users from said displayed list of nearby users and enable to connect to view shared profile and access payment account information or push or send amount for receiving payment, i.e. user selects identities (i.e. account identifier) of user associated with nearby user device 130 from which to get particular amount to make payment, i.e. user select the identifier of user that is associated with another user device that engage in communication with user device which is displaying video content as shown in fig. 7).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify Ekselius in view of Yang, by teaching of an account identifier that identifies the device that will engage in communication with the display of the video stream, as taught by Rathod, to identify based on identifier such as name, photo related to other user to request the approval for payment, identifier makes it easier to identify the other user and its device to select the specific other device from list of devices, as disclosed in Rathod par. 0304.
Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Rathod does not disclose, (d) an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider,
causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network.
Baxter discloses, identifying data comprising an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider (Par. 0064-0065, fig. 6, the viewer device 110B to communicate via API calls with a payment API 142A (i.e. authorization server) of a payment system 140A the payment API 142A may return the card details in a tokenized form to the viewer device 110B Par. 0065, the overlay shopping module 111A may send the tokenized payment information to the shop handler module of the in-video shopping system, which in turn may at step (6) pass the tokenized payment information to the shop API 122A in an additional API call in order to complete the purchase transaction, i.e. tokenized card detail received from authorization server 140A in token form is sent to video stream provider or in-video shopping system 130, that links API 122A to video stream provider 130 in order to complete the purchase).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Rathod, by teaching identifying data comprising an authorized account token linking an authorization server to the video stream provider, as taught by Baxter, to use tokenized payment system to complete the purchase transition in-video shopping system, as disclosed in Baxter par. 0065.
Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Rathod in further view of Baxter does not discloses,
causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network.
Chen discloses, causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network (Par. 0071, sending the NDEF (i.e. encoded data using NFC data exchange format, par. 0029) message using a different communications technology, such as via e-mail as an attachment to the receiving device. The receiving device then doesn't need to be in close proximity to the sending device, and doesn't need to have an NFC antenna. Par. 0074, sending NDEF message transported by other means (i.e. via non-NFC transportation method) without user having to tap the device to an NFC tag).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Rathod, by teaching of encoding and causing to transmit the encoded message to the selected device via a non-NFC network, as taught by Chen, to transmit the information between devices without requiring for devices to remain in close proximity or without having to manually tap on NFC tag as well as allowing to transfer large data via non-NFC network or transportation method, as disclosed in Chen par. 0071, 0074 and 0080-0081.
Regarding claim 11, The method of claim 1,
Ekselius further discloses, wherein the identifying data further comprises continuing to display the video stream without displaying a webpage related to the product (Par. 0054-0055, fi. 2 discloses, user is able to place order for tennis equipment used by the players in the match while watching tennis match, user receives option to purchase and place order, this sequence does not show any displaying a webpage related to product as shown in fig. 5A-5B while match is being continuing to display).
Regarding claim 13, The method of claim 1,
Ekselius further discloses, wherein the identifying the one or more devices in the vicinity of the display of the video stream display comprises one or more of identifying the one or more devices with a camera or identifying the one or more devices connected to the same wireless network as the display (Par. 0073, the TV 10 looks for local devices within the WiFi® network 26 and presents discovered devices to the user for selection).
Regarding claim 14, Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Kim in further view Baxter meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 1.
Claims 2, 4, 15, and 17 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Kida et a. (US 20220116403), in further view of Desineni et al. (US 20170046180).
Regarding claim 2, The method of claim 1, wherein:
Ekselius in view of Yang in further view of Kim in further view Baxter discloses, wherein:
a payload of the encoded message comprises the product identifier, the provider identifier, and an account identifier token associated with the account identifier associated with the device (Yang Par. 0110, transaction information include information about a purchased product, a product code (i.e. product identifier), information about a seller (a seller name, a seller identification (ID) code, contact information of a seller, and an application ID of a seller (i.e. product provider identifier. Baxter, Par. 0065, the overlay shopping module 111A may send the tokenized payment information to the shop handler module of the in-video shopping system, which in turn may at step (6) pass the tokenized payment information to the shop API 122A in an additional API call in order to complete the purchase transaction, i.e. payment account (i.e. identifier of credit card account that is associated with viewing device) token is included in the message sent for further approval of purchase).
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, the encoded message comprises:
a name function set to be indicative of an empty value; and a user activity type set to be indicative of web browsing.
Kida discloses, a name function set to be indicative of an empty value (Kida in par. Par. 0073 discloses similar feature as, empty payload transmitted to telemetry use, an Par. 0086, wireless communication such as NFC, i.e. sending empty payload information in NFC communication).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of an a name function set to be indicative of an empty value, as taught by Kida, to transmit the empty payload data to destination, as disclosed in Kida par. Par. 0073.
Modified Ekselius does not discloses, a user activity type set to be indicative of web browsing.
DESINENI discloses, a user activity type set to be indicative of web browsing (Par. 0018, using an activity object, that a user is currently viewing restaurant results (i.e. search activity browsing web) for a particular cuisine. This allows the operating system 100 to maintain essentially a history of activities performed by the user within App A 104. In addition, the most recent activity engaged in by the user can be shared with another device, allowing a hand-off of user interaction with that activity from one device to another. Par. 0098, the activity creator 304 may create an NSUserActivity object and invoke the becomeCurrent( ) method to provide the activity object to the activity tracker 124. Par. 0101, The NSUserActivity object may include a unique identifier (such as a title) and an activity type, i.e. using NSUserActivity object hand-off user activity such as user performing search (i.e. web browsing) that user can perform on another device).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of a user activity type set to be indicative of web browsing, as taught by DESINENI, for user to resume activity on another device during handoff to another device such a searching activity, as disclosed in DESINENI par. 0018.
Regarding claim 4. The method of claim 2,
Modified Ekselius further discloses, further comprising:
receiving, at the selected device, a selection of a user interface option to share the encoded message with a second device (Ekselius Par. 0073, The user then nominates a second screen at step 116 by selecting one of the discovered devices and the process continues at step 112 in the nominated second screen); and
transmitting the encoded message with the payload to the second device via a messaging service (Chen, Par. 0071, sending the NDEF (i.e. encoded data using NFC data exchange format, par. 0029) message using a different communications technology, such as via e-mail as an attachment to the receiving device).
Regarding claim 15 Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 2.
Regarding claim 17 Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 4.
Claims 3 and 16 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Kida et a. (US 20220116403), in further view of Desineni et al. (US 20170046180), in further view of Lim (US 20250078047).
Regarding claim 3. The method of claim 2,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, wherein contents of the payload are identified by a uniform resource locator (URL).
Lim discloses, wherein contents of the payload are identified by a uniform resource locator (URL) (Par. 0012, an NFC data exchange format (NDEF) message comprising the URL as a payload).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify Modified Ekselius, by teaching of wherein contents of the payload are identified by a uniform resource locator (URL), as taught by Lim, to display the receipt of transaction through a web page or an application page corresponding to the URL without using an e-mail address, a text message, or an execution of a pre-loaded or pre-installed application., as disclosed in Lim par. 0037.
Regarding claim 16 Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 3.
Claims 5, 7, 18 and 20 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Pavlosky et al. (US 11134316).
Regarding claim 5, The method of claim 1,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, wherein the encoded message comprises:
a video clip, wherein the video clip is personalized based on one or more of: stored user preferences for a user account associated with the selected device; products in the video stream; people in the video stream; the provider of the video stream; the provider associated with the product; or inventory levels at the provider associated with the product.
Pavlosky discloses, wherein the encoded message comprises:
a video clip (Col. 19, line 52-60, user can send video clips to other users, friends for them to items in action), wherein the video clip is personalized based on one or more of: stored user preferences for a user account associated with the selected device; products in the video stream; people in the video stream; the provider of the video stream; the provider associated with the product; or inventory levels at the provider associated with the product (Col. 33, line 65-67, col. 34, line 1-7, Video clips are presented of the actress wearing various clothing in video media. Hundreds of clothing objects are presented, with filters such as show title, year, genre, clothing type, color, or price, to remove clothing items the user is less likely to be interested in purchasing. The user selects a filter for dresses and reviews the video media clips and marketing information associated with dresses that the actress has worn in video media. The user adds 3 prospective items to a list and shares the list with a friend user, i.e. video are created (personalized for the user) based on people (i.e. actress in the video stream) wearing the clothing).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of encoded message comprises a video clip, wherein the video clip is personalized based on people in the video stream, as taught by Pavlosky, to send video to other terminal for further viewing of the product that was worn by actress in video, as disclosed in Pavlosky Col. 33, line 65-67, col. 34, line 1-7.
Regarding claim 7, The method of claim 1,
Modified Ekselius does not discloses, wherein the identified data further comprises a second product related to the product, and wherein the product and the second product are chosen based on one or more of:
products in the video stream; other products not in the video stream related to the products in the video stream; products associated with people in the video stream; stored user preferences for a user account associated with the selected device; the provider associated with the product; or inventory levels at the provider associated with the product.
Pavlosky discloses, wherein the identified data further comprises a second product related to the product, and wherein the product and the second product are chosen (Col. 33, 20-37, The woman views shows related to weddings and wedding planning through an online streaming service, a wedding dress the user likes is viewed, she selects the wedding dress and saves the dress to a list of items of interest, Advertisers obtain data regarding the user's wedding interests and wedding dresses in movies, and present additional services such as catering, cake baking, tailoring, and floral designing are also prioritized and presented as clickable items throughout all viewed video media, i.e. second product related to the product (i.e. wedding dress) is identified) based on one or more of:
products in the video stream; other products not in the video stream related to the products in the video stream; products associated with people in the video stream; stored user preferences for a user account associated with the selected device; the provider associated with the product; or inventory levels at the provider associated with the product (Col. 33, 20-37, The woman views shows related to weddings and wedding planning through an online streaming service, a wedding dress the user likes is viewed, she selects the wedding dress and saves the dress to a list of items of interest, Advertisers obtain data regarding the user's wedding interests and wedding dresses in movies, and present additional services such as catering, cake baking, tailoring, and floral designing are also prioritized and presented as clickable items throughout all viewed video media, i.e. second product related to the product (i.e. wedding dress) is identified, i.e. first product and second product are identified based on products in the video stream).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of the identified data further comprises a second product related to the product, and wherein the product and the second product are chosen based on products in the video stream, as taught by Pavlosky, to identity multiple products displayed in video stream that may of interest to the user that is viewing the video, as disclosed in Pavlosky Col. 33, 20-37.
Regarding claim 18, Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 5.
Regarding claim 20, Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 7.
Claims 6 and 19 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Pavlosky et al. (US 11134316), in further view of Frankel al. (US 20200219140).
Regarding claim 6, The method of claim 5,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, further comprising receiving a selection of a user interface option on the selected device to play or pause the video clip on the selected device.
Frankel discloses, further comprising receiving a selection of a user interface option on the selected device to play or pause the video clip on the selected device (Par. 0034, The recipient can then use a media player in the social media application 102 to play the personalized message, i.e. media player being user interface to play the received media clip).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of further comprising receiving a selection of a user interface option on the selected device to play or pause the video clip on the selected device, as taught by Frankel, to allowing recipient to control the playing of received video clip, as disclosed in Frankel Par. 0034.
Regarding claim 19, Modified Ekselius meets claim limitation as set forth in claim 6.
Claim 8 is rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Pavlosky et al. (US 11134316), in further view of Sirbu et al. (US 20160314314).
Regarding claim 8, The method of claim 7,
Modified Ekselius discloses, the product and the second product from the encoded message via a user interface of the selected device (Pavlosky Col. 33, 20-37, The woman views shows related to weddings and wedding planning through an online streaming service, a wedding dress the user likes is viewed, she selects the wedding dress and saves the dress to a list of items of interest, Advertisers obtain data regarding the user's wedding interests and wedding dresses in movies, and present additional services such as catering, cake baking, tailoring, and floral designing are also prioritized and presented as clickable items throughout all viewed video media, The user saves each item of interest, and then reviews the items with close friends and family through the social media layer. Each party is able to view clips of the items, review the marketing data, and offer opinions about the objects and items of interest. i.e. first and second product are sent to recipient device via social media message for review).
Pavlosky discloses, including products in social media message to share with friends but Pavlosky does not disclose, preventing recipients from modifying or removing the received information.
Sirbu discloses, preventing recipients from modifying or removing the received information (Par. 0049, The sharer 202 may select a read access rule as one of the information boundary rules to allow the recipients 206 to read the item 207 while preventing the recipients 206 to edit or delete the item 207).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of preventing recipients from modifying or removing the received information, as taught by Sirbu, to define the boundary rules that does not allow recipient to edit or delete the received content item clip in order to keep the original information of received information intact, as disclosed in Sirbu Par. 0049, applying this rule based prevention of editing or removing of content to features of Pavlosky’s sending of product information in encoded message would help keep provided product information in its original form.
Claim 9 is rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Hirosawa et al. (US 20210112048), in further view of Barbir et al. (US 20250294017).
Regarding claim 9, The method of claim 1,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, wherein the identifying the data comprising the authorized account token linking the authorization server to the provider of the video stream comprises:
linking the provider of the video stream to the authorization server via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect; and
enabling a Single Sign On (SSO) login to the provider of the video stream with a login ID from a cloud wallet service that hosts information associated with the authorization server.
Hirosawa discloses, wherein the identifying the data comprising the authorized account token linking the authorization server to the provider of the video stream comprises:
linking the provider of the video stream to the authorization server via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (Par. 0023, a Web service provided by each service providing apparatus 16 and authentication information for authenticating a user are registered in the management apparatus 12, and the management apparatus 12 realizes single sign-on to each (i.e. providing authorization to service so act as authorization server) Web service by collectively managing accounts for using each Web service, Federation (i.e. linking) is set between the management apparatus 12 and the service providing apparatus 16, and, for example, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect); and. Par. 0028, The Web service is, for example, services that provide video and music on the Internet),
enabling a Single Sign On (SSO) login to the provider of the video stream with a login ID information associated with the authorization server (Par. 0023, a Web service provided by each service providing apparatus 16 and authentication information for authenticating a user are registered in the management apparatus 12, and the management apparatus 12 realizes single sign-on to each Web service by collectively managing accounts for using each Web service, Federation (i.e. linking) is set between the management apparatus 12 and the service providing apparatus 16, and, for example, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect). Par. 0028, The Web service is, for example, services that provide video and music on the Internet. Par. 0079, displays a login screen for inputting authentication information (for example, a user ID and a password) for logging in to the management apparatus 12, i.e. enabling SSO login to the video services with a login ID that is associated with authorization server)).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of linking the provider of the video stream to the authorization server via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect and enabling an SSO login to the provider of the video stream with a login ID information associated with the authorization server, as taught by Hirosawa, to perform authentication coordination such as single sign-on, as disclosed in Hirosawa Par. 0003.
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, a cloud wallet service that hosts information associated with the authorization server.
Barbir discloses, a cloud wallet service that hosts information associated with the authorization server (Par. 0050, the identity broker system 116 may perform single sign-on (SSO) using a subject identifier that was generated from subject identifier authentication. Par. 0051, the identity broker system 116 may generate the subject identifiers and the subject identifier documents, and store them in a wallet system 118 (e.g., a wallet database and/or repositories that is within the cloud computing system 112 and/or managed by the enterprise organization)).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of a cloud wallet service that hosts information associated with the authorization server, as taught by Barbir, to provide user authentication using cloud based wallet system or database that stores credential information of the user as disclosed in Barbir Par. 0002.
Claim 10 is rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Siwik (US 20140310780).
Regarding claim 10, The method of claim 1,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, wherein the encoded message expires and is removed from the selected device after a predetermined time period.
Siwik discloses, wherein the encoded message expires and is removed from the selected device after a predetermined time period (Par. 0021, An MMS message may be encoded at the computing device 105 before being transmitted. Par. 0035, wherein the encoded message expires and is removed from the selected device after a predetermined time period).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of the encoded message expires and is removed from the selected device after a predetermined time period, as taught by Siwik, to provide additional security measures to protect against unauthorized use and viewing of message, as disclosed in Siwik, Par. 0002.
Claim 12 is rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Ekselius et al. Ekselius et al. (US 20150121405) in view of Yang et al. (US 20140058897), in further view of Rathod (US 20200387887), in further view of Baxter et al. (US 20220053233), in further view of Chen et al. (US 20130344804), in further view of Dukhon (US 20220036039).
Regarding claim 12, The method of claim 1,
Modified Ekselius does not disclose, wherein the receiving the authorization of the transaction from the authorization server is based at least in part on biometric identification, and wherein the video stream provider receives biometric identification data and transmits the data to the authorization server.
Dukhon discloses, wherein the receiving the authorization of the transaction from the authorization server is based at least in part on biometric identification, and wherein the video stream provider receives biometric identification data and transmits the data to the authorization server (Par. 0023, fingerprint captured via the RCU 112 can be used for initiating a transaction for the purchase of content, such as video-on-demand (VOD) or pay-per-view (PPV) content from a broadcaster or service provider. Par. 0024, the RCU 112 can send the captured fingerprint information to the multimedia device 105 using an infrared transmission protocol. The multimedia device 105 can then determine whether completion of the transaction will be permitted. According to another exemplary embodiment, the multimedia device 105 can send the received fingerprint information to a remote processing device over the subscriber network 120 or WAN 115, such as a processing server of a content provider for authentication or verification of the user's identity).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of the ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claimed invention to modify modified Ekselius, by teaching of the receiving the authorization of the transaction from the authorization server is based at least in part on biometric identification, and wherein the video stream provider receives biometric identification data and transmits the data to the authorization server, as taught by Dukhon, to use biometric fingerprint to authentication or verification of the user’s identity to permit the completion of transaction, as disclosed in Dukhon, Par. 0024.
Conclusion
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