CTNF 18/934,006 CTNF 83586 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia 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 § 102 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (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. 07-15 AIA Claim (s) 1-3, 8-12, 17, 18, and 19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102( a)(1 ) as being anticipated by (U.S. PGPUB 2021/0086089) . Re claims 1, 10, and 19: Pardeshi discloses a method for modifying training content based on player performance, the method comprising: storing information in memory regarding a player of one or more game titles, the information indicating a skill level for each of a plurality of different gameplay skill types (see paragraph [0084]: “In at least one embodiment, an index is built for a player that includes gameplay or skill information for each category, which can be used to generate individual skill scores in specific categories, as well as an overall skill score.” Thus, different gameplay skill types are presented here by skill scores for different specific categories); identifying training content for the player based on the indicated skill level for the different gameplay skill types (see paragraph [0085, 0086, 0087, 0090]: “In at least one embodiment, tips can be based upon current aspects of a game, such as a location on a map, active weapon, and health level, and appropriate suggestions for a player of that skill level determined and presented a current skill level or benchmarking;” Depending on in game events, the system determines the specific player skill level for a current in game situation, and identifies tips and suggestion templates, for providing suggestion information to the user); tracking a trigger event associated with the identified training content (0085-0090: identified game events where player recommendations maybe useful, are tracked within the game to determine the identified trigger events for determining and providing tips to the player based on the current game events); receiving activity data sent over a communication network from a user device of the player, the received activity data regarding player performance relative to the trigger event (see paragraph [0085-0090]); and modifying the training content based on the player performance, wherein a presentation of the modified training content is provided to one or more user devices of the player (see paragraph [0090]: an example of the limitation demonstrated in the system include “In at least one embodiment, a given tip may only be provided with a maximum frequency or number of occurrences, and a skill that has not improved after a number of these tips might cause a different tip, or type of tip, to be generated and provided in order to help improve that particular skill for that player.”). Re claims 2 and 11: Pardeshi discloses with respect to the method of claim 1, wherein the activity data regarding player performance indicates one or more updated skill levels for one or more of the different gameplay skill type (see paragraph [0091]: “. In at least one embodiment, a player skill index is generated 808, or updated, based upon player data for these skill categories, such as data and metadata for detected actions that fall within each of these categories, and associated skill values determined for these categories based at least in part upon this data.”). Re claims 3 and 12: Pardeshi discloses with respect to the method of claim 1, wherein modifying the training content includes adding one or more of a recommendation, controller mapping, controller input sequences, location map, location information, objective information, and supplementary information to the training content (see paragraph [0090]: an example of the limitation demonstrated in the system include “In at least one embodiment, a given tip may only be provided with a maximum frequency or number of occurrences, and a skill that has not improved after a number of these tips might cause a different tip, or type of tip, to be generated and provided in order to help improve that particular skill for that player.”). Re claims 8 and 17: Pardeshi discloses with respect to the method of claim 1, further comprising automatically providing the modified training content to a secondary user device among the user devices of the player during gameplay concurrent with the trigger event (see paragraph [0097]). Re claim 9 and 18: Pardeshi discloses with respect to the method of claim 1, wherein the training content includes a set of training activities, and wherein modifying the training content includes modifying one or more of the training activities in the set (see paragraph [0090]: the training content includes a set of training activities, including a set of recommendations, wherein the content is further modified to include additional tips if the previous ones do not work, “In at least one embodiment, a given tip may only be provided with a maximum frequency or number of occurrences, and a skill that has not improved after a number of these tips might cause a different tip, or type of tip, to be generated and provided in order to help improve that particular skill for that player.”) . Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 07-20-aia AIA 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, 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. 07-21-aia AIA Claim (s) 4, 5, 6, 7, and 13-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Pardashi . Re claim 4, 5, 6, 7, and 13-16. Pardashi fails to specifically disclose under a 102 analysis the method of claim 1, wherein modifying the training content includes modifying the trigger event, and wherein modifying the trigger event includes modifying a threshold associated with the trigger events, and wherein modifying the trigger event includes disabling the trigger event and wherein modifying the trigger event includes adding a new trigger event. However, Pardashi discloses a player index that includes storage for training content including tips and recommendation associated with the player, including reoccurring and past tips (see [0085, 0086, 0087, 0090]). Pardashi also discloses that the adaptive agent makes adjustments to aid in the improvement of the player (see paragraph [0090]). One of ordinary skill in the art would understand that as a player improves, previous data is no longer needed to present to the player, such as beginner level tips no longer being necessary when a player is at the advanced level. Thus, triggering events for players will need to be modified, disabled/removed, and added from those that trigger tips for lesser skilled players to higher skill players. Additionally, the threshold for a triggering event occurring will be lower as the player becomes more skilled and related tips to the triggering event are no longer needed. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was filed, to modify the adaptive agent of Pardashi to modify the triggering event information according to user skill progression, because the tips and recommendations are not as necessary as they were in the past, and the storage space can be used for new learned tips with their associated triggering events . Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Krishnamurthy (U.S. PGPUB 2017/0282063) discloses an artificial intelligence agent to improve a player’s skills . 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