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
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 11/4/24, 4/13/26 was acknowledged. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Applicant’s claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, or 365(c) is acknowledged. This application discloses and claims only subject matter disclosed in prior application no 17/642907, filed 3/14/22, and names the inventor or at least one joint inventor named in the prior application. Accordingly, this application constitutes a continuation.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement.
Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
Claims 1-17 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-10 of U.S. Patent No. 12161937. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the recited limitations share the same scope.
Instant Application
U.S. Patent No. 12161937
1. An information processing device comprising: first recording circuitry configured to record a game video provided by game software that is running, together with time information; video acquiring circuitry configured to read a video including a game image when an unlock condition becomes satisfied from the first recording circuitry and records the video from the first recording circuitry in a second recording circuitry; and video processing circuitry configured to perform editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
1. An information processing device comprising: first recording circuitry configured to record a game video provided by game software that is running, together with time information; award processing circuitry configured to give a virtual award to a user who is playing a game when an unlock condition of the virtual award is satisfied; video acquiring circuitry configured to read a video including a game image when the unlock condition becomes satisfied from the first recording circuitry and records the video from the first recording circuitry in a second recording circuitry; and video processing circuitry configured to perform editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
9. A video editing method comprising: recording, by first recording circuitry, a game video provided by game software that is running in the first recording circuitry together with time information; recording, by second recording circuitry, a video including a game image in a case that an unlock condition becomes satisfied by reading the video from the first recording circuitry; and performing editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
9. A video editing method comprising: recording, by first record circuitry, a game video provided by game software that is running in the first recording circuitry together with time information; giving a virtual award to a user who is playing a game when an unlock condition of the virtual award is satisfied; recording, in second recording circuitry, a video including a game image when the unlock condition becomes satisfied by reading the video from the first recording circuitry; and performing editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising: by first recording circuitry, recording a game video provided by game software that is running in the first recording circuitry together with time information; by video acquiring circuitry, recording a video including a game image in a case that an unlock condition becomes satisfied in second recording circuitry by reading the video from the first recording circuitry; and by video processing circuitry, performing editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising: by first recording circuitry, recording a game video provided by game software that is running in the first recording circuitry together with time information; by award processing circuitry, giving a virtual award to a user who is playing a game when an unlock condition of the virtual award is satisfied; by video acquiring circuitry, recording a video including a game image when the unlock condition becomes satisfied in second recording circuitry by reading the video from the first recording circuitry; and by video processing circuitry, performing editing processing on the video recorded in the second recording circuitry, wherein the first recording circuitry is a ring buffer and the first recording circuitry is different than the second recording circuitry.
Conclusion
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/JASON T YEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3715
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