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 action is in response to an application filed November 18, 2024. Claims 1-20 are pending in this application.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on November 18, 2024 and April 9, 2025 are acknowledged. The submissions are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Double Patenting
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Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of patent document (US 11,736,293 B1). Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the claims are directed to the same subject matter of providing access to content for a web component on a web application of a customer device. A side-by-side analysis of the first independent claim(s) of the instant application and patent document have been included below. The bolded portions are portions which are almost identical to one another. The non-bolded portions are related to subject matter which is obvious, and do not further define over the subject matter of the U.S. patent document. Therefore, the subject matter of both claim sets are not distinct from one another.
Here is the following side-by-side analysis of the first independent claim in each application:
Instant Application ‘456
1. A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a first server to a second server, a request to provide access to content for a first web component on a web application of a customer device;
receiving, by the first server from the second server, a first response comprising (i) an identifier to bind the first web component with a second web component to permit access to the content for the first web component on the web application of the customer device and (ii) content for the first web component, the identifier generated in response to a validation of the request;
generating, by the first server, a second response comprising (i) the identifier, (ii) the content for the first web component, and (iii) a token for communications associated with the first web component;
transmitting, by the first server to the customer device, the second response to cause the customer device to present the content for the first web component bound with the second web component using the identifier; and
communicating, by the first server between the customer device and the second server, data associated with the content presented on the first web component bound with the second web component.
Patent Document ‘293
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first server from a second server, a request to provide access to content for a first web component on a web application of a customer device;
determining, by the first server, whether to issue an identifier corresponding to the first web component to the customer device responsive to a validation of the request;
generating, by the first server responsive to the determination, the identifier to bind the first web component with a second web component to permit access to the content for the first web component on the web application of the customer device, wherein the second web component is configured to receive content of the first web component;
transmitting, by the first server to the second server, a response including the identifier and the content; and
communicating, by the first server via the second server, data associated with a user interaction with the content presented on the first web component bound with the second web component using the identifier.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 are allowed over available prior art(s) and/or any combinations of available prior arts, but are rejected under Double Patenting.
As allowable subject matter has been indicated, applicant's reply must either comply with all formal requirements or specifically traverse each requirement not complied with. See 37 CFR 1.111(b) and MPEP § 707.07(a).
REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The Examiner has not found any reasonable prior art(s) nor combination of prior art(s) which teach the feature of ‘generating, by the first server, a second response comprising (i) the identifier, (ii) the content for the first web component, and (iii) a token for communications associated with the first web component; transmitting, by the first server to the customer device, the second response to cause the customer device to present the content for the first web component bound with the second web component using the identifier’.
Conclusion
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/ESTHER B. HENDERSON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2458
March 20, 2026