DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 01/30/2025. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
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 an abstract idea without significantly more.
Regarding independent claims 1, 14, and 18, the claims recite receiving, at a blockchain address application and from a client application, a request message comprising a payload for signature by a blockchain address associated with the blockchain address application and indicating requested user information to be provided to a collection endpoint associated with the client application; broadcasting, after receiving a user input executing the signature of the payload, one or more messages to a blockchain network and configured to execute an operation on the blockchain network; and transmitting, to the client application and using the collection endpoint, a response message comprising the requested user information and an identifier of the operation executed on the blockchain network. The limitations of receiving, at a blockchain address application and from a client application, a request message comprising a payload for signature by a blockchain address associated with the blockchain address application and indicating requested user information to be provided to a collection endpoint associated with the client application; broadcasting, after receiving a user input executing the signature of the payload, one or more messages to a blockchain network and configured to execute an operation on the blockchain network; and transmitting, to the client application and using the collection endpoint, a response message comprising the requested user information and an identifier of the operation executed on the blockchain network, as drafted is a process that, under its broadest reasonable interpretation, covers performance of the limitation in the mind. If a claim limitation, under its broadest reasonable interpretation, covers performance of the limitation in the mind but for recitation of generic computer components, then it falls within the “ Mental Processes” grouping of abstract ideas. Therefore, the claims recite an abstract idea.
This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. In particular, the claim only recites one additional element – using a processor to perform the receiving, broadcasting, and transmitting steps. The processor in the steps is recited at a high-level of generality (i.e., as a generic processor performing a generic computer function of broadcasting one or messages to a blockchain network) such that it amounts no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using a generic computer component. Accordingly, this additional element does not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application because it does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea. The claim is directed to an abstract idea.
The claim does not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration of the abstract idea into a practical application, the additional element of using a processor to perform the receiving, broadcasting, and transmitting steps that amounts to no more than mere instructions to apply the exception using a generic computer component. Mere instructions to apply an exception using a generic computer component cannot provide an inventive concept. Therefore, the claims 1-20 are not patent eligible.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 101, set forth in this Office action.
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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/BAOTRAN N TO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2435
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