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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 1-16 are presented for examination.
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, 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 1-3, 6-13, 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Belwal et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2023/0217223 A1 (hereinafter Belwal), and further in view of Hohl et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2021/0152651 A1 (hereinafter Hohl).
As per claims 1, 11, 16, Belwal discloses a provisioning system (108), comprising:
one or more processors (see processor 06 on page 12 section [0127] and Figure 6); and
a memory (see memory 04 on page 12 section [0127] and Figure 6) operatively coupled with the one or more processors, wherein the memory comprises processor-executable instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a provisioning request corresponding to a computing device (102) (see provision requests corresponds to requesting subscriber device ID on page 10 section [0109]) via a provisioning node (204) (see receiving a provisioning request 310 at the provisioning log processing system 302 on page 9 section [0102]);
determine one or more databases (208) associated with the computing device (102) (see provision requests corresponds to requesting subscriber device ID matching criteria on database on page 10 section [0109]) based on the received provisioning request (see step 404 determining whether a plurality of databases being associated with a different wireless communication protocol has already been provisioned to access on page 10 section [109] and Figure 4);
multicast the provisioning request to provision a user associated with the computing device (102) to the determined one or more databases (208) (see provisioning requests 310, 312, and 314 being sent out in parallel to different databases DB1, 2 and 3 in parallel, or multicast requests to databases as claimed on page 9 section [0102]);
Belwal do not disclose expressly: receive a response from the one or more databases (208) based on provisioning identified in the provisioning request; and transmit the response to the provisioning node (204).
Hohl teaches: receive a response from the one or more databases (208) (see data provision component using database on page 2 section [0016] and see multiple database in Figure 1) based on provisioning identified in the provisioning request (see receiving request message 101 and send response message 301 on page 4 section [0042]); and transmit the response to the provisioning node (204) (see sending response message 301 back to requester data retrieval component DQ on page 4 section [0046]).
Belwal and Hohl are analogous art because they are from the same field of endeavor, data provisioning and request system. Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to have database response to provisioning request. The motivation for doing so would have been to use database to resolve provision request for data (see page 1 section [0013]). Therefore, it would have been obvious to combine Belwal and Hohl for the benefit of database response message to obtain the invention as specified in claims 1, 11, 16.
As per claims 2, 12, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are to multicast the provisioning request to the one or more databases (208) via an intermediary node (see message broker MB serves as intermediary node on page 2 section [0020] in Hohl). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claims 3, 13, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the response comprises one of: a success response, a partial success response, and a failure response (see success response in form of a processed data in response message 301 on page 4 section [0042] in Hohl). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claim 6, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the provisioning request comprises at least one of: a transaction identifier (ID), an order ID, uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a service selected by the user of the computing device (102), file name, and file location (se subscriber URL to request service on page 9 section [0106] in Belwal). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claim 7, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are to multicast the provisioning request to the one or more databases (208) over a RESTful interface (see using REST API interface for database query on page 4 section [0047] in Hohl). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claim 8, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more databases (208) comprise information about the user associated with the computing device (102) served by a particular network domain (106) (see databases such as DB2 DB3 for subscriber Mobile Directory Number on page 8 section [0101] each database serving different network domain such as 4G, 5G, and LTE on page 9 section [0106] in Belwal). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claim 9, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the network domain (106) comprises at least one of: 4G network domain, and 5G network domain (see each database serving different network domain such as 4G, 5G, and LTE on page 9 section [0106] in Belwal). The motivation to combine is same as above.
As per claim 10, Belwal and Hohl disclose the provisioning system (108) as claimed in claim 9, wherein the one or more databases (208) comprise at least one of: 4G mobility database (208-1), 4G Internet of Things (IoT) database (208-2), 5G mobility database (208-3), and 5G IoT database (208-4) (see each database serving different network domain such as 4G, 5G, and LTE on page 9 section [0106] in Belwal and see serving Internet of Things IoT communication network on page 2 section [0023] in Hohl). The motivation to combine is same as above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-5, 14-15 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Yiu U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2019/0058508 A1. Provisioning UE using subscription repository (see section [0093]).
Ly et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2021/0211509 A1. IoT repository (see section [0079]).
Mouroulis et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2023/0396997 A1. Data repository Network Function for 5G network (see Abstract).
Iniesta Gonzalez et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2024/0323244 A1. Session Management for User Equipment in a 3GPP network (see Abstract).
Alzahrani et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2020/0257793 A1. Provisioning non-enterprise client device with access to an extranet enterprise domain (see Abstract).
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