Detailed Action
This is a Non-final Office action in response to communications received on 1/16/2025. Claims 3, 6, 7, 12, 20 and 21 were amended via preliminary amendment. Claims 16-19 were canceled via preliminary amendment. Claims 1-15 and 20-21 are pending and are examined.
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 .
Drawings
The drawings, filed 1/16/2025, are acknowledged.
Preliminary Amendments
The Preliminary Amendments, filed 1/16/2025, are acknowledged.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 3, 4 and 13-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 3, the claim recites “the second private key” and “the fourth public key”, which lack antecedent basis.
Regarding claim 4, the claim recites “the fourth private key”, which lack antecedent basis.
Regarding claim 13, the claim recites “”in response to a first public key from terminal device”, which lacks antecedent basis. Claims 14-15 depend from claim 13 and are similarly rejected.
Prior Art Considered But Not Relied Upon
Chu (US 11165767 B2) which teaches receiving a group joining request that is sent by a first terminal and that is used for joining a trusted group, generating, by a server, a first certificate for the first terminal based on a first version number, and sending them to the first terminal
Khatri (US 20240031171 A1) which teaches verifying a digital certificate in addition to requesting that a user prove possession of a private user or credential encryption key corresponding to the public key in the digital certificate.
Conclusion
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/BLAKE I NARRAMORE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2438
