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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 .
Double Patenting
A rejection based on double patenting of the “same invention” type finds its support in the language of 35 U.S.C. 101 which states that “whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process... may obtain a patent therefor...” (Emphasis added). Thus, the term “same invention,” in this context, means an invention drawn to identical subject matter. See Miller v. Eagle Mfg. Co., 151 U.S. 186 (1894); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Ockert, 245 F.2d 467, 114 USPQ 330 (CCPA 1957).
A statutory type (35 U.S.C. 101) double patenting rejection can be overcome by canceling or amending the claims that are directed to the same invention so they are no longer coextensive in scope. The filing of a terminal disclaimer cannot overcome a double patenting rejection based upon 35 U.S.C. 101.
Claims 1-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as claiming the same invention as that of claims 1, 11, and 20 of prior U.S. Patent No. 12,242,766 respectively. This is a statutory double patenting rejection.
Claim 1 of the current application is the same as claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 12,242,766.
Claim 2 of the current application is the same as claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 12,242,766
Claim 3 of the current application is the same as claim 20 of U.S. Patent No. 12,242,766. However, there are two “and” words that one is missing before the limitation of “selecting which at least one application …” and is added before the limitation of “wherein said second image data”. These two changes do not change the claim limitations. Therefore, the claims are still rejected under statutory double patenting.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-3 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
The prior art reference of Laukkanen (U.S. Pub. No. 2020/0137140) teaches a system for managing data transferred between computing devices and displays (system shown in Fig. 1C):
a first computing device (760) having a first user interface (the device 760 has a user interface 780 as can be seen in Fig. 1C), wherein said first computing device is configured to transform at least one application window of said first user interface into first image data (the computing device transforms application window 225 and 227 into first image data as shown on the display 780),
a second computing device (761) having a second user interface (the device 761 has a user interface 781), wherein said second computing device is configured to transform said at least one application window of said second user interface into second image data (the computing device transforms application window 225 and 227 into second image data that is displayed on the display 781),
a first display (740) having a control board (controller in server 102, Fig. 1D) operably connected to said first computing device and said second computing device (controller of server 102 is connected to the first and second computing devices 760 and 761, Fig. 1C).
The prior art reference of Jo (U.S. Pub. No. 2018/0046424) teaches a display device and command transmission method, wherein multiple display devices are connected to one another in series. In this system the user devices are respectively connected to the corresponding virtual machines and the user devices then send login information to the connection broker through the corresponding virtual machines. After that, the connection broker joins the virtual machines into the group and accesses the resources corresponding to the virtual machines in the group.
The prior art references do not teach the limitation of “a first display having a control board operably connected to said first computing device and said second computing device, wherein a processor of said control board is configured to receive said first image data from said first computing device, wherein a processor of said control board is configured to receive said second image data from said second computing device, wherein said processor of said control board presents said first image data and said second image data in a plurality of display windows of a display user interface of said first display, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to said processor” as mentioned in claim 1.
The prior art references do not teach the limitation of “a first display having a control board and first camera operably connected to said first computing device, wherein a processor of said control board is configured to receive said first image data from said first computing device, wherein said first camera is configured to obtain a plurality of image data of a first user using said first display, first computing device, and first camera, wherein said processor of said control board presents said first image data and said second image data in a plurality of display windows of a display user interface of said first display, a second display having a control board and second camera operably connected to said first computing device, wherein said processor of said control board is configured to receive said second image data from said second computing device, and the processor presents the first image data and the second image data in the plurality of display windows of the display user interface of the second display,” as mentioned in claim 2.
The prior art references do not teach “creating at least one said at least one application window within said first user interface using at least one of patient data and user data of said first user profile, creating at least one said at least one application window within said second user interface using at least one of said patient data and said user data of said second user profile, selecting which at least one application window of said first computing device to transmit to said first display, wherein selecting said at least one application window within said first user interface causes said first computing device to transform said at least one application window into first image data, wherein said first image data is transmitted to said first display to be presented within said display user interface, and selecting which at least one application window of said second computing device to transmit to said first display, wherein selecting said at least one application window within said second user interface causes said second computing device to transform said at least one application window into second image data, wherein said second image data is transmitted to said first display to be presented within said display user interface,” as mentioned in claim 3.
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Yang (U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0078832) teaches a display media real-time rebroadcasting network system.
Strain, Jr. (U.S. Pub. No. 2022/0150575) teaches a synched multimedia nested control device.
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/PEGEMAN KARIMI/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2623