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 1-8 are pending in the application under prosecution and have been examined.
The specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors.
The specification should be amended to reflect the status of all related application, whether patented or abandoned. Therefore, applications noted by their serial number and/or attorney docket number should be updated with correct serial number and patent number if patented.
The first instance of all acronyms or abbreviation should be spelled out for clarity, whether or not considered well known in the art (e.g. RFID) (claim 1, Specification) NDEF (Specification) . Please note that these are simply exemplary. Applicant cooperation is requested in response to the current office action to review and identify through the entire disclosure similar deficiency in order to meet such requirement.
In the response to this Office action, the Examiner respectfully requests that support be shown for language added to any original claims on amendment and any new claims. That is, indicate support for newly added claim language by specifically pointing to page(s) and line numbers in the specification and/or drawing figure(s). This will assist the Examiner in prosecuting this application.
37 C.F.R. § 1.83(a) requires the Drawings to illustrate or show all claimed features.
Applicant must clearly point out the patentable novelty that they think the claims present, in view of the state of the art disclosed by the references cited or the objections made, and must also explain how the amendments avoid the references or objections. See 37 C.F.R. § 1.111(c).
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 1-8 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.
Claim 1 recites: and is built to send the stored capability information indicating a memory size larger than the available memory size in the non-volatile memory. It is unclear which of the elements (the pass-through device, or the non-volatile memory, or even the RFID device) is subjected to “is built to send …”
Claims 2-8 are rejected because of their dependency upon the rejected base claim.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 20220173772 A1 (LABYRE) teaching contactless interface being Radio Frequency Identification , RFID Radio Identification transponder including contactless interface and a wired interface and being configured to communicate with said reader, transponder comprising pass-through means configured to implement a pass-through function including a contactless transponder (being RFID Radio Frequency Identification) including a contactless interface and a transponder wired interface being configured to communicate with a contactless reader.
US 20150017914 A1 (DUA) media player device employs the use of integrated Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to exchange communication settings, media capability, and other parameters with an external device that also has integrated RFID technology. The automatic exchange of settings and other information via a proximity-based RFID data exchange allows a media player to quickly establish a secure communication link with another device via a commonly supported wireless protocol.
T. Flor, W. Niess and G. Vogler, "RFID: the integration of contactless identification technology and mobile computing," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications, 2003. ConTEL 2003., Zagreb, Croatia, 2003, pp. 619-623.
J. Jantunen, S. Boldyrev, M. Voutilainen, E. Confalonieri and J. Arponen, "Dual-Interface Memory for RF Memory Tag Systems," 2012 4th IEEE International Memory Workshop, Milan, Italy, 2012, pp. 1-4.
TW 202203618 A (KACHARE et al) teaching systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing storage-efficient sensors including: using a discovery service to determine one or more parameters associated with a storage device via a network over a medium; transmitting data from at least one sensor to a storage device via the network over the medium; processing the data and storing at least a portion of the data at the storage device; and transmitting at least a second portion of the data via the network to at least one host.
US 20220066964 & US 12166540 B2 (LABYRE) teaching apparatus including a contactless transponder including a contactless interface and a wired interface, wherein the contactless transponder is configured to communicate with a contactless reader according to a contactless protocol through the contactless interface, a wired communication bus connected to the wired interface and at least one module connected to the bus, wherein the transponder is configured so that the reader is a master on the bus when the reader and the transponder communicate.
WO 2013189969 A1 (GIMENO et al) teaching method implemented by an electronic device comprising a near field communication (NFC) system. The system comprises an NFC contactless front end, a plurality of secure element interfaces to which a plurality of secure elements are connected, and a processing unit adapted to control the NFC contactless front end and the plurality of secure elements through the secure element interfaces. The method comprises sending (S10) an initialization command to all the secure elements through the secure element interfaces, upon exposure of the NFC contactless front end to an NFC reader.
US 20120178365 A1 (KATZ et al) teaching server module configured to provide non-volatile storage service in response to a command protocol, and a near field communication (NFC) controller coupled to the server module via a single signal line for command passing, the NFC controller being configured to pass commands conforming to the command protocol to the server module to request non-volatile storage service, where an embedded processor is coupled to a volatile memory circuit.
US 20110169609 A1 (ZIEGLER) teaching size part for separable application on an apparatus, wherein the size part includes a first identification element based on RFID technology for the identification of the size part, and wherein the identification element includes a transmission device for the wireless transmission of a piece of information clearly identifying the identification element.
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/PIERRE MICHEL BATAILLE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2138