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 .
On 06/02/2026 a Non-Final office action was mailed to the Applicant. However, the current Application has a submission under 35 U.S.C. 371 with preliminary amendments. Inadvertently a wrong set of claims was examined because of mislabeling of filing claims. Accordingly, this action has been made NON-FINAL. Therefore, the period for response has been restarted.
1. This action is responsive to the communication filed on May 01, 2025. At this time, claim 1 is cancelled. Claims 3-21 are pending and addressed below.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
Double Patenting
2. The statutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the "right to exclude" granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A statutory obviousness-type double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Omum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a statutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement.
Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
Claims 2, 9 and 16 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1, 8 and 15 of US Patent number 12229284. The conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the current application contains claims that are narrower in scope than the claims of the patent number 12229284 and are anticipated by the claims 1, 8 and 15.
This is a non-provisional double patenting rejection.
Claims Comparison Table
Application Number 19/054,661
Patent Number 12229284
2. A method comprising: receiving, at a management server from a client device, a state sample that represents a snapshot of a state of the client device, wherein the state sample comprises a device identifier that
uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that
uniquely identifies a user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device;
determining a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier;
determining a user channel identifier associated with a user account of the user identified by the user identifier; identifying a union of a device channel associated with the device channel identifier and a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and storing the state sample with the identified union of the device channel and the user channel and a time stamp that indicates a time when the state sample was obtained, in a storage device.
8. A method, comprising: receiving a device check-in from a client device, the device check-in comprising a device identifier that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device; obtaining a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier; obtaining a user channel identifier associated with both the user identifier and the device identifier; selecting a first set of entitlements from a device channel associated with the device channel identifier; selecting a second set of entitlements from a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and providing the first set of entitlements and the second set of entitlements to the client device in response to the device check-in.
9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a set of instructions executed by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising:
receiving, at a management server from a client device, a state sample that represents a
snapshot of a state of the client device, wherein the state sample comprises a device identifier that
uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that
uniquely identifies a user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device;
determining a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier;
determining a user channel identifier associated with a user account of the user identified
by the user identifier;
identifying a union of a device channel associated with the device channel identifier and a
user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and storing the state sample with the identified union of the device channel and the user channel and a time stamp that indicates a time when the state sample was obtained, in a storage device.
15. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium, comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to at least: receive a device check-in from a client device, the device check-in comprising a device identifier that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device; obtain a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier; obtain a user channel identifier associated with both the user identifier and the device identifier; select a first set of entitlements from a device channel associated with the device channel identifier; select a second set of entitlements from a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and provide the first set of entitlements and the second set of entitlements to the client device in response to the device check-in.
16. A computer system comprising:
one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, causes the one or more processors to:
receive, at a management server from a client device, a state sample that represents
a snapshot of a state of the client device, wherein the state sample comprises a device identifier
that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier
that uniquely identifies a user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device;
determine a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier;
determine a user channel identifier associated with a user account of the user identified by the user identifier;
identify a union of a device channel associated with the device channel identifier
and a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and store the state sample with the identified union of the device channel and the user channel and a time stamp that indicates a time when the state sample was obtained, in a storage device.
1. A system, comprising: a computing device comprising a processor and a memory; and machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least: receive a device check-in from a client device, the device check-in comprising a device identifier that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device; obtain a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier; obtain a user channel identifier associated with both the user identifier and the device identifier; select a first set of entitlements from a device channel associated with the device channel identifier; select a second set of entitlements from a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and provide the first set of entitlements and the second set of entitlements to the client device in response to the device check-in.
Allowable Subject Matter
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: As to independent claims 2, 9 and 16, Chiussi; Fabio M., US 8693987 B2 discloses receiving, at a management server from a client device, a state sample that represents a snapshot of a state of the client device, wherein the state sample comprises a device identifier that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that uniquely identifies a user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device.
The prior art does not explicitly disclose determining a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier; determining a user channel identifier associated with a user account of the user identified by the user identifier; identifying a union of a device channel associated with the device channel identifier and a user channel associated with the user channel identifier; and storing the state sample with the identified union of the device channel and the user channel and a time stamp that indicates a time when the state sample was obtained, in a storage device.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Manolarakis; Christos, US 10616782 B2, title “ Cross-channel User Tracking Systems, Methods And Devices.“
Chen; Jack, US 8131875 B1, title “ Device Profile Assignment Based On Device Capabilities . “
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Date: 8/28/2026
/JOSNEL JEUDY/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2438
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