DETAILED ACTION
1. Claim 1 is pending in this examination.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
3. 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 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.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
3.1. 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.
3.2. Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor regards as the invention.
3.3. The phrase “substantially as shown and described” renders the scope of the claim unclear because the boundaries of the claimed invention cannot be determined with reasonable certainty.
3.4. Claim recites of “method, machine, manufacture, and/or system” improperly mixed statutory classes. Claim is indefinite in that the claims impermissibly mixed multiples distinct classes of patentable subject matter.
Conclusion
4.1. a). US Patent Application No. 20160179822 to Gupta et al., discloses a system and method for domain name system (DNS) templates are presented. A DNS template database stores DNS templates. A DNS record database stores a plurality of DNS records for a plurality of domain names. A host computer server receives an electronic signal encoding a request to create a DNS template from a user. The request identifies a domain name. The host computer server is configured to access the DNS record database to retrieve a DNS record for the domain name identified in the request, parse the DNS record into a plurality of DNS settings, display the plurality of DNS settings on a user interface for the user, receive, via the user interface, a selection of at least one of the DNS settings by the user, construct a DNS template using the selection of the at least one of the DNS settings, and store the DNS template in the DNS template database.
b). US Patent Application No. 20140006642 to Kothapalli et al., discloses methods and systems are disclosed for quickly providing Whois services to a new top level domain after it is provisioned in a registry. In one embodiment, domain data is received at a first system regarding a top level domain (TLD). The domain data is assigned an authoritative port of a Whois server and is provisioned in a registry database. In certain embodiments, the Whois server provides information relating to domain name registrations of the TLD in the database, according to the authoritative port. The Whois server determines that a Whois query is received at the authoritative port for the queried TLD and responds with the queried information. To the requester, the responses appear as if they are sent from a unique Whois server for each TLD, but the Whois server is actually shared among the TLDs.
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HARUNUR . RASHID
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2497
/HARUNUR RASHID/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2497
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