CTNF 19/062,987 CTNF 90785 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. This Office action is in response to communications filed on 2/25/2025. Claims 1-20 are pending. DETAILED ACTION Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101 07-04-01 AIA 07-04 35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. Claims 11-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claims fail to place the invention squarely within one statutory class of invention. Based on the broadest reasonable interpretation of the term "computer-readable storage medium", the term is not limited to non-transitory computer readable storage media, and may include transitory media. The transitory media generally stores/encodes/transmits data/information in form of signals. As such, the claim is drawn to a signal per se. Signal per se does not appear to be a process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter. [Claims that recite nothing but the physical characteristics of a form of energy, such as frequency, voltage or the strength of a magnetic field, define energy or magnetism, per se, and as such are nonstatutory natural phenomena. O'Reilly, 56 U. S. (15 How.) at 112-14. See also In re Nuijten. Docket no. 2006-1371 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 20, 2007)(slip. Op. at 18): "A propagating signal is not a process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter"] The examiner notes that paragraph [0173] of the specification, as filed, recites that “computer-readable storage media does not include computer-readable communication media” and that “computer-readable communication media may include computer- readable instructions, program modules, or other data transmitted within a data signal, such as a carrier wave, or other transmission” (underline for emphasis). However, the term “may” indicates that in some cases “computer-readable communication media” may not include “computer- readable instructions, program modules, or other data transmitted within a data signal, such as a carrier wave, or other transmission.” If “computer-readable communication media” in some occasions does not include “computer-readable instructions, program modules, or other data transmitted within a data signal, such as a carrier wave, or other transmission” then the term “computer-readable storage media,” as claimed, may in some occasion include “computer-readable instructions, program modules, or other data transmitted within a data signal, such as a carrier wave, or other transmission.” As such, the claims are non-statutory. Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-07 AIA 07-97 12-51-07 Claim s 1-10 and 17-20 are allowed. REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art of record fails to teach, neither singly nor in combination, the claimed limitations of “providing, by the first device, the token to the second device and to the wireless access device; instructing, by the first device, the second device to utilize the token to connect to the network of the wireless access device; and configuring, by the first device, the wireless access device to provide the connection to the network to the second device in accordance with use of the token by the second device” as recited in claim 1 and similarly stated in claim(s) 11 and 17. These limitations, in conjunction with other limitations in the independent claim(s), are not specifically disclosed or remotely suggested in the prior art of record. A review of claim(s) 1-10 and 17-20 indicates claim(s) 1-10 and 17-20 are allowable over the prior art of record. Claims 11-16 would be allowable by overcoming all 35 USC 101 rejections set forth above. The closest prior art of record includes: US 20190149987 A1, which discloses "the first device may determine that a second device needs to be setup. This determination can be made in various ways, as described below with respect to various embodiments. In response to determining that the second device needs to be setup, the first device may send a request via a wireless access point (WAP) and over a WAN to a remote system requesting a temporary authentication token. The first device may use the network credentials maintained in local memory of the first device to access the LAN, which allows the first device to send the request to the remote system. Furthermore, because the first device is already registered with the user account (and thereby authorized to communicate with the remote system), the first device may receive the temporary authentication token from the remote system. The first device (now in possession of the temporary authentication token) may retrieve the network credentials from local memory of the first device, and the first device may send the temporary authentication token and the network credentials for receipt by the second device so that the second device can use the token and the network credentials to setup the second device. The temporary authentication token and the network credentials can be sent in various ways, as described below with respect to various embodiments. It is to be appreciated that, because the second device may not be able to access the LAN before it comes into possession of the network credentials, the transmission of the temporary authentication token and the network credentials from the first device to the second device occurs using an alternative technique that does not include transmission over the LAN" (¶[0018]). US 20150223068 A1, which discloses "guest device 220 may initiate a request 225 for access to the wireless network to which the network access point 210 may control access. The request 225 may include a request made in a text message to the user of the network administrator device 230, or may be made in a conversation established using guest device 220 and the network administrator device 230. The request may be part of a pre-arranged agreement to provide access made between the user of the guest device 220 and the user of the network administrator device 230" (¶[0049]), "Responsive to the request 225, the network administrator device 230 may provide information 235, such as contact information, to the network access point 210. The information 235 may function as a virtual device identifier that enables the network access point 210 to create an entry in an access list in order to establish access for the guest device 220 to the wireless network without necessarily knowing the unique device identifier of the guest device 220. The information 235 may also be used to generate a virtual device identifier. The virtual device identifier may be used during the first access attempt before the unique identifier has been obtained and bound with a virtual access point password" (¶[0050]), and "The virtual access point identifier and the virtual access point password may be forwarded to the guest device 220, so that the guest device 220 may gain access to the wireless network when the forwarded virtual access point identifier and virtual access point password values are entered" (¶[0051]). US 7548744 B2, which discloses "detecting a wireless access point with a vehicle telematics units wherein the vehicle telematics unit is located in a vehicle that can be driven in and out of radio range of the wireless access point; (b) requesting authentication information regarding the wireless access point from a call center, wherein the request is made by the vehicle telematics unit over a first secure communication channel established between the vehicle telematics unit and the call center; (c) providing authentication information regarding the wireless access point to the vehicle telematics unit, wherein the information is provided by the call center over the first secure communication channel; (d) providing authentication information regarding the vehicle telematics unit to the wireless access point, wherein the information is provided by the call center over a second secure communication channel established between the call center and the wireless access point, and; (e) utilizing both the authentication information regarding the vehicle telematics unit and that regarding the wireless access point to establish a third secure communication channel between the vehicle telematics unit and the wireless access point" (claim 1). US 20180316562 A1, which discloses "A wireless device can connect to a wireless network to perform communications with other endpoints. In some cases, before a wireless device can utilize a wireless network to perform communications, the wireless device is first provisioned with information to allow the wireless device to connect to the wireless network. In some examples, the provisioning can include providing the wireless device with credentials that can be used by the wireless device to connect to the wireless network" (¶[0001]). Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to BORIS D GRIJALVA LOBOS whose telephone number is (571)272-0767. The examiner can normally be reached M-F 10:30AM to 6:30PM EST. Examiner interviews are available via telephone, in-person, and video conferencing using a USPTO supplied web-based collaboration tool. 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If you would like assistance from a USPTO Customer Service Representative, call 800-786-9199 (IN USA OR CANADA) or 571-272-1000. /BORIS D GRIJALVA LOBOS/Primary Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2446 Application/Control Number: 19/062,987 Page 2 Art Unit: 2446 Application/Control Number: 19/062,987 Page 3 Art Unit: 2446
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