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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 .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 41-55 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Claim 41 and its dependents are allowed because the closest prior art either alone or in combination, fail to anticipate or render obvious, the claimed limitations of “presenting, with the touchscreen display of the mobile computing device responsive to having received the user selection of the selected user contact, a second user interface screen that comprises a contact profile for the selected user contact, including: (i) a name of the selected user contact; (ii) a first selectable interface element that is configured to initiate a call with the selected user contact; (iii) a second selectable interface element that is configured to initiate an in person recording; and (iv) a listing of multiple completed activities” in combination with “recording, by the mobile computing device responsive to having received the user selection of the second selectable interface element, audio that is captured by a microphone of the mobile computing device, to form the in-person recording; and updating, with the touchscreen display of the mobile computing device, the listing of the multiple completed activities that is presented as part of the second user interface screen, to add a completed activity representing the in-person recording” along with all other limitations in the claims as defined by Applicant.
The prior art discloses presenting, with a touchscreen display of a mobile computing device, a first user interface screen that comprises a listing of multiple user contacts, the listing of the multiple user contacts including a text name for each user contact of the multiple user contacts but does not teach or suggest updating, with the touchscreen display of the mobile computing device, the listing of the multiple completed activities that is presented as part of the second user interface screen, to add a completed activity representing the in-person recording.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
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.
Claim 56 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because claim 56 recites “One or more computer-readable devices …”. Applicant’s current specification discloses “the terms machine-readable medium and computer-readable medium refer to any computer program product, apparatus and/or device (e.g., magnetic discs, optical disks, memory, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)) used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor, including a machine-readable medium that receives machine instructions as a machine-readable signal. The term machine-readable signal refers to any signal used to provide machine instructions and/or data to a programmable processor.” Therefore, claim 56 does not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Felman (US Patent Application, Pub. No.: US 2019/0199761 A1) teaches a system and method for sharing personal information. Triverio et al. (US Patent Application, Pub. No.: US 2022/0365643 A1) teach a real-time communication user interface.
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/THJUAN K ADDY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2693
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