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 .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 3 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Claim 4 is held allowable since it depends from allowable claim 3.
Claim 10 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim 11 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim 16 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Claims 17 and 21 are held allowable since it depends from allowable claim 16.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, 5-8, 13-15 and 18-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Hsu et al. (Pub No US 2011/0197129). Hereinafter, referenced as Hsu.
Regarding claim 1, Hsu discloses an interaction method, comprising:
receiving a first trigger operation (e.g. add to favorites 510), wherein the first trigger operation is associated with at least one piece of media content that is media content on which a current user has performed a first interactive operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; favorites key 163 may be pressed so as to add the content being viewed to the favorites list 461 in step 510);
and adding the at least one piece of media content to a media content collection (e.g. favorite list folder) in response to the first trigger operation, wherein the media content collection is a collection of at least part of media content on which the current user has performed a second interactive operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; select one of the favorite lists 512 amongst the plurality of favorite lists 62; paragraph [0063] figure 9).
Regarding claim 2, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 1; moreover, Hsu discloses that the second interactive operation comprises a favorite operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; select one of the favorite lists 512 amongst the plurality of favorite lists 62; paragraph [0063] figure 9),
and the adding the at least one piece of media content to the media content collection comprises: adding first media content displayed on a media content display page to a favorites folder corresponding to the first trigger operation, wherein the favorites folder is displayed on a favorites page (e.g. Figure 9; favorite lists 62) of the current user, and the media content display page is used to display media content added to the favorites page (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; select one of the favorite lists 512 amongst the plurality of favorite lists 62; paragraph [0063] figure 9).
Regarding claim 5, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 2; moreover, Hsu discloses that the adding the at least one piece of media content to the media content collection (e.g. favorite list) comprises: adding second media content selected by the current user to the media content collection, wherein the second media content is media content on which the current user has performed the first interactive operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] [0063] figures 7-9; add additional files to the favorite folders).
Regarding claim 6, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 5; moreover, Hsu discloses that the second interactive operation comprises a favorite operation, and the adding second media content selected by the current user to the media content collection comprises: adding the second media content selected by the current user to a favorites page of the current user, wherein the second media content is not added to a favorites folder; or adding the second media content selected by the current user to the favorites folder corresponding to the first trigger operation, wherein the favorites folder is displayed on the favorites page of the current user (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; select one of the favorite lists 512 amongst the plurality of favorite lists 62; paragraph [0063] figure 9).
Regarding claim 7, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 6; moreover, Hsu discloses that the adding the second media content selected by the current user to the favorites folder corresponding to the first trigger operation comprises: adding the second media content selected by the current user to the favorites folder corresponding to the first trigger operation, and displaying the favorites folder corresponding to the first trigger operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; add selected file to the specified my favorite list 514 amongst the plurality of favorite lists; paragraph [0063] figure 9).
Regarding claim 8, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 5; moreover, Hsu discloses that before the receiving the first trigger operation (Figure 7; e.g. add to favorite 510), the method further comprises: displaying a selection interface, and displaying, in the selection interface, first media content information of at least part of media content on which the current user has performed the first interactive operation, wherein the first media content information is used to trigger or cancel selection of the respective media content (Paragraphs [0060]-[0063] figure 7; select media file to be played 509).
Regarding claim 13, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 13; therefore, claim 13 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 1.
Regarding claim 14, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 14; therefore, claim 14 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 1.
Regarding claim 15, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 15; therefore, claim 15 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 2.
Regarding claim 18, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 18; therefore, claim 18 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 5.
Regarding claim 19, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 19; therefore, claim 19 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 6.
Regarding claim 20, Hsu discloses all the limitations of claim 20; therefore, claim 20 is rejected for the same reasons stated in claim 7.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim 9 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Hsu in view of Sirpal et al. (Pub No US 2015/0189390). Hereinafter, referenced as Sirpal.
Regarding claim 9, Hsu discloses the method according to claim 8; moreover, Hsu discloses that the second interactive operation comprises a favorite operation (e.g. Figure 7; e.g. add to favorite 510), and a selection complete control is further displayed in the selection interface, wherein the selection complete control is used to perform the first trigger operation or trigger display of a predetermined panel, wherein the predetermined panel comprises at least one of a favorites folder panel of the current user, and the predetermined panel is used to perform the first trigger operation (Paragraphs [0060] [0061] figures 7-9; select one of the favorite lists 512 amongst the plurality of favorite lists 62; paragraph [0063] figure 9).
However, it is noted that Hsu is silent to explicitly disclose a favorites folder creation panel.
Nevertheless, in a similar field of endeavor Sirpal discloses a favorites folder creation panel (Paragraphs [0150] [0189]; a favorite folders panel may include the list of favorite content and an option to add a folder to the favorites folder similar to a PC).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify Hsu by specifically providing the elements mentioned above, as taught by Sirpal, for the predictable result of allowing the user to organize their favorite content in a multiple folders that they have created in order to allow the user to easily find their tagged favorite content.
Conclusion
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JUNIOR O. MENDOZA
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2424
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