DETAILED ACTION
Summary
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claims 1-20 are currently pending.
Claim Objections
Claims 3, 5, 8, 14, 16, and 18 are objected to because of the following informalities:
In claim 3, line 4, please amend “the plurality of RFID tags” to recite “the plurality of reference RFID tags”;
In claim 5, line 2, please amend “whether dwell time period is expired” to recite “whether a dwell time period is expired”;
In claim 8, line 1, please amend “the presence detector comprises at least one of infrared (IR) sensor” to recite “the presence detector comprises at least one of an infrared (IR) sensor”;
In claim 14, line 2, please amend “the plurality of RFID tags” to recite “the plurality of reference RFID tags”;
In claim 16, lines 2-3, please amend “whether dwell time period is expired” to recite “whether a dwell time period is expired”;
In claim 18, line 3, please amend “the presence detector comprises at least one of infrared (IR) sensor” to recite “the presence detector comprises at least one of an infrared (IR) sensor”.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-2 and 11-12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) and 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by SOLOMON et al, US 10,438,033.
Re claims 1-2 and 11-12:
SOLOMON teaches a system, comprising:
An RFID reader (16) (column 4, lines 4-52; Figure 2);
A presence detector communicatively coupled with the RFID reader (i.e., entranceway entry/exit sensors 20 and door sensor 22 (column 4, lines 4-15; Figures 1-2)); and
At least one processor operationally coupled to the RFID reader and the presence detector (column 1, lines 54-67; column 2, lines 1-3), wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
Determine, via the RFID reader, whether a RFID tag and RFID tag read time are identified (column 12, lines 7-35; Figure 8A);
Determine, via the presence detector, a last movement time period associated with the RFID tag on identifying the RFID tag and the RFID tag read time, the last movement time period comprising a last read time of the RFID tag (i.e., a last read time of the tag is determined when movement is detected by sensors 20/22 (column 12, lines 7-35; Figure 8A));
Determining whether the RFID tag is on a tag list (i.e., determining whether the tag is on the “tag notify” list (column 11, lines 55-67; column 12, lines 36-59; Figure 8A)) and
Update, when the RFID tag read time is within the last movement time period associated with the RFID tag and the RFID tag is on the tag list, the tag list based at least on the RFID tag (column 12, lines 56-67; column 13, lines 1-8; column 14, lines 47-67; Figure 8A-9).
Re claim 8:
SOLOMON teaches the system of claim 1, wherein the presence detector comprises at least one of an infrared (IR) sensor, millimeter (MM) wave sensor, microwave sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, or radar sensor (column 3, lines 36-51).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-7, 10, and 13-20 are 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.
Conclusion
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/LAURA A GUDORF/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
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