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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This action is in response to the application filed on May 23, 2025. Claims
1-21 are pending. Claims 1-21 represent MULTI-OPERATOR CORE SASE FOR 5G SASE.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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19/217,567
12,695,792
12,676,896
1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: receive mobile network traffic, at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud network, via a service provider interconnect between a plurality of mobile service provider networks and the SASE cloud network; monitor the mobile network traffic at the SASE cloud network from the plurality of mobile service provider networks for a tenant of a SASE cloud network provider; enforce a security policy based on one or more parameters associated with the mobile network traffic, wherein the security policy is associated with the tenant of the SASE cloud network provider; and forward secured data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network to its original destination if allowed by the security policy, and block or drop the secured data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network if not allowed by the security policy; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: receive traffic associated with a User Equipment (UE) from a mobile core network at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud network; enforce a security policy on data plane traffic associated with the UE based on contextual information associated with the UE to provide secured data plane traffic; and forward the secured data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network to its original destination; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: receive traffic associated with a User Equipment (UE) from a mobile core network at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud network; extract contextual information associated with the traffic to determine a security policy to apply to the traffic; and enforce the security policy on data plane traffic associated with the UE based on the contextual information associated with the UE to provide secured data plane traffic; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
12,676,896
1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: receive traffic associated with a User Equipment (UE) from a mobile core network at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud network; extract contextual information from the traffic, wherein: the contextual information includes the following: subscriber-ID, Network Slice ID, equipment-ID, and other information; the subscriber-ID includes one or more of the following: International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and/or Subscription Permanent Identifier (SUPI); the equipment-ID includes one or more of the following: International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and/or Permanent Equipment Identifier (PEI); the Network Slice ID includes the following: Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI); and the other information includes one or more of the following: User Equipment (UE) IP, Access Point Name (APN), Data Network Name (DNN), and/or Radio Access Technology (RAT) Type information; enforce a security policy on data plane traffic associated with the UE based on the contextual information associated with the UE to provide secured data plane traffic; forward the secured data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network to the mobile core network, wherein the secured data plane traffic egresses the mobile core network for its original destination; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions..
2. Claims 1-21 of the instant application are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20, 1-18 and 1-23 of U.S. Patent No(s). 12,695,791; 12,676,896 and 12,676,896, respectively, issued to Ranade. Although the conflicting set of claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because a comparison between the set of claims shows that the instant claims 1-20 are anticipated by claims 1-20, 1-18 and 1-23 of ‘791, ‘896 and ‘596, respectively.
This is a provisional nonstatutory double patenting rejection because the patentably indistinct claims have not in fact been patented.
Conclusion
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/EL HADJI M SALL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2457
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