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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 .
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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Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent No. 12,323,428. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the claims of the instant application are anticipated by the claims of the patent.
Claims 1-20 of the instant application are mapped to claims 1-20 of the patent respectively.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 would be allowed if the rejection under Double Patenting is overcome.
Examiner’s Statement of Reasons for Allowance
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: After a fully conducted search and consideration, the prior art either taken alone or in combination neither anticipates nor render obvious to the claimed subject matter of the instant application. The prior art Garg et al. (US Patent No. 7,568,218) discloses a selective cross-realm authenticator associates an identifier with a request from an entity authenticated in one realm to access a resource associated with a second realm. The identifier indicates that the entity was authenticated in a realm other than the realm associated with the requested resource. A domain controller associated with the resource performs an access check to verify that the authenticated user is authorized to authenticate to the requested resource. Permissions associated with the resource can be used to specify levels of access to be granted to entities authenticated by a domain controller associated with another realm. (Garg, Abstract), Song et al. (US Pub No. 2011/0072502) discloses identity verification includes receiving a request for proof of identity from a service provider and receiving biometric information associated with a user of a communication device. The method also includes determining that the received biometric information matches a biometric profile that contains biometric information associated with a registered user of the communication device. The method also includes unlocking a private key associated with the registered user in response to determining that the received biometric information matches a biometric profile and sending a request for a digital certificate that is signed with the private key associated with the registered user. The method further includes receiving the digital certificate that includes a public key associated with the registered user and satisfies the request for proof of identity. The method also includes with forwarding the digital certificate to the service provider. (Song, Abstract), TANG (US Pub No. 2022/0338151) discloses when the terminal device is registered on a first network through a first access technology, acquiring, by the terminal device, first slice information; when the terminal device is registered on a second network through a second access technology, acquiring, by the terminal device, second slice information, where the second slice information and the first slice information are not mutually exclusive. The method, terminal device and network device of the embodiments of the present application can ensure that slices obtained by the terminal device over multiple access technologies are not mutually exclusive, thereby ensuring the progress of services. (TANG, Abstract), Stockert et al. (US Patent No. 11,310,104) discloses facilitating the allocation, scheduling, and management of network slice resources. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include selecting a resource configuration for a network slice based on characteristics of a user device and historical data related to the user device, resulting in a selected resource configuration. The operations can further include facilitating communicating resource configuration data representative of the selected resource configuration for the network slice to a network device for allocation to the user device connected to the network device. The operations can further include facilitating allocating resources to the network slice in accordance with the selected resource configuration. (Stockert, Abstract), Djordjevic et al. (US Pub No. 2019/0159119) discloses a method for operating a mobile entity in a mobile communications network which comprises at least one slice, comprising the steps of: determining to which slice of the mobile communication the mobile entity intends to connect, determining whether a relationship can be identified in the mobile entity via which the slice to which the mobile entity intends to connect, is related to an access point of the determined slice, wherein when the relationship is found in the mobile entity: transmitting a request message to a radio access network of the mobile communications network including the identified relationship. (Djordjevic, Abstract) and Pourzandi et al. (US Pub No. 2025/0048094) discloses authenticating a wireless communications device to a network slice of a communications network is provided. The wireless communications device has one or more attributes associated with it, at least one of the one or more attributes fulfilling an attribute-based access policy of the network slice. The method is performed by a slice manager of the communications network and comprises sending a secret key to the wireless communications device, sending an encrypted access key to the wireless communications device, the encrypted access key being encrypted using the access policy, such that a secret key generated based at least one attribute that fulfill the attribute-based access policy can decrypt the encrypted access key. (Pourzandi, Abstract), however, the prior art taken alone or in combination fails to teach or suggest “obtaining, by the processing system, a request from a first device of the first guest user to access the at least one network-based resource of the second public service entity; querying, by the processing system, an attribute provider to obtain one or more attributes of the first guest user; and granting, by the processing system, the first device an access to the at least one network-based resource of the second public service entity in accordance with at least one policy based on the one or more attributes” (as recited in claims 1 and 18-19). Claims are allowed in light of the above claim limitations when in combination with the remaining claim limitations.
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Conclusion
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/SHAQUEAL D WADE-WRIGHT/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2407
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