METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING INPUT MOTION

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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMAR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www.uspto.gov APPLICATION NO. 19/233,453 23373 7590 FILING DATE 06/10/2025 05/22/2026 SUGHRUE MION, PLLC 2000 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W. SUITE 9000 WASHINGTON, DC 20006 FIRST NAMED INVENTOR ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. Hyechan BAE Q308229 ART UNIT 2623 CONFIRMATION NO. EXAMINER HERMANN, KIRK W 5515 PAPER NUMBER NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 05/22/2026 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. 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Attachment(s) 1) Notice of References Cited (PTO-892) 2) Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08a and/or PTO/SB/08b) Paper No(s)/Mail Date 3) Interview Summary (PTO-413) Paper No(s)/Mail Date Other: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTOL-326 (Rev. 11-13) Office Action Summary Part of Paper No./Mail Date 20260515 Continuation Sheet (PTOL-326) Application No. 19/233,453 /KIRK W HERMANN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2623 Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 2 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Foreign Priority 2. This application is a by-pass continuation application of International Application No. PCT/KR2023/016635, filed on 10/25/2023, which is based on and claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0179867 filed on 12/20/2022, and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2023-0017881 filed on 02/10/2023 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office. On 07/02/2025 and 07/03/2025, the USPTO electronically retrieved copies of these documents. Thus, on the office action summary sheet examiner has checked off the box "all" certified copies have been received at this time. Drawings Objection 3. The drawings are objected to because FIG. 9B at S960 and S980 includes “GRATER”. This objection may be overcome, for example, by changing "GRATER” to “GREATER”. Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as "amended." If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 3 drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either "Replacement Sheet" or "New Sheet" pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance. Claim Objections 4. Claims 5-6, 14 and 20 are objected to because of the following informalities: Claim 5 at line 2 includes extra spaces between words. This objection may be overcome, for example, by left justifying the claims. Appropriate correction is required. This objection applies to claim 6 that depends upon claim 5. Claim 14 at line 1 includes extra spaces between words. This objection may be overcome, for example, by left justifying the claims. Appropriate correction is required. Claim 20 at line 1 includes extra spaces between words. This objection may be overcome, for example, by left justifying the claims. Claim Rejections – 35 USC §112 5. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b): (b) CONCLUSION. - The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA), second paragraph: The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention. 6. Claims 6 and 11-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre- AIA), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 4 distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Claim 6 at line 1 includes "the first value" that lacks antecedent basis. This ground of rejection may be overcome, for example, by amending claim 1 at line 1 to "a first value". This would provide proper antecedent basis for "the first value” in claim 6 at line 4. Appropriate correction is required. Claim 6 at line 1 includes "a first preset value”, however it is unclear whether applicant is referring to "a first preset value” previously declared in claim 5 at line 8 or to another preset value. This ground of rejection may be overcome, for example, by amending claim 1 at line 1 to "the first preset value". Appropriate correction is required. Claim 11 at line 10 includes "the input motion” that lacks antecedent basis. This ground of rejection may be overcome, for example, by amending claim 11 at line 10 to "input motion”. This would provide proper antecedent basis for "the input motion” in claim 11 at line 15; in claim 12 at lines 2-3; in claim 15 at lines 6 and 9; and in claim 17 at line 4. Appropriate correction is required. This grounds of rejection applies to claims 12-19 that depend upon claim 11. Claim 16 at line 1 includes "the first value" that lacks antecedent basis. This ground of rejection may be overcome, for example, by amending claim 16 at line 1 to "a first value". Appropriate correction is required. Claim 16 at lines 1-2 includes "a first preset value”, however it is unclear whether applicant is referring to "a first preset value" previously declared in claim 15 at line 8 or to another preset value. This ground of rejection may be overcome, for Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 5 example, by amending claim 16 at lines 1-2 to "the first preset value”. Appropriate correction is required. 7. Claim Rejections – 35 USC § 102 The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of AIA 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 user, on sale or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. 8. Claims 1-2 and 11-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2018/0188938 A1 to Deselaers et al. ("Deselaers"). 100 102 130 112- User Computing Device Processoris) Machine Leaming Computing System 132 114 Processer(s) 116 Memory 134 Data Memory 136 118 Instructions 138 Instructions 120 Machine-Leamed Touch Interpretation Prediction 140 Model(s) 122 Touch Sensor Machine-Learned Touch Interpretation Prediction 180 Model(s) 142 Training Data 150 User Input Component 124 Training Computing System 152 Processor(s) 126 User Output Component 154 Mamory 156 Data 158 Instructions 160 Model Trainer 162 Training Data Figure 1 Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 6 224 226 228 Touch Sensor Data Sampled at Time t Touch Sensor Data Sampled at Time to Touch Sensor Data Sampled at Time tr 220 222 Touch Interpretation Prediction Model 224 Set of Touch Points Neural Network (or other machine- learned model) 226 Gesture Interpretation 228 Touch Prediction Vector 230 At least one future time trop Figure 5 250 254 290 270 272 376 Figure 6 Figure 7 As to claim 1, Deselaers discloses a method of identifying an input motion by an electronic device(250)(Figs. 1, 6-7; 0023-0025, 0058, 0097-0099), the method (0097-0099) comprising: identifying, based on touch data of a touch display (Figs. 6-7; 0023-0025) and a first algorithm (||0029-0030), whether a first touch input to the touch display corresponds to a valid input (Figs. 5-7: 224; 0023-0025, 0029-0030, 0038, 0091 an application layer determines if each touch input is intended or unintended); Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 7 obtaining, based on the first touch input indicating the valid input (Figs. 6-7; 0023-0025, 0029-0030 - predicted touch interpretation determines if each touch input is intended or unintended), first inference result information related to the input motion for the first touch input based on the touch data and a second algorithm (Fig. 5: 225; 0023-0025, 0027, 0029-0035, 0038, 006, 0079-0081, 0086 a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second application layer {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input); and identifying, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input, whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (Fig. 5: 22, touch sensor data 224 & 226, gesture interpretation 226;0087-0089, 0092 - a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second application layer {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input and a second touch input). As to claim 2, Deselaers discloses the method of claim 1, as applied above. Deselaers further discloses wherein the first inference result information indicates a probability that the first touch input corresponds to the input motion, or whether the first touch input corresponds to the input motion (Fig. 5: 225; 0023-0025, 0027, 0029-0035, 0038, 006, 0079-0081, 0086 - a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 8 application layer {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input). As to claim 11, Deselaers discloses an electronic device(102, 250)(Figs. 1, 6-7; 0023, 0056, 0097) comprising: a touch display(122)(FIG. 1; 0058); memory storing (114)(FIG. 1; 0057) one or more instructions(118)(FIG. 1; 0057); and at least one processor(112)(FIG. 1; 0057) configured to execute the one or more instructions (118)(FIG. 1; 0057), wherein the one or more instructions(118)(FIG. 1; 0057), when executed by the at least one processor(112)(FIG. 1; [0057) individually or collectively, cause the electronic device(102, 250) (Figs. 1, 6-7; 0023, 0058, 0097) to: identify, based on touch data of the touch display (Figs. 6-7; 0023-0025) and a first algorithm (||0029-0030, 0091), whether a first touch input to the touch display corresponds to a valid input (Figs. 5-7: 224; 0023-0025, 0029-0030, 0038, 0091 an application layer/first algorithm determines if each touch input is intended or unintended); obtaining, based on the first touch input indicating the valid input (Figs. 5-7: 224; 0023-0025, 0029-0030, 0038, 0091 an application layer/first algorithm determines if each touch input is intended or unintended), first inference result information related to the input motion for the first touch input based on the touch data and a second algorithm (Fig. 5: 225; 0023-0025, 0027, 0029-0035, Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 9 0038, 006, 0079-0081, 0086 a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second application layer/second algorithm {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input); and identify, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input, identify whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (Fig. 5: 22, touch sensor data 224 & 226, gesture interpretation 226; 0087-0089, 0092 a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second application layer {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input and a second touch input). As to claim 12, Deselaers discloses the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Deselaers further discloses wherein the first inference result information indicates a probability that the first touch input corresponds to the input motion, or whether the first touch input corresponds to the input motion (Fig. 5: 225; 0023-0025, 0027, 0029-0035, 0038, 006, 0079-0081, 0086 a motion gesture, such as a scroll gesture, swipe gesture or pinch to zoom gesture, is predicted by a second application layer {FIG. 5: 222} based on intended touch inputs including the first touch input). Claim Rejections – 35 USC § 103 Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 10 9. 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 may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made. 10. Claims 1, 4, 7-9, 11, 14 and 17-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2013/0106776 A1 to Park et al. (“Park”) in view of U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2012/0206380 A1 to Zhao et al. (“Zhao”). 140 CURPMUNICATION UNIT 0 FIG. 1 FIG. 2 MEMORY 210 270 230 249 100 138 TOUCH PANEL SIZE SENSING UNI TOUCH INTERACTION IDENTIFYRRI NO IDENTIFYERG UNIT TOUCH SCREEN FIG. 3A 210 FIG. 38 FIG. 30 210 Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 11 FIG. 8 515 515 Non-Touch Threshold Man-Touch Touch & Active 517 Noise Touch Not Active FIG. 9 STAHT NO TOUCH SENSEOP YES SENSE TOUCH AREA SIZE -913 240 INPUT IDENTIFYING UNIT IDENTIFY FOUCHE IN TERACTION -912 IDENTIFY INPUT ACCORDING TO THE TOUCH AREA SLE AND THE CUS INTERACTION 917 EXECUTE A FUNCTION CORRESPONDING 810 TO THE IDENHED INPLIT END TIS] As to claim 1, Park discloses a method of identifying an input motion by an electronic device (FIGs. 1, 3A-3C, 9; 0039, 0048-0053, 0070, 0072-0075), the method comprising: identifying, based on touch data of a touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070, 0073) and a first algorithm ([[0036, especially - "The first touch threshold refers to a reference value to determine whether the touch panel is touched", 0041, especially - " a touch threshold to determine whether a touch is made or has occurred on the touch panel”, 0062, 0070, 0073), whether a first touch input to the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070) corresponds to a valid input (0036, 0041, 0062, 0070, 0073); Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 12 obtaining, based on the first touch input indicating the valid input (0036, 0041-0042, 0062, 0070, 0073), first inference result information related to the input motion for the first touch input based on the touch data and a second algorithm (FIGs. 3A-3C; 190036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0051, 0063, 0070 - the identity of a touch object is inferred based on an identified size of a valid touch. As shown in Table 1, the identity of the touch object along with the identity of the input motion of a second touch input (e.g., twist, sweep and stop) is used to determine the function to be carried out for the currently executed application); and identifying, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input a function to execute (FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073 - a touch input is determined based on: (i) inferring the identity of a touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch; (ii) identifying a touch interaction such as a twist, sweep, a stop, etc. by detecting an altered location of a preset point of the valid touch caused by a second touch input. Based on the touch motion and a currently executed application, an inferred touch interaction/gesture is determined that is used to carry out a corresponding function/command related to a currently executed application.). Park does not expressly disclose identifying, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 13 motion for at least one second touch input, whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion. Zhao discloses and identifying, based on the first result information and second result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input, whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (0026, especially - "the gesture input...may be a single finger gesture input, or a multi-finger gesture input", 0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051 - each of a series of contacts is correlated to be part of a single touch gesture/motion by algorithms of prediction-based touch contact tracking, which make determinations including: (i) a predicted next contact location; and (ii) whether two touch contacts are nearest neighbors). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park with Zhao to provide a method of identifying an input motion by an electronic device that allows a user to be able to enter a long touch gesture on a small touch screen (190003, 0024). Park and Zhao teach and identifying, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input, whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (Park: FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073; Zhao: 0026-0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051). Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 14 As to claim 4, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: [0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teaching of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 7, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach further comprising, based on the first touch input and the at least one second touch input corresponding to the input motion, performing an event corresponding to the input motion (Park: FIGs. 3A, 3C; 0036, 0041-0042, 0046-0053; Zhao: 0026-0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050- 0051), wherein the event corresponds to a process that comprises obtaining an image displayed on the touch display (Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A, 3C: 130, 210; 0036, 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073). The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 15 As to claim 8, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park further discloses further comprising obtaining the first touch input on the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070), wherein the touch data corresponds to electrostatic capacitance data of the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, especially - "capacitive touch panel", 0047, 0070). As to claim 9, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second inference result information is identified based on other touch data for the touch display and the second algorithm (Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A-3C: 130, 210; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046- 0053, 0070, 0073 - for a second touch input part of a motion/gesture, a second inference is made as to the identity of the touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch, in which the detected second touch data is other touch data and the second algorithm, i.e., 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size”), and wherein the at least one second touch input corresponds to a valid input motion and is identified based on the first algorithm and the other touch data (Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A-3C: 130, 210; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041- 0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073 - for a second touch input part of a motion/gesture, a second inference is made as to the identity of the touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch, in which the detected second touch data is other touch data and the first algorithm, i.e., 0036, especially - "The first touch threshold refers to a Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 16 reference value to determine whether the touch panel is touched"; Zhao: 0026-0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051). The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 11, Park discloses an electronic device (FIGs. 1, 3A-3C; 0039, 0048) comprising: a touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0039, 0052); memory(110)(FIG. 1; 0041) storing one or more instructions (FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046); and at least one processor(100)(FIG. 1; 0040) configured to execute the one or more instructions (FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0040, 0041,0046), wherein the one or more instructions (FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), when executed by the at least one processor(100)(FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046) individually or collectively, cause the electronic device (FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0039, 0040, especially - "The controller 100 controls the entire operation of the mobile device", 0041, 0046, 0048) to: identify, based on touch data of the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070, 0073) and a first algorithm (9|9|0036, especially - "The first touch threshold refers to a reference value to determine whether the touch panel is touched", 0041, especially - " a touch threshold to determine whether a touch is made or has occurred on the touch panel”, 0062, 0070, 0073), whether a first touch input to the Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 17 touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070) corresponds to a valid input (130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070); obtaining, based on the first touch input indicating the valid input (0036, 0041-0042, 0062, 0070, 0073), first inference result information related to the input motion for the first touch input based on the touch data and a second algorithm (FIGs. 3A-3C; 10036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0051, 0063, 0070 - the identity of a touch object is inferred based on an identified size of a valid touch. As shown in Table 1, the identity of the touch object along with the identity of the input motion of a second touch input (e.g., twist, sweep and stop) is used to determine the function to be carried out for the currently executed application); and identify, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input a function to execute (FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073 a touch input is determined based on: (i) inferring the identity of a touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch; (ii) identifying a touch interaction such as a twist, sweep, a stop, etc. by detecting an altered location of a preset point of the valid touch caused by a second touch input. Based on the touch motion and a currently executed application, an inferred touch interaction/gesture is determined that is used to carry out a corresponding function/command related to a currently executed application.). Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 18 Park does not expressly disclose identify whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion. Zhao discloses identify whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (190026, especially - "the gesture input... may be a single finger gesture input, or a multi-finger gesture input”, 0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051 - each of a series of contacts is correlated to be part of a single touch gesture/motion by algorithms of prediction-based touch contact tracking, which make determinations including: (i) a predicted next contact location; and (ii) whether two touch contacts are nearest neighbors). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park with Zhao to provide an electronic device that allows a user to be able to enter a long touch gesture on a small touch screen (0003, 0024). As to claim 14, Park and Zhao teach the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: [0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 19 module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teaching of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 20 As to claim 15, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 16, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 17, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 18, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 19, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. As to claim 20, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second algorithm comprises at least one of a first layer related to feature extraction, a second layer related to a temporal feature (Park: 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"; Zhao: FIG. 1: 114, 120; 0027, especially - "a touch input module 114 (e.g., a lower layer component) that is implemented to recognize touch input sensor data 116... the touch sensor data from the touch input module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 1. Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 19 module as HID reports... The HID reports include a time and position data"), or a third layer related to feature classification. The motivation to combine the additional teaching of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 11. As to claim 17, Park and Zhao teach the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the one or more instructions (Park: FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively (Park: FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), cause the electronic device to (FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0039, 0040, especially - "The controller 100 controls the entire operation of the mobile device", 0041, 0046, 0048), when the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion, performing an event corresponding to the input motion (Park: FIGs. 3A, 3C; 0036, 0041-0042, 0046-0053; Zhao: 0026-0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051), and wherein the event corresponds to a process that comprises obtaining an image displayed on the touch display (Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A, 3C: 130, 210; 0036, 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073). The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 11. As to claim 18, Park and Zhao teach the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 20 Park further discloses wherein the one or more instructions (FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), when executed by the at least one processor(100)(FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046) individually or collectively, cause the electronic device (FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0039, 0040, especially - "The controller 100 controls the entire operation of the mobile device”, 0041, 0046, 0048) to obtain the first touch input on the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070), and wherein the touch data corresponds to electrostatic capacitance data of the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, especially - "capacitive touch panel", 0047, 0070). As to claim 19, Park and Zhao teach the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Park and Zhao further teach wherein the second inference result information is identified based on other touch data for the touch display and the second algorithm (Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A-3C: 130, 210; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046- 0053, 0070, 0073 - for a second touch input part of a motion/gesture, a second inference is made as to the identity of the touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch, in which the detected second touch data is other touch data and the second algorithm, i.e., 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size"), and wherein the at least one second touch input corresponds to a valid input motion and is identified based on the first algorithm and the other touch data(Park: FIGs. 1-2, 3A-3C: 130, 210; 0036, especially - “The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041- Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 21 0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073 - for a second touch input part of a motion/gesture, a second inference is made as to the identity of the touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch, in which the detected second touch data is other touch data and the first algorithm, i.e., 0036, especially - "The first touch threshold refers to a reference value to determine whether the touch panel is touched"; Zhao: 0026-0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051). The motivation to combine the additional teachings of Zhao is for the same reasoning set forth above for claim 11. As to claim 20, Park discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium(110)(FIG. 1; 0041) having instructions recorded thereon (FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), that, when executed by one or more processors(100)(FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), cause the one or more processors(100)(FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046) to: identify, based on touch data of a touch display (130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2;0042, 0047, 0070, 0073) and a first algorithm (0036, especially - "The first touch threshold refers to a reference value to determine whether the touch panel is touched", 0041, especially ." a touch threshold to determine whether a touch is made or has occurred on the touch panel", 0062, 0070, 0073), whether a first touch input to the touch display(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070) corresponds to a valid input(130, 210)(FIGs. 1-2; 0042, 0047, 0070); obtain, based on the first touch input indicating the valid input (0036, 0041-0042, 0062, 0070, 0073), first inference result information related to an input Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 22 motion for the first touch input based on the touch data and a second algorithm (FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0051, 0063, 0070 - a second algorithm infers the identity of a touch object is based on an identified size of a valid touch. As shown in Table 1, the identity of the touch object along with the identity of the input motion of a second touch input (e.g., twist, sweep and stop) is used to determine the function to be carried out for the currently executed application); and identify, based on the first inference result information and second inference result information related to the input motion for at least one second touch input a function to execute (FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073 - a touch input is determined based on: (i) inferring the identity of a touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch; (ii) identifying a touch interaction such as a twist, sweep, a stop, etc. by detecting an altered location of a preset point of the valid touch caused by a second touch input. Based on the touch motion and a currently executed application, an inferred touch interaction/gesture is determined that is used to carry out a corresponding function/command related to a currently executed application.). Park does not expressly disclose identify whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion. Zhao discloses identify whether the first touch input and the at least one second touch input correspond to the input motion (0026, especially - "the gesture input... may be a single finger gesture input, or a multi-finger gesture input", Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 23 0027, 0029, 0031-0032, 0035, 0040, 0042, 0050-0051 - each of a series of contacts is correlated to be part of a single touch gesture/motion by algorithms of prediction-based touch contact tracking, which make determinations including: (i) a predicted next contact location; and (ii) whether two touch contacts are nearest neighbors). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park with Zhao to provide a non- transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions recorded thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to allow a user of an electronic device to enter a long touch gesture on a small touch screen (0003, 0024). 11. Claims 3 and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2013/0106776 A1 to Park et al. ("Park”) in view of U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2012/0206380 A1 to Zhao et al. ("Zhao") as applied to claim 1, in view of Japan Patent Pub. No. 2017215842 A to Ichikawa et al. ("Ichikawa”). As to claim 3, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park further discloses wherein the identifying whether the first touch input (FIGs. 1-2: 130, 210; 0042, 0047, 0070) corresponds to the valid input (0036, especially - "The touch threshold value refers to a reference value to determine whether nodes are touched", 0041, especially - "a first touch threshold for identifying a touch interaction", 0062, 0068, especially - "the presence of a touch on a touch panel 210 is detected using a first touch threshold TH1", 0070, especially - "if a touch interaction is detected in one or more nodes greater than the first touch threshold Th1, the touch identifying unit 810 identifies the presence of a touch", 0073). Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 24 Park and Zhao do not expressly disclose wherein the identifying whether the first touch input corresponds to the valid input comprises: identifying a touch area corresponding to the first touch input based on the touch data; and identifying, based on a length of the touch area being greater than a length threshold, that the first touch input corresponds to the valid input. Ichikawa discloses wherein the identifying whether the first touch input corresponds to the valid input comprises: identifying a touch area corresponding to the first touch input based on the touch data (p 12, 3-5); and identifying, based on a length of the touch area being greater than a length threshold, that the first touch input corresponds to the valid input (p 12, 3-5). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park and Zhao with Ichikawa to provide a method of identifying an input motion by an electronic device that prevents unintentional inputs (p 8, 92-3; p 12, 4). As to claim 13, Park and Zhao teach the electronic device of claim 11, as applied above. Park further discloses wherein the one or more instructions (FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046), when executed by the at least one processor(100)(FIG. 1: 110; 0040, 0041, 0046) individually or collectively, cause the electronic device (FIG. 1: 100, 110; 0039, 0040, especially - "The controller 100 controls the entire operation of the mobile device", 0041, 0046, 0048) to: Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 25 identify the first touch input based on the touch data (FIGs. 1-2: 130, 210; 0042, 0047, 0070). Park does not expressly disclose identify a touch area corresponding to the first touch input based on the touch data; and based on a length of the touch area being greater than a length threshold, identify that the first touch input corresponds to the valid input. Ichikawa discloses identify a touch area corresponding to the first touch input based on the touch data (p 12, 3-5); based on a length of the touch area being greater than a length threshold, identify that the first touch input corresponds to the valid input (p 12, 3-5). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park and Zhao with Ichikawa to provide an electronic device that prevents unintentional inputs (p 8, 92-3; p 12, 4). 12. Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2013/0106776 A1 to Park et al. ("Park”) in view of U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2012/0206380 A1 to Zhao et al. ("Zhao") as applied to claim 1, in view of China Patent Pub. No. 104035714 A to Zhu et al. (“Zhu”). As to claim 10, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above. Park further discloses the first inference result information and the second inference result information (FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - "The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041-0042, 0046- 0053, 0070, 0073 - a touch input is determined based on: (i) inferring the identity of a touch object based on an identified size of a valid touch; (ii) identifying a touch Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 26 interaction such as a twist, sweep, a stop, etc. by detecting an altered location of a preset point of the valid touch caused by a second touch input. Based on the touch motion and a currently executed application, an inferred touch interaction/gesture is determined that is used to carry out a corresponding function/command related to a currently executed application.). Park and Zhao do not expressly disclose further comprising storing, in order of touch inputs, the first inference result information in a queue in which the second inference result information is stored. Zhu discloses further comprising storing, in order of touch inputs, the first touch information in a queue in which the second touch information is stored (p 6, 13, 5, especially - "event queue of a first in first-put, and touch event is saved in this event queue successively"). Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify Park and Zhao with Zhu to provide a method of identifying an input motion by an electronic device that guarantees that the correct touch motion/gesture is identified. Park, Zhao and Zhu teach further comprising storing, in order of touch inputs, the first inference result information in a queue in which the second inference result information is stored (Park: FIGs. 3A-3C; 0036, especially - “The second touch threshold refers to a reference value to identify a touch area size", 0041- 0042, 0046-0053, 0070, 0073; Zhu: p 6, 13, 5). Potentially Allowable Subject Matter Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 27 13. As to claims 5, if the above-stated objection to this claims is overcome, then it would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. As to claim 6, if the above-stated claim objection and grounds of rejection based on 35 U.S.C. 112(b) are overcome, then it too would be allowable if rewritten in independent form. As to claims 15-16, if the above- stated claim grounds of rejection based on 35 U.S.C. 112(b) is overcome, then they too would be allowable if rewritten in independent form. 14. Reasons for Allowance The following is examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: the claimed invention is directed to: FIG. 2 START BASED ON TOUCH DATA RELATED TO TOUCH DISPLAY AND FIRST ALGORITHM, IDENTIFY WHETHER FIRST TOUCH INPUT TO TOUCH DISPLAY CORRESPONDS TO VALID INPUT S210 OF INPUT MOTION WHEN FIRST TOUCH INPUT CORRESPONDS TO VALID INPUT, OBTAIN INFERENCE RESULT INFORMATION RELATED TO INPUT MOTION FOR FIRST TOUCH INPUT BASED ON TOUCH DATA AND SECOND ALGORITHM S220 BASED ON INFERENCE RESULT INFORMATION RELATED TO INPUT MOTION FOR FIRST TOUCH INPUT AND INFERENCE RESULT INFORMATION RELATED TO INPUT MOTION FOR AT LEAST ONE SECOND TOUCH INPUT, IDENTIFY WHETHER FIRST TOUCH INPUT AND AT LEAST ONE SECOND TOUCH INPUT CORRESPOND TO INPUT MOTION END S230 FIG. 6 -610 -620 -630 640 -650 FIG. 7 612 622 632 612 652 모모모모 614 624 634 654 616 -626 696 646 656 720 730 740 X Dependent claim 5 identifies the distinct features: "wherein the identifying whether the first touch input(FIG. 6: 610) and the at least one second touch input(FIG. 6: 620) correspond to the input motion (FIG. 2: S230) comprises: identifying, from among the first inference result information(FIG. 7: 710) and the second inference result information(FIG. 7: 720), third inference result information(FIG. 7: 730) indicating that a third touch input(FIG. 6: 630) Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 28 corresponds to the input motion(FIG. 2: S230); and based on a first number of consecutive instances of the third inference result information(FIG. 7: 730) being greater than a first preset value, identifying that the first touch input(FIG. 6: 610) and the at least one second touch input(FIG. 6: 620) correspond to the input motion(FIG. 2: S230)", with all other limitations as claimed. As to claim 5, Park and Zhao teach the method of claim 1, as applied above but does not teach the above additional claim limitations. FIG. 10 10 1010 1030 PROCESSOR TOUCH DISPLAY 1020 MEMORY Dependent claim 15 identifies the distinct features: wherein the one or more instructions (FIG. 10: 1020), when executed by the at least one processor (FIG. 10: 1010) individually or collectively, cause the electronic device(FIG. 10: 10) to: identify, from among the first inference result information(FIG. 7: 710) and the second inference result information(FIG. 7: 720), third inference result information(FIG. 7: 730) indicating that a third touch input (FIG. 6: 630) corresponds to the input motion(FIG. 2: S230), and based on a first number of consecutive instances of the third inference result information(FIG. 7: 730) being greater than a first preset value, identify that the first touch input(FIG. 6: 610) and Application/Control Number: 19/233,453 Art Unit: 2623 Page 29 the at least one second touch input(FIG. 6: 620) correspond to the input motion(FIG. 2: S230)", with all other limitations as claimed. As to claim 15, Park and Zhao teach electronic device of claim 11, as applied above but does not teach the above additional claim limitations. Other Relevant Prior Art 15. Other relevant prior art includes: FIG. 11 01 1110 11508 11708 TOUCH DATA M Long Touch FIRST OPERATION N 19 0 100 200 300 400 TIME (ms) 1120 AIR PRESSURE DATA 1008.6 1008.8. 1011.2 11700 Force Touch SECOND OPERATION 11500 1:700 Force Touch -and-Drag THIRD OPERATION U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2023/0359348 A1 to Hwang et al. discloses determining a type of user input(1170a-1170c)(FIG. 11; 0188) by processing touch data(1110)(FIG. 11; 0188) with air pressure data(1120)(FIG. 11; 0188) caused by touch inputs (FIG. 11: 1110; 0187-0188) using an artificial intelligence model(10)(FIG. 11; 0188). Conclusion 16. Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to KIRK W HERMANN whose telephone number is (571) 270-3891. 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If you would like assistance from a USPTO Customer Service Representative or access to the automated information system, call 800-786-9199 (IN USA OR CANADA) or 571-272-1000. /KIRK W HERMANN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2623