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 .
Double Patenting
Claims 1-30 are provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-30 of copending Application No. 19/300525 (reference application). Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because similar limitations within the independent claim.
This is a provisional nonstatutory double patenting rejection because the patentably indistinct claims have not in fact been patented.
19/300557
19/300525
1. A product for securing communications of a plurality of networked computing devices, the product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code executable by a processor to perform communication management operations, the communication management operations comprising:
i) intercepting a first network packet to obtain a first payload with a higher- than-OSI layer three portion and a destination port number, the destination port number assigned to a destination port on one of the plurality of networked computing devices;
ii) confirming from the higher-than-OSI layer three portion of the first payload that the first payload conforms to at least one of a data model pre-assigned to the destination port number;
iii) after confirmation that the first payload conforms to the data model for the destination port, forming a second network packet comprising a second payload, and at least one of a local program identification code, and a data model identification code; and
iv) executing at least one instruction to send the second network packet to network security software on the destination port on the one of the plurality of networked computing devices via a zero-trust network access (ZTNA).
1. A product for securing communications of a plurality of networked computing devices, the product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code executable by a processor to perform communication management operations, the communication management operations comprising:
i) intercepting a first network packet at a hypervisor to obtain a first payload with a higher-than-OSI layer three portion and a destination port number, the destination port number assigned to a destination port on one of the plurality of networked computing devices;
ii) decrypting, with a single-use cryptographic key, at least a portion of the first higher-than-OSI layer three portion of the first payload to obtain one or more first packet parameters;
iii) confirming at the hypervisor that the first payload conforms to at least one of a data model pre-assigned to the destination port number based on a comparison of the one or more first packet parameters with one or more first expected values;
iv) after confirmation that the first payload conforms to the data model for the destination port, forming a second network packet comprising a second payload and at least one of a local program identification code or a data model identification code; and
v) executing at least one instruction to send the second network packet to network security software on the destination port on the one of the plurality of networked computing devices via a zero-trust network access (ZTNA).
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments, see remarks, filed 03/18/2026, with respect to claims 1-30 have been fully considered and are persuasive. The rejections / objections of claims 1-30 has been withdrawn.
From IDS of 03/18/2026 an Obvious Type Double Patenting Rejection is being made to application number 19/300525.
Conclusion
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/William J. Goodchild/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2433