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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 8/15/2025 was filed after the mailing date of the application on 8/15/2025. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Double Patenting
1. 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 obviousness-type 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); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement.
Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
2. Claims 1-20 are provisionally rejected on the ground of non-statutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1 of co-pending Application No. 18/306,115. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claim 1 of co-pending Application No. 18/306,115 contain every element of claims 1-20 of the instant application and such anticipate claims 1-20 of the instant application.
3. This is a provisional obviousness-type double patenting rejection since the conflicting claims have not yet been patented. The mapping of the rejected claims of the instant application to the co-pending application is as follows:
Claim 1 in the instant application #19/301,580 corresponds to claim 1 in the co-pending application #18/306,115.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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 for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Pruthi (US Patent 9071618) in view of Singh (US Patent 11070540).
As per claims 1: Pruthi discloses a system for performing a confirmation process via a resetting webpage form, the system comprising (see abstract):
a host server operated by a processor; and a memory including instructions that when executed cause the host server to (Col 6, lines 23-27; server 204 may be any suitable server, processor, computer, or data processing device, or combination of the same. Server 204 may be used to process the instructions received from, and the transactions entered into by, one or more participants):
generate a first set of login credentials associated with a first user to a webpage form, wherein the first set of login credentials has at least read and edit privileges for the webpage form with respect to a webpage data (Col 8, lines 47-50; one or more access levels to be assigned to and/or otherwise associated with the one or more passwords and/or other login credentials that are defined for and/or otherwise set for the user account);
generate a second set of login credentials associated with a second user to the webpage form, wherein the second set of login credentials has at least read and verification privileges for the webpage form with respect to the webpage data (Col 8, lines 56-63; define a first password for the user's own personal use that provides full access to his or her user account, as well as a second password which provides limited access to the user's user account (e.g., read-only access) and which the user can share with other individuals and/or entities to provide them with such limited access to the user's user account and/or to otherwise serve the user's purposes);
Pruthi does not specifically disclose receive one or more edits to the webpage data associated with the first set of login credentials; provide to the second user a user interface of the webpage form that includes the one or more edits; reject, by the second set of login credentials, the one or more edits to the webpage data; and in response to the rejection, reset the webpage form such that the webpage data is removed from the webpage form.
Singh discloses the REST APIs may be RBAC controlled such that a user has read-only access to a screen, but the user is not permitted to create an/or modify objects presented on the screen (Col 7, lines 24-27). Singh further discloses a “Submit” or “Enter” button enabling input/output interfaces 106 to receive an input indicating that the user is ready to submit a username and a password for authentication. After user interface 100A receives the submission of login information indicative of the username and password, in some cases, user interface 100A may use processing unit 110 to encrypt the login information. Processing unit 11o may use a plurality of different encryption algorithms to encrypt the login information. Such algorithms may include Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA), advanced encryption standard (AES), elliptic curve integrated encryption scheme (ECIES), data encryption standard (DES), twofish, threefish, or key exchange method, as examples (Col 15, lines 5-20).
Therefore, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains, having the teachings of Pruthi and Singh in it’s entirety, to modify the technique of Pruthi for define a first password for the user's own personal use that provides full access to his or her user account, as well as a second password which provides limited access to the user's user account (e.g., read-only access) by adopting Singh's teaching for a user has read-only access to a screen, but the user is not permitted to create an/or modify objects presented on the screen. The motivation would have been to improve performing a confirmation process via a resetting webpage form.
As per claim 2: The system of claim 1 wherein the memory further includes instructions that when executed cause the server to receive a verification indication of the webpage data, the verification indication associated with the first set of login credentials (See Singh; Col 7, lines 24-27; “Submit” or “Enter” button enabling input/output interfaces 106 to receive an input indicating that the user is ready to submit a username and a password for authentication).
As per claim 3: The system of claim 1 wherein the memory includes instructions that when executed cause the server to, in response to the rejection, reset one or more verification controls associated with the webpage data (See Singh; Col 7, lines 24-27; the REST APIs may be RBAC controlled such that a user has read-only access to a screen, but the user is not permitted to create an/or modify objects presented on the screen).
As per claim 4: The system of claim 1 wherein the memory includes instructions that when executed cause the server to transmit the first and second sets of login credentials to the first and second users, respectively, via a two-party secured key exchange between the host server and the respective associated user (See Pruthi; Col 8, lines 47-50; one or more access levels to be assigned to and/or otherwise associated with the one or more passwords and/or other login credentials that are defined for and/or otherwise set for the user account).
As per claim 5: The system of claim 1 wherein the read and edit privileges of the first set of login credentials are restricted to a portion of the webpage form, such that the first user is only able to read or edit the portion of the webpage form (See Pruthi; Col 8, lines 56-63; define a first password for the user's own personal use that provides full access to his or her user account, as well as a second password which provides limited access to the user's user account (e.g., read-only access) and which the user can share with other individuals and/or entities to provide them with such limited access to the user's user account and/or to otherwise serve the user's purposes).
As per claim 6: The system of claim 1 wherein the webpage data is a first webpage data, and wherein the memory includes instructions that when executed cause the server to, in response to the rejection, reset the webpage form such that a second webpage data is removed from the webpage form (See Singh; Col 7, lines 24-27; the REST APIs may be RBAC controlled such that a user has read-only access to a screen, but the user is not permitted to create an/or modify objects presented on the screen), wherein the first set of login credentials had read and edit privileges of the second webpage data (See Pruthi; Col 8, lines 56-63; define a first password for the user's own personal use that provides full access to his or her user account, as well as a second password which provides limited access to the user's user account (e.g., read-only access) and which the user can share with other individuals and/or entities to provide them with such limited access to the user's user account and/or to otherwise serve the user's purposes).
As per claim 7: The system of claim 1 wherein the memory includes instructions that when executed cause the server to:
subsequent to resetting the webpage form, receive additional edits to the webpage data associated with the first set of login credentials; provide, to the second user, the user interface of the webpage form that includes the additional edits; and receive, from the second set of login credentials, a verification indication associated with the webpage data (See Pruthi; Col 8, lines 56-63; define a first password for the user's own personal use that provides full access to his or her user account, as well as a second password which provides limited access to the user's user account (e.g., read-only access) and which the user can share with other individuals and/or entities to provide them with such limited access to the user's user account and/or to otherwise serve the user's purposes).
As per claim 8: The system of claim 1 wherein the webpage data is associated with a municipal bond closing, and wherein the one or more edits includes a name of a recipient, a name of a recipient bank, a source and user of funds, an amount of funds to be wired, an ABA number, or an account number (See Pruthi; Col 6, lines 42-54; computing environment 300 may include a customer computing device 302 (which may, e.g., be used by a customer of an organization, such as a financial institution, as discussed below), a customer mobile device 304 (which may, e.g., also be used by a customer of an organization, such as a financial institution, as discussed below), and a third-party computer system 306 (which may, e.g., be used by and/or operated by an individual, organization, or other entity different from the financial institution and different from the customer of the financial institution identified in the previous examples, as discussed below).
Conclusion
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/ANTHONY D BROWN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2408