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 responds to Applicant’s Arguments/Remarks filed 06/26/2026. Claims 1, 5, 13-14 have been amended. Claims 3 and 11 have been cancelled. Claims 1-2, 4-10, 12-14 are now pending in this Application.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
Applicant’s amendment filed on 2/26/2026 has been fully considered. However, the amendment does not overcome the rejection under 35 USC § 101, and the rejection is therefore maintained.
As amended, claim 1 remains directed to “transferring search keywords, search data, and generating the base search path on the search keyword, then transferring the base search path from server to the terminal through the network” the additional limitations which do not integrate the judicial exception into the practical application. Rather, these limitations amount to insignificant extra solution activity, instructions to apply the abstract idea using generic computer components and conventional computer function.
Although the claim recites “displaying a first search path including keywords, displaying a result of clustering the keywords in the first search path, displaying classification collection of the keyword, displaying identifiers corresponding to the keywords classification collection, displaying on a left side of a screen, a filter object for selecting a keyword, displaying an identifier corresponding to the search volume variation information in the first search path, displaying a function for setting the identifier through a search volume fluctuation rate between a pastime point and a predetermined time based on the point in time… displaying, in a first area of a screen, a state of the first search path at a first time point included in the comparison time point, displaying in a second area of the screen a state of the first search path at a second time point that precedes the first time point” the claim does not recite any result achieved by the comparison . Specifically, the claim does not require using the comparison to control a device, modify data, generate a decision or otherwise improve computer functionality. Rather, the comparison is merely displayed to a user as information, which constitutes insignificant extra-solution activity and does not integrate the judicial exception into a practical application.
Accordingly, the examiner respectfully maintained the rejection.
Claims rejection
There is no prior art to reject claims 1-2, 4-10, 12-14.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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July 20, 2026
/THU N NGUYEN/Examiner, Art Unit 2154
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