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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 the appropriate paragraphs of 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 use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 23 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Elghazzawi (US 20140002241).
Regarding claim 23, A volunteer responder network server system having at least one processor and memory having programmed instructions for execution on the at least one processor, the programmed instructions arranged such that the volunteer responder network server is configured to: receive an electronic incident message that indicates that a monitoring device has detected a potential cardiac arrest incident based on victim parameters detected by a monitoring device, (“In some aspects a computer program product includes instructions to cause a processor to receive a request for emergency services and receive information that identifies a location associated with the request, identify, from among a plurality of individuals registered as potential responders, one or more registered individuals who are currently nearest to the identified location,” Elghazzawi: paragraph 26 & “Computing device 600 includes a processor 602, memory 604, a storage device 606, a high-speed interface 608 connecting to memory 604 and high-speed expansion ports 610, and a low speed interface 612 connecting to low speed bus 614 and storage device 606” Elghazzawi: paragraph 93)
the electronic incident message including an incident location indicative of a location of the potential cardiac arrest incident; (“In the figure, the victim 102, has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while running on a trail near a pond in the park. Upon feeling chest pains, the victim 102 may have called 911 in order to report an emergency, or may have activated an application installed on his or her smart phone, where the application is programmed to initiate a call to emergency services and to provide data that indicates the victim's 102 geographic location (e.g., as determined by the smartphone GPS or by using cell tower triangulation or similar services)” Elghazzawi: paragraph 47)
based at least in part on the received electronic incident message, automatically identify and select a set of one or more responder targets including (i) one or more volunteer responders, and (ii) one or more automated external defibrillators (AEDs); and send nearby incident notifications to the selected set of responder targets requesting volunteer assistance to respond to the potential cardiac arrest incident; and wherein the electronic incident message is received directly from one selected from the group consisting of: the monitoring device; a smartphone in close proximity to the monitoring device; and a device network server or virtual assistant server configured to communicate with the monitoring device. (“A central component of the system 200 is a dispatch center 202 such as a traditional emergency 911 dispatch center where operators (human or automated) receive calls about emergency events, take information on those calls, and notify appropriate professional responders so that they can respond to the calls. In this example, the dispatch center 202 is augmented with additional sub-systems to provide for greater functionality, including the dispatch of responders to emergency events and the coordination of delivery of emergency response equipment to the emergency event.” Elghazzawi: paragraph 61 & “The dispatcher may then choose, at the dispatcher's discretion, to alert professional responders and registered responders who are registered with the system and who may be in the area around the park. As discussed in more detail below, the dispatcher, upon pulling up the map around the area of the victim 102, may choose to see an overlay, or layer, on the map of all possible registered responders in the area. From such an interface, the dispatcher can press on icons that represent certain potential responders to choose them as candidate responders, and may then make other selections to have notifications sent to each of those candidate responders regarding the emergency. A notification can then be sent to the candidate responders. For example, a message may be sent to each smart phone of the candidate responders”)
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) 24 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Elghazzawi in view of Newton (US 10092767).
Regarding claim 24, A volunteer responder network server system as recited in claim 23 wherein the selected AEDs are each configured to automatically generate at least one of an audible and a visual nearby incident alert in response to the receipt of the corresponding nearby incident notification is not specifically disclosed by Elghazzawi. Newton discloses a system for detecting cardiac arrests that teaches notifying an AED and having it provide an alert (“Upon receipt of the message, the AED 20 and/or the cell phone 32 or other communication device may sound an alarm or provide another alert to indicate the need for the AED 20 to be used” Newton: column 7, lines 19-22). Modifying Elghazzawi to include sending a message to the AED and having it provide an alert would increase the overall safety of the system by providing the user with an easy way to locate the AED. Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date to modify Elghazzawi according to Newton.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-22 and 25 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art does not disclose nor suggest a computer server infrastructure that receives communications from monitoring devices, determines a potential cardiac arrest incident and transmits notifications to a volunteer responder network without identifying any of the responder targets to the volunteer responder network server (claims 1-22) and receiving notifications from at least two selected from the group consisting of monitoring devices, public safety answering points, and virtual assistants (claim 25).
Conclusion
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