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`Case 1:24-cv-00733-MN Document 23-8
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`DATE MAILED:01/26/2024
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`18/197,071
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`05/14/2023
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`Paresh K.Patel
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`TITLE OF INVENTION: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING REPRESENTATIONS OF PAYMENT ACCEPTING UNIT EVENTS
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`Application/Control Number: 18/197, 071
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Notice of Pre-AJA or AJA Status
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first
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`inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance:
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`Claims 1-20 are allowable over the art of record.
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`Particularly, the prior art taken alone or in combination failed to teach or suggest :
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`The prior art taken alone or in combination failed to teach or disclose :the limitations of
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`claims 1, 13 and 15.
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`Particularly, the prior art failed to teach or suggest:
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`"displaying a user interface of the mobile payment application on the display of the
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`mobile device, the user interface being configured to display a visual indication of the one or
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`more payment accepting units and accept user input selecting an available payment accepting
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`unit of the one or more payment accepting units, after establishing the wireless communication
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`path, enabling user interaction with the user interface of the mobile payment application to
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`complete a transaction with the available payment accepting unit, wherein the user interface
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`includes a visual representation of the available payment accepting unit, an indication of a
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`balance, and an affordance that, in response to a user input, indicates completion of the
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`transaction, exchanging information with the available payment accepting unit via the one or
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`more radio transceivers, in conjunction with the transaction, and after exchanging the
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`information, displaying, on the display, an updated user interface of the mobile payment
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`application to the user of the mobile device" as recited in independent claims 1, 13 and 15.
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`Case 1:24-cv-00733-MN Document 23-8
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`Application/Control Number: 18/197,071
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`The aboverecited limitations provide meaningfullimitations that transformsthe abstract
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`idea into patent eligible. The claims as a whole effect an improvementto another technology or
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`technical field. These limitations in combination provide meaningfullimitations beyond
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`generally linking the use of the abstract idea to a practical application.
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`The followingprior artis deemed relevant butfailed to teach or suggest the above noted
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`limitations.
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`Maeng (USPatent No. 11010759 B1) discloses a system, computer-readable storage
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`medium and method provide a secure transaction by receiving, from a mobile wallet a request to
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`assign a vendorspecific payment accountidentifier (VSPAI) to a payment accountidentifier
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`(PAI) associated with a user of the mobile wallet. Identifying informationis verified of: (i) an
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`issuer of the PAI, (ii) a specific vendor;and(iii) the user of the mobile wallet. In response to
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`verifying, a unique VSPAIis created that is associated with the PAI of the user and the specific
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`vendor. Then, when a payment requestis received including the unique VSPAI for a transaction
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`with a particular vendor,the particular vendoris verified as the specific vendor associated with
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`the unique VSPAI.In response to verifying that the particular vendor, paymentof the transaction
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`by theissuer using the PAI associated with the unique VSPAisfacilitated.
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`Giordano (US Pub. No. 20020152123 A1) discloses a method and apparatus for
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`processingretail non-cashtransaction at a kiosk or other similarself-service station. A terminal
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`located at the kioskis similar to online consumer computer7 10 except that a product database
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`similar to that found in online merchant computer7 34 is stored in the massstorage device. In
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`operation, the customerin merchantstore 12 approachesa kioskin the store, indicates a food,
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`merchandise or service selection, and provides a customer/transmitter ID using input device 920,
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`customer transceiver 50 or a combination of the two. In doing so, the customer has placed an
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`order for the desired article of food, merchandise or service and simultaneously initiated payment
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`processing. Once the transaction is authorized, a receipt is printed on printer 990 and the
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`purchase is delivered to the customer, either at the kiosk or at another predetermined location.
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`for Allowance. "
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`Conclusion
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