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`CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING
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`Robert L. Rae
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`SHAH, ANTIM G
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`DATE MAILED: 09/ 1 8/201 3
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`01/19/2011
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`TITLE OF INVENTION: CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING
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`Robert L. Rae
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`TITLE OF INVENTION: CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING
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`Robert L. Rae
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`18279—18190
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`1820
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`ENTITY STATUS
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`13/009,483
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`01/19/2011
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`Robert L. Rae
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`18279—18190
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`FENWICK & WEST LLP
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`SHAH, ANTIM G
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`DATE MAILED: 09/ 1 8/201 3
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`Determination of Patent Term Adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 (b)
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`(application filed on or after May 29, 2000)
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`The Patent Term Adjustment to date is 263 day(s). If the issue fee is paid on the date that is three months after the
`mailing date of this notice and the patent issues on the Tuesday before the date that is 28 weeks (six and a half
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`Notice of Allowability
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`Application No.
`13/009,483
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`Applicant(s)
`RAE, ROBERT L.
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`AIA (First Inventor to
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`File) Status
`No
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address--
`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application.
`If not included
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`NOTICE OF ALLOWABILITY IS NOT A GRANT OF PATENT RIGHTS. This application is subject to withdrawal from issue at the initiative
`of the Office or upon petition by the applicant. See 37 CFR 1.313 and MPEP 1308.
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`1. IX This communication is responsive to RCE filed on 8/29/2013.
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`[I A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/were filed on
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`2. I] An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
`requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`; the restriction
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`3. IX The allowed claim(s) is/are 1-41 6- 12 and 14-16 (renumbered as 1-14) . As a result of the allowed claim(s), you may be eligible to
`benefit from the Patent Prosecution Highway program at a participating intellectual property office for the corresponding application.
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`4. I] Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`Certified copies:
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`1. El Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
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`2. I] Information Disclosure Statements (PTO/SB/08),
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`3. I] Examiner‘s Comment Regarding Requirement for Deposit
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`4. [Z Interview Summary (PTO-413),
`Paper No./Mai| Date 9/9/2013.
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`/ANT|M SHAH/
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`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2652
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`5. El Examiner‘s Amendment/Comment
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`6. [Z Examiner‘s Statement of Reasons for Allowance
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`7. I] Other
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`PTOL-37 (Rev. 08-13)
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`Art Unit: 2652
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`1.
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`This communication is in response to the RCE filed on 8/29/2013 and telephonic
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`interview conducted on 9/9/2013.
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`2.
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`3.
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`Claims 1-4, 6-12 and 14-16 (renumbered as 1-14) are allowed.
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`The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: Claims 1, 9
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`and their dependents thereof are allowed because the closest prior art either alone or in
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`combination, fail to anticipate or render obvious, the claimed limitations of “a networking
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`device connected to a plurality of call processing gateways of a plurality of prison
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`facilities located remotely from the centralized call processing system via a wide area
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`network (WAN), the networking device configured to: receive outgoing Voice over
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`Internet Protocol (VolP) data packets from prison facilities; and send incoming VolP
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`data packets to the prison facilities; an unauthorized call activity detection system
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`connected to the networking device for detecting three-way call activity associated with
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`the outgoing VolP data packets or the incoming VolP data packets via a local area
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`network (LAN); a call application management system connected via the LAN to the
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`networking device for processing the outgoing VolP data packets for transmission to a
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`telephone carrier network, the call application management system processing signals
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`from the telephone carrier network into the incoming VolP data packets; and a
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`validation system connected via the LAN to the call application management system
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`and configured to allow or disallow completion or continuing of a particular call of the
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`plurality of prison facilities through the telephone carrier network based on the outgoing
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`VolP data packets or the incoming VolP data packets”, in combination with all other
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`limitations in the claim(s) as defined by applicant.
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`Consequently, the disclosed independent claims are allowed on behalf of above-
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`discussed reasons, and also presented via Applicants arguments and remarks filed on
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`8/29/2013 as well. Since the disclosed dependent claims are dependent on one of the
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`above independent claims, therefore they are also patentable.
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`Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later
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`than the payment of the i