13686723 - (D) (P.T.A.B. Jun. 28, 2019)

Ex Parte Kwon

Patent Trials and Appeals BoardJun 28, 2019

13686723 - (D) (P.T.A.B. Jun. 28, 2019)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE 13/686,723 11/27/2012 74365 7590 07/02/2019 Slater Matsil, LLP/HW/FW/HWC 17950 Preston Road, Suite 1000 Dallas, TX 75252 FIRST NAMED INVENTOR Young Hoon Kwon UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www .uspto.gov ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO. HW 83584917US01 7943 EXAMINER BEUTEL, WILLIAM A ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER 2616 NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 07/02/2019 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the following e-mail address(es): uspatent@huawei.com docketing@slatermatsil.com PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07) UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte YOUNG HOON KWON Appeal2018-006086 1 Application 13/686,723 Technology Center 2600 Before BRADLEY W. BAUMEISTER, JAMES B. ARPIN, and NABEEL U. KHAN, Administrative Patent Judges. ARPIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellant2 appeals under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 134(a) the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-2, 5-11, 13-17, and 19-32, all of the pending claims. Final Act. 1. Claims 3, 4, 12, and 18 are cancelled. RCE 2--4 (filed May 15, 2017). We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 6(b). We affirm. 1 In this Decision, we refer to Appellant's Appeal Brief ("App. Br.," filed February 13, 2018); the Final Office Action ("Final Act.," mailed October 17, 2017); the Examiner's Answer ("Ans.," mailed March 26, 2018); and the originally-filed Specification ("Spec.," filed November 27, 2012). Rather than repeat the Examiner's findings and determinations, and Appellant's contentions, in their entirety, we refer to these documents. 2 Appellant asserts Futurewei Technologies, Inc., is the real party-in- interest. App. Br. 2. Appeal2018-006086 Application 13/686,723 STATEMENT OF THE CASE Appellant's recited mobile devices, methods, and computer-readable media relate to "automatically display[ing] the applications that correspond to the environment of the mobile device 10 on the homescreen when the screen is unlocked or the mobile device 10 is turned on. As such, the mobile device 10 presents to the user with the most appropriate or desirable applications when the user is first greeted with the homescreen." Spec. ,r 13, Fig. 1. Environmental sensors in mobile device 10 [ m ]easure[] or sense[] the parameters of the environment while the mobile device is unlocked or actively being used. Such parameters include, but are not limited to, a location of the mobile device 10, a current time, a schedule, whether a different mobile device is nearby, the movement of the mobile device 10, and combinations thereof. Id. ,r 29 ( emphasis added). Appellant's Figure 2, as annotated by the panel, is reproduced below: flG,2 2 I: fl :sec'lCt : L~ Â·l~~. : 1 r::l L:J >,r,rnOOj(< ~~CfR.."