Application No. 14/670,307
`Reply to Office Action Dated November 17, 2016
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`REMARKS
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`The examiner is thanked for the clearly stated action and for conducting an
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`interview on January 12, 2017. The present amendment is filed in response to the final Office
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`Action mailed November 17, 2016, and under a Request for Continued Examination (RCE)
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`concurrently filed herewith. Claims 10-11, 13-15, 18-19, 21-23 and 28-37 were pending, of
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`which claims 10, 11, 18 and 19 are independent.
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`In the present amendment, applicant has amended independent claims 10, 11, 18
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`and 19, to more particularly recite the subject matter that applicant considers as their invention.
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`Applicant has amended dependent claims 13-15, 21-23 and 30-37 for consistency with the
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`amendments made to their base claims, and added new dependent claims 38-45. No new matter
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`has been added.
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`Claims 10, 11, 18 and 19, as amended, now recite that the monitoring camera [or
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`the sensor], when detecting a malfunction state of the monitoring camera [or the sensor],
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`transmits a malfunction detection signal to the master device. The master device transmits
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`notification information, generated based on the malfunction detection signal, to a smartphone
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`to display a warning screen. The master device, when receiving a request from the smartphone,
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`"transmit[s] detailed information about the malfunction detection signal including a suspected
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`reason for the malfunction state of the monitoring camera [or the sensor] to the smartphone for
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`display. "
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`Reply to Office Action Dated November 17, 2016
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`REMARKS
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`The examiner is thanked for the clearly stated action and for conducting an
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`interview on January 12, 2017. The present amendment is filed in response to the final Office
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`Action mailed November 17, 2016, and under a Request for Continued Examination (RCE)
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`concurrently filed herewith. Claims 10-11, 13-15, 18-19, 21-23 and 28-37 were pending, of
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`which claims 10, 11, 18 and 19 are independent.
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`In the present amendment, applicant has amended independent claims 10, 11, 18
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`and 19, to more particularly recite the subject matter that applicant considers as their invention.
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`Applicant has amended dependent claims 13-15, 21-23 and 30-37 for consistency with the
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`amendments made to their base claims, and added new dependent claims 38-45. No new matter
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`has been added.
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`Claims 10, 11, 18 and 19, as amended, now recite that the monitoring camera [or
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`the sensor], when detecting a malfunction state of the monitoring camera [or the sensor],
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`transmits a malfunction detection signal to the master device. The master device transmits
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`notification information, generated based on the malfunction detection signal, to a smartphone
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`to display a warning screen. The master device, when receiving a request from the smartphone,
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`"transmit[s] detailed information about the malfunction detection signal including a suspected
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`reason for the malfunction state of the monitoring camera [or the sensor] to the smartphone for
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`display. "
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`Application No. 14/670,307
`Reply to Office Action Dated November 17, 2016
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`For example, as shown in an example illustrated in FIG. 12 of the application
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`reproduced above, the monitoring camera, when detecting a malfunction state of the monitoring
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`camera, transmits a malfunction detection signal to the master device. The master device
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`transmits notification information, generated based on the malfunction detection signal, to a
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`smartphone to display a warning screen of D1 and/or D2 above, wherein warning screen D1
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`indicates that a device type "CAMERA" has detected a malfunction state, and warning screen D2
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`indicates which one ("Camera 1" in the illustrated example) of multiple cameras has detected the
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`malfunction state. The master device, in response to a request received from the smartphone
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`(e.g., a user tapping on the smartphone), transmits detailed information about the malfunction
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`detection signal including a suspected reason for the malfunction state of the monitoring camera
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`to the smartphone for display. For example, detailed information screen D3 displays "Cold
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`Alert" (low temperature) as a suspected reason for the malfunction state detected in the outdoor
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`monitoring camera.
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`Applicant has reviewed the prior art and submits that none teaches or suggests the
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`subject matter now explicitly recited in each of claims 10, 11, 18 and 19.
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`In a telephone call on February 6, 2017, the Examiner indicated US. Patent
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`Application Publication No. 2008/0098068 (Ebata) as of potential relevance. Applicant has
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`reviewed Ebata and respectfully submits that Ebata fails to teach or suggest the subject matter
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`now explicitly recited in claims 10, 11 18 and 19. Ebata describes displaying "[t]he sensor alarm
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`viewer 142-2 shown in FIG. 12
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`responsive to receipt of alarm information [e.g., a fire or
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`illegal invasion] from the camera control device 30 or sensor control device 40." Ebata,
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`111l[0023] &[0072]. "The head off1cer 12" then may select "Communication Now" on a screen
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`"to send a message with its content of 'Report a present situation' toward every under-
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`management subject." Ebata, 11[0073]. "After having sent this message, the present situations as
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`sent from respective under-management subjects are displayed on the monitor 14" such as a
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`temperature measured by a temperature sensor or a camera-captured video image and
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`information. Ebata, 11[0074]. As such, Ebata does not teach that a monitoring camera or a
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`sensor, when detecting a malfunction state of the monitoring camera or the sensor, transmits a
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`malfunction detection signal to the master device. Ebata further fails to teach or suggest that the
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`master device transmits notification information, generated based on the malfi/nction detection
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`signal, to a smartphone to display a warning screen. Ebata still further fails to teach or suggest
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`that the master device, when receiving a request from the smartphone, "transmit[s] detailed
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`information about the malfunction detection signal including a suspected reason for the
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`malfunction state of the monitoring camera [or the sensor] to the smartphone for display."
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`The rest of the claims depend from one of claims 10, 11, 18 and 19 and, thus,
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`these dependent claims are further believed to be allowable for at least the reasons why their
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`respective base clams are allowable.
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`Application No. 14/670,307
`Reply to Office Action Dated November 17, 2016
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`Closing
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`The present application including claims 10-11, 13-15, 18-19, 21-23 and 28-45, as
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`amended, is now believed to be in condition for allowance. Favorable consideration and a
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`Notice of Allowance are earnestly solicited.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`SEED Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
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`/Shoko Leek/
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`Shoko I. Leek
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