101 Rejection Reference Database – Art Unit 3696

Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License & Review

Examiner: Patel, Amit Hemantkumar

Patent AssigneePatent Application
Visa International Service Association15/185949

Token aggregation for multi-party transactions

Patent Abstract

Described herein is a system for generating a master token to be associated with a set of tokens. In some embodiments, a number of tokens may be obtained by a communication device, which may be provided to a primary authorization computer. The primary authorization computer may generate a master token to be associated with each of those tokens. When the master token is used to complete a transaction, an authorization request may be received by the primary authorization computer that includes the master token. Upon receiving this, the primary authorization computer may obtain approval from a number of secondary authorization computers associated with the tokens, and may generate an authorization response based on those approvals.

Reason for 101 Rejection | CTFR 5/14/2020

The Examiner alleges that the claimed invention is directed to a judicial exception of certain methods of organizing human activity. Using various tokens associated with multiple users and their payment accounts to carry out the transaction is not patent eligible subject matter. Further, the claims do not include limitations that integrate the abstract idea into a practical application other than being applied on a computer. All additional elements are specified at a high level of generality to simply implement the abstract idea and are not themselves being technologically improved.

Remarks on Overcoming the 101 Rejection | REM 3/18/2021

In response to the Applicants appeal brief the prior 101 rejection is withdrawn since the instant claims recite additional features and/or elements that integrate the abstract idea into a practical application of the abstract idea. The claim limitations provide an improvement over the prior system in that a single master token can carry out a transaction amongst a group of people, ensuring that only one payment method is required at the point of sale. Thus the claim is eligible because the claims as a whole integrates an abstract idea into a practical application.

Examiner: Patel, Amit Hemantkumar

Patent AssigneePatent Application
Salesforce16/557605

Payments platform, method and system for a cloud computing platform

Patent Abstract

A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The payment gateways that include a particular payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant databasesystem that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating each of the payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.

Reason for 101 Rejection | CTNF 10/1/2020

The examiner alleges that the claimed invention is directed to certain methods of organizing human activity without significantly more. Here, the additional elements, such as:“cloud computing platform” and “module” do not amount to an innovative concept since, as stated above in the step 2A, Prong 2 analysis, the claims are simply using the additional elements as a tool to carry out the abstract idea (i.e., “apply if) on a computer or computing device and/or via software programming. Limitations of the claims merely recite generic computer components at such a high level as to merely use the computer as a tool to carry out the abstract idea.

Remarks on Overcoming the 101 Rejection | REM 1/15/2021

The claims recite a practical application to any alleged judicial exception as they are similar to Example 2, 34, and 42 as described in MPEP Sections 2103 through 2106.07(c). For example, the payment platform module enables clients of the system to perform payment transactions using the plurality of different respective payment gateways via the platform module of the cloud computing platform. Particularly the payment gateway adapters translate the payment APIs of the respective payments into the gateway APIs of the cloud computing platform so that they are compatible. Therefore, the claims demonstrate a solution to a technical problem by providing practical application to enable a technical advantage.

Examiner: Patel, Amit Hemantkumar

Patent AssigneePatent Application
Samsung15/415845

System and method for secure personal information retrieval

Patent Abstract

A transaction method using an electronic device. The method comprises detecting, during an online transaction, one or more fields capable of being automatically filled by the electronic device, the one or more fields associated with the online transaction. The method further comprises obtaining, using a sensor, biometric information of a user of the electronic device, and verifying an identity of the user of the electronic device based on the obtained biometric information. Additionally, the method includes, in response to verifying the identity of the user of the electronic device based on the obtained biometric information: identifying personal information of the user to be automatically filled into the one or more fields based on the verified identity, and inserting the identified personal information into the one or more fields for the online transaction.

Reason for 101 Rejection | CTNF 11/27/2020

The claim recites the abstract idea of verifying the identity of a user on an electronic device and transferring personal information of the user from said electronic device to various fields during an online transaction. This amounts to certain methods of organizing human activity including fundamental economic practices. Additional elements of the claims do not amount to an innovative concept since the claims are simply using the additional elements as a tool to carry out the abstract idea on a computer.

Remarks on Overcoming the 101 Rejection | REM 2/26/2021

The claims as amended are not directed to an abstract idea since the claim recites a transaction method using an electronic device. Applicant notes that no art rejection has been presented and the only remaining rejection of the independent claims is under 101, and that the Applicant is denied sufficient notice of the reasons of ineligibility in order to effectively respond. No such explanation was provided as to why the claims are an abstract idea. The Office Action has not shown how an electronic device, in response to a biometric input by the user, retrieving information from a database and electronically auto-filling multiple fields of an online electronic form is a fundamental economic activity.

Examiner: Patel, Amit Hemantkumar

Patent AssigneePatent Application
Paypal16/021946

Systems and methods for providing tokenization services at a mobile device

Patent Abstract

A method is provided that includes assigning one or more first records of a first table and one or more second records of a second table to corresponding range groups of a plurality of range groups. The method further includes comparing at least one record of the first table with at least one record of the second table, where the at least one record of the first table and the at least one record of the second table are assigned to a first range group of the plurality of range groups. The method also includes, based on the comparing, identifying a parent record and a child record and segmenting the parent record based on the child record. Further, the method includes subsequent to the segmenting the parent record, performing a join operation on the first table and the second table.

Reason for 101 Rejection | CTNF 9/1/2020

The claims recite the abstract idea of generating, storing, and sending to a user a random digital key associated with a user’s account number in order to facilitate a secure payment transaction. The claims do not include limitations that integrate the abstract idea into a practical application, since the recited features of the abstract idea are being applied on a computer or computing device that is simply being used as a tool to implement the abstract idea.

Remarks on Overcoming the 101 Rejection | REM 12/1/2020

During the examiner interview claim amendments were discussed that would enable claims to overcome the 101 rejection. The claims have been updated to recite a data storage device with a non-transitory computer medium that inputs an account number to a transformation function that outputs a hash and then identifies the account number during payment using a reverse transformation function. Additional elements such as identifying a memory address range of the data storage device and overwriting memory address range with randomly generated data that is different from the account number also contributes to eligibility of the amended claims.