This Patent Application received a non-final rejection by the US Patent Office! The rejection was based in part on prior art found by Ask Patents community in this answer!
Examination has not begun, USPTO hasn't conducted search yet (or published search results) and therefore claims have not been amended by applicant in response to what will probably be a non-final rejection as first USPTO action.
Indeed, a very quick search reveals the following prior art:
- US 8,099,406 Lee (filed 03.01.2011)
All elements of Claim 1 are predated by Lee, which teaches a method for editorial curation of search results (Method for human editing of information in search results [title]), comprising steps of:
- using a processor device configured to perform: receiving a search results page rendered in response to a search query; (result items may be returned as a result of the search. [abstract])
- receiving user edits comprising changes to objects in the search results page; (The user may enter new human edited information for some of the result items. [abstract])
- and applying the user edits to the search results page. (The new human edited information may be displayed when other users search and view some of the result items at a later time [abstract]).
Lee was granted, but granted Claim 1 is much narrower.
