Recently, an invention patent application under the engagement of Guangdong Junlong Law Firm has been authorized through the rapid granting. It took less than 3 months from patent application to patent granting, which fully reflects the integration effect of high-quality patents and high-quality patent review.
This patent involves a home access method, which is a use scenario of digital information technology in the field of property management. As shown in the figure below, the relationship is mainly established between the shooting terminal, the cloud server and the communication terminal of the visitor through image collection, image processing and information transmission, making the daily management behavior of home visit accurate and efficiency, helping reduce costs.
The full process from patent application to authorization reflects the following characteristics:
In the writing stage
The first characteristic is to seize key innovation points. In terms of the inventive concept, this application uses separate implementation entities for information processing and transmission, and uses mature commercial parts, without additional hardware costs, with strong applicability and low implementation cost; in terms of technology the shooting terminal solves the problem of accuracy and clarity, the cloud server solves the problem of image recognition to accurate mapping of floor information, and the communication terminal of the visitor solves the problem of efficient transmission and effective feedback.
The second characteristic is to do a good job in protection layout and graphic presentation. Each claim has both additional limitations and progressive limitations, so as to make the scope of protection as wide as possible and at the same time reflect substantive innovations. The graphic descriptions in the description fully reflect the logical connections between the various embodiments, clearly explain the concepts, detaily describe the technical solutions, rationally explain the technical effects, and standardize the drawings.
In the prior examination stage
Firstly, it is necessary to fully understand the various requirements for patent prior examination of the Intellectual Property Protection Center where the patent applicant is located. It falls within the technical field of rapid patent examination and has the qualifications for rapid prior examination.
secondly, we need to be fully familiar with the various processes of rapid prior examination, master the various operations of the prior examination information system, strictly control the form of prior examination documents, ensure that there are no additional errors in document conversion, and complete payment in a timely manner.
Thirdly, we need to actively respond to the substantive issues raised in the prior examination, not only to revise the issues pointed out, but also to simultaneously check whether there are other undiscovered issues, and to complete all revisions at once as much as possible.
In review stage
This patent application has been issued two review opinions, both of which were considered to be non-inventive. The opinions on this application mainly include:
Firstly, the inventive concept of this application has been fully explained, and a comprehensive comparative analysis has been conducted with the comparative documents. It has been concluded that in terms of raising technical issues, selecting technical solutions, and realizing technical effects, it was difficult to combine the comparative documents to produce the inventive concept of this application.
Secondly we have provided a targeted defense against the erroneous views in the review opinions. For example, the comparison document 1 discloses a method for counting the living conditions of residents in residential buildings, which is not the same as the method of home visits in this application, and is not necessarily related with the method of home visits in this application.
Thirdly we have further explained the innovative content of this application. For example, bright window recognition and floor recognition are based on the same building exterior wall, and two images taken under different exposure conditions are processed separately, and then superimposed and synthesized to obtain a hybrid recognition map.
During the review process, we also had full telephone communication with the examiner to explain our views and argue our case, and finally reached an agreement and obtained the patent application.
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