SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. GRANTED PATENT FOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is known all over the world for its customer and industrial electronic products including semiconductors, computers, peripherals, monitors, televisions, and domestic gadgets including air conditioners and microwave ovens. Its business additionally offers Internet access networks and telecommunications gadgets like mobile phones.

In India, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focuses on method and apparatus for outputting audio data in a flexible electronic device including a plurality of speakers, method and user equipment apparatus for optimizing radio resource for URLLC services in dual connectivity technology, and laser beam phase-modulation device, laser beam steering device and laser beam steering system including the same.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. filed a patent application numbered 2738/DEL/2014 that is titled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The patent has been filed in the field of Communication. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 353214. This invention relates to a method in a system and method for rendering supplementary information of a called party to a calling party is disclosed. The method includes parsing a webpage. Further, the method includes generating at least one logical field marker on the webpage. The method includes identifying supplementary information and storing the supplementary information in a phonebook contact. Further, the method includes rendering the supplementary information to the calling party at the instance of establishing a connection with the called party.

During the Patent Examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act, 1970 (as amended). It was pointed out that the subject matter as claimed in claims are not allowable as all the features or steps claimed lack technical matter and only amount to the use of the processor for execution of the algorithm/ computer program.

As a response, the Applicant submitted that the claimed invention is performed by employing hardware structural components such as Random number generator, display, storage, controller, webpage parser, LFM generator, electronic device, memory, clock, IO devices, processing unit, networking device, etc. for the implementation of the invention and the same are amply supported in the complete specification.

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