Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson produces and manufactures network tools and software, including services for network and business functions. The Company’s strategy further develops goods for the enterprise, cable, mobile platform, and power module domain.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) filed a patent application numbered 2443/DELNP/2011 that is titled PROVIDING ACCESS TO A GPRS NETWORK. The patent has been filed in the field of Communication. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 357010. This invention relates to methods and devices for providing device access to a General Packet Radio Service, GPRS, network is described. The GPRS network comprises a control node for controlling the access. The control node performs the steps of receiving a service request from the device, the service request comprising a device identifier, obtaining a group profile comprising a group identifier identifying a plurality of devices, selecting the group profile for serving the device, if the device identifier corresponds to the group identifier, and establishing a connection based on the group profile in accordance with the service request.
During the patent examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(k) of the Indian Patent Act, 1970. The subject matter of the claims does not define any structural features of the computer-program apparatus rather they define computer instructions. These instructions are nothing but computer programs per se.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that the subject claims have been withdrawn and incorporated further structural limitations in other claims to address the objection.
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