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The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent

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EXAMINER'S AMENDMENT

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submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee.

Authorization for this examiner's amendment was given in a telephone interview

with John Curtin on Friday September 26, 2014.

The application has been amended as follows:

In the claims:

1. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 12 further comprising:

monitoring a presence status of a client device associated with the user; and

maintaining an on-line gaining session on behalf of the user even when the status

indicates the client device is inactive.

2. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 1 further comprising forwarding

messages to the client device when the client device is active, wherein the messages

were received when the client device was inactive.

3. (Canceled).

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4. (Original) The method as in claim 2 wherein the messages are forwarded

wirelessly.

5. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 1 further comprising collecting

presence status information concerning the one or more third party users even when

the client device is inactive.

6. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 1 further comprising forwarding

messages to the client device in order to update one or more indicators, wherein at

least one of the indicators is associated with presence status information of the one or

more third party users.

7. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 12 further comprising:

forwarding the request from the client device, to initiate an on-line gaining session, to a

proxy agent; and receiving messages at the client device from the proxy agent during

an active presence state, wherein the messages were originally received by the agent

when the client device was inactive.

8. (Canceled).

9. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 7 further comprising

exchanging signaling messages between the client device and the proxy agent using

short binary messages.

10. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 7 wherein the request is

forwarded wirelessly from the client device to the proxy agent.

11. (Previously Presented) The method as in claim 7 further comprising receiving

one or more messages from the agent at the client device, wherein at least one of the

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messages is used to update at least one indicator associated with presence status

information of the one or more third party users.

12. (Currently Amended) A method for forming one or more groups associated

with one or more online gaining sessions comprising:

receiving one or more identities of one or more third party users;

determining the availability of the identified third party users;

comparing profiles of the identified and available third party users, with attributes

of a request to initiate an online gaining session of a game by a user, to determine the

gaining skill level of the third party users;

forming a gaining group containing those third party users that are not currently

involved in a gaining session of the game, and have the substantially same gaining skill

level as that required by the request from the compared, identified and available users

along with the user that initiated the request; [[and]]

further comprising:

initiating the online gaining session of the game for the formed gaining group;

forwarding requirements of the request on to a third party lobby to identify the

third party users that satisfy the request; and

receiving an identification of each third party user that satisfies the request.

13. (Canceled).

14. (Currently Amended) The method as in claim 12 further comprising:

fofwafdtna requirements of the reefcrest on to a third party lobby to identify tho

third party usors that satisfy tho request:

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reeeiwia an idontification of each thireHeartv-usor that-safeties-tfre-peeaeeti-aed

forming the gaining group containing those third party users that are not currently

involved in a gaining session of the game, and

satisfy the request along with the user that initiated the request.

15. (Canceled).

16. (Canceled).

17. (Canceled).

18. (Canceled).

19. (Canceled).

20. (Canceled).

21. (Canceled).

22. (Canceled).

23. (Canceled).

24. (Canceled).

25. (Canceled).

26. (Currently Amended) A system for forming one or more groups associated

with one or more online gaining sessions comprising:

a memory storing instructions to implement a lobby, the lobby operable to

receive one or more identities of one or more third party users;

determine the availability of the identified third party users;

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compare profiles of the identified and available third party users, with attributes of

a request to initiate an online gaining session of a game by a user, to determine the

gaining skill level of the third party users;

form a gaining group containing those third party users that are not currently

involved in a gaining session of the game, and have the substantially same gaining skill

level as that required by the request from the compared, identified and available users

along with the user that initiated the request; [[and]]

initiate the online gaining session of the game for the formed gaining group;

further comprising:

forward requirements of the request on to a third party lobby to identify the third

party users that satisfy the request: and

receive an identification of each third party user that satisfies the request.

27. (Currently Amended) The system as in claim 26 wherein the memory

comprises instructions further operable to:

ferward roquiromonts of tho roquost on to a third party lobby to identify tho third

party-usefs4kat-safefy4^

rocoivo an identification of oach third party usor that satisfies tho roquost; and

form the gaining group containing those third party users that are not currently

involved in a gaining session of the game, and satisfy the request along with the user

that initiated the request.

28. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 26 further comprising: a proxy

agent, the agent operable to monitor a presence status of a client device associated

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with the user; and maintain an on-line gaining session on behalf of the user even when

the status indicates the client device is inactive.

29. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 28, wherein the proxy agent is

further operable to forward messages to the client device when the client device is

active, wherein the messages were received when the client device was inactive.

30. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 29, wherein the messages are

forwarded wirelessly.

31. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 28, wherein the proxy agent is

further operable to collect presence status information concerning the one or more third

party users even when the client device is inactive.

32. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 28, wherein the proxy agent is

further operable to forward messages to the client device in order to update one or more

indicators, wherein at least one of the indicators is associated with presence status

information of the one or more third party users.

33. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 26 further comprising: a client

device, the device operable to forward the request to a proxy agent; and

receive messages from the proxy agent during an active presence state, wherein

the messages were originally received by the agent when the client device was inactive.

34. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 33, wherein the device is

further operable to exchange signaling messages with the proxy agent using short

binary messages.

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35. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 33, wherein the device is

operable to forward the request wirelessly to the proxy agent.

36. (Previously Presented) The system as in claim 33, wherein the device is

further operable to receive one or more messages from the agent, wherein at least one

of the messages is used to update at least one indicator associated with presence

status information of the one or more third party users.

Allowable Subject Matter

Claims 1-2, 4-7, 9-12, 14, 26-36 are allowed.

The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: the prior art

of record fails to teach or suggest identifying the third party users by sending the

request through a third party lobby as recited in the claims. The closest prior art of

record fails to teach or suggest a third party lobby identifies the third party users, see

specifically references "C" and "D" of the attached PTO-892.

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