REVISION CHANGES TO THE IPC DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS

1. REVISION CHANGES TO THE IPC DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS Koichi Matsushita - WIPO February 2010

2. REVISION PROJECTS • A projects (originated from Trilateral Harmony projects)

3. Revision project A014:SELECTIVE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION, e.g. interactive television, VOD [Video On Demand] • New main group under subclass H04N will be created and subdivided into over 150 new subgroups 21/20 • Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof 21/21 •• Server components or server architectures 21/214 ••• Specialised server platform, e.g. server located in an airplane, hotel or hospital 21/218 ••• Source of audio or video content, e.g. local disk arrays 21/2183 •••• Cache memory 21/2187 •••• Live feed 21/222 ••• Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server or cable television Head-end 21/2225 •••• Local VOD servers 21/226 ••• Internal components of the server 21/23 •• Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware 21/231 ••• Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers or prioritizing data for deletion 21/2312 •••• Data placement on disk arrays 21/2315 ••••• using interleaving 21/2318 ••••• using striping 21/232 ••• Content retrieval operation within server, e.g. reading video streams from disk arrays 21/233 ••• Processing of audio elementary streams 21/234 ••• Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs (video encoding or transcoding processes per se H04N 7/26) 21/2343 •••• involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements 21/2347 •••• involving video stream encryption (arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L 9/00; analogue secrecy systems H04N 7/16) 21/235 ••• Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors 21/236 ••• Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, … 21/2362 •••• Generation or processing of SI [Service Information] 21/2365 •••• Multiplexing of several video streams 21/2368 •••• Multiplexing of audio and video streams 21/237 ••• Communication with additional data server 21/238 ••• Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. adapting the transmission rate of a video stream to network bandwidth; Processing of multiplex streams 21/2381 •••• Adapting the multiplex stream to a specific network, e.g. an IP [Internet Protocol] network • • 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television, VOD [Video On Demand] (broadcast communication H04H; arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems for communication control or processing being characterised by a protocol H04L 29/06; real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N 7/14)

4. H04B 1/69 Spread spectrum techniques H04J 13/00 Code division multiplex systems Revision project A027:SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS, e.g. CDMA • Groups H04B 1/69 and H04J 13/00 will be subdivided into around 40 new subgroups 1/692 •• Hybrid techniques using combinations of two or more spread spectrum techniques 1/707 •• using direct sequence modulation 1/7073 ••• Synchronisation aspects 1/7075 •••• with code phase acquisition 1/7077 ••••• Multi-step acquisition, e.g. multi-dwell, coarse-fine or validation 1/708 ••••• Parallel implementation 1/7083 •••• Cell search, e.g. using a three-step approach 1/7085 •••• using a code tracking loop, e.g. a delay-locked loop 1/7087 •••• Carrier synchronisation aspects 1/709 ••• Correlator structure 1/7093 •••• Matched filter type 1/7095 •••• Sliding correlator type 1/7097 ••• Interference-related aspects 1/710 •••• the interference being narrowband interference 1/7103 •••• the interference being multiple access interference 1/7105 ••••• Joint detection techniques, e.g. linear detectors 1/7107 ••••• Subtractive interference cancellation 1/711 •••• the interference being multi-path interference 1/7113 ••••• Determination of path profile 1/7115 ••••• Constructive combining of multi-paths, i.e. RAKE receivers 1/7117 •••••• Selection, re-selection, allocation or re-allocation of paths to fingers, e.g. timing offset control of allocated fingers 1/712 •••••• Weighting of fingers for combining, e.g. amplitude control or phase rotation using an inner loop 1/713 •• using frequency hopping 1/7136 ••• Arrangements for generation of hop frequencies, e.g. using a bank of frequency sources, using continuous tuning or using a transform 1/7143 ••• Arrangements for generation of hop patterns 1/715 ••• Interference-related aspects • • 13/10 • Code generation 13/12 •• Generation of orthogonal codes 13/14 •• Generation of codes with a zero correlation zone 13/16 • Code allocation 13/18 •• Allocation of orthogonal codes 13/20 ••• having an orthogonal variable spreading factor [OVSF] 13/22 •• Allocation of codes with a zero correlation zone

5. 10/00 Administration; Management 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols (apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F 7/08, G07F 19/00; electronic cash registers G07G 1/12) 30/00 Commerce, e.g. shopping or e-commerce 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes 50/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for a specific business sector, e.g. utilities or tourism Revision project A032:BUSINESS METHODS • 5 main groups under subclass G06Q will be subdivided into over 50 new subgroups 10/02 • Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events 10/04 • Forecasting or optimisation, e.g. linear programming, "travelling salesman problem" or "cutting stock problem" 10/06 • Resources, workflows, human or project management, e.g. organising, planning, scheduling or allocating time, human or machine resources; Enterprise planning; Organisational models 10/08 • Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading, distribution or shipping; Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders 10/10 • Office automation, e.g. computer aided management of electronic mail or groupware (electronic mail network systems H04L 12/58; electronic mail protocols H04L 29/06); Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting 20/02 • involving a neutral third party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP] 20/04 • Payment circuits 20/06 •• Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used only among participants of a common payment scheme or money generated by private organisations 20/08 • Payment architectures 20/10 •• specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems 20/12 •• specially adapted for electronic shopping systems 20/14 •• specially adapted for billing systems 20/16 •• Payments settled via telecommunication systems 20/18 •• involving self-service terminals [SSTs], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals 20/20 •• Point-of-sale [POS] network systems 20/22 • Payment schemes or models 20/24 •• Credit schemes, i.e. "pay after" 20/26 •• Debit schemes, i.e. "pay now" 20/28 •• Pre-payment schemes, i.e. "pay before" 20/30 • characterised by the use of specific devices 20/32 •• using wireless devices 20/34 •• using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards 20/36 •• using electronic wallets or electronic money safes 20/38 • Payment protocols; Details thereof 20/40 •• Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check of credit lines or negative lists 20/42 •• Confirmation, e.g. check or permission by the legal debtor of payment 30/02 • Marketing, e.g. market research and analysis, surveying, promotions, advertising, buyer profiling, customer management or rewards; Price estimation or determination 30/04 • Billing or invoicing 30/06 • Buying, selling or leasing transactions 30/08 •• Auctions 50/02 • Agriculture; Fishing; Mining 50/04 • Manufacturing 50/06 • Electricity, gas or water supply 50/08 • Construction 50/10 • Hotels or restaurants 50/12 • Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading, distribution or shipping 50/14 • Transportation; Communications 50/16 •• Travel agencies 50/18 •• Post and telecommunications (franking apparatus G07B 17/00) 50/20 • Services 50/22 •• Real estate 50/24 •• Legal services; Handling legal documents 50/26 •• Education 50/28 •• Health care, e.g. hospitals (processing of medical or biological data for scientific purposes G06F 19/00) ; Social work 50/30 ••• Patient record management 50/32 •• Government or public services 50/34 • Betting or bookmaking; e.g. Internet betting 40/02 • Banking, e.g. interest calculation, credit approval, mortgages, home banking or on-line banking 40/04 • Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange 40/06 • Investment, e.g. financial instruments, portfolio management or fund management 40/08 • Insurance, e.g. risk analysis or pensions

6. REVISION PROJECTS • C projects

7. Revision project C452:NANO-TECHNOLOGY IPC/WG21 (June 2009) • Note defining "nano-size" and "nano-structure" under class B82 was approved. • "nano-size" or "nano-scale" relate to a controlled geometrical size below 100 nanometres (nm) in one or more dimensions • "nano-structure" means an entity having at least one nano-sized functional component that makes physical, chemical or biological properties or effects available, which are uniquely attributable to the nano-scale

8. Revision project C452:NANO-TECHNOLOGY IPC/WG21 (June 2009) • New subclass B82Y was created • to collect in one place, readily visible to all users, all art related to nano-technology • to serve for serching, in combination with classfication symbols, nano-technology aspects in places where subdivisions relating to nano-technology are not explicit

9. 5/00 Nano-biotechnology or nano-medicine, e.g. protein engineering or drug delivery 10/00 Nano-technology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic 15/00 Nano-technology for interacting, sensing or actuating, e.g. quantum dots as markers in protein assays or molecular motors 20/00 Nano-optics, e.g. quantum optics or photonic crystals 25/00 Nano-magnetism, e.g. magnetoimpedance, anisotropic magnetoresistance, giant magnetoresistance or tunneling magnetoresistance 30/00 Nano-technology for materials or surface science, e.g. nano-composites 35/00 Methods or apparatus for measurement or analysis of nano-structures 40/00 Manufacture or treatment of nano-structures 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass Revision project C452:NANO-TECHNOLOGY • New main groups covering nano-technology applications were approved

10. Revision project C456:Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST) IPC/CE41 (February 2009) • New Revision Project in the area of "Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST)" was created IPC/WG21 (June 2009) • Two approaches were proposed and comments were invited • Creation of a complete list of entries in the Catchword Index (CI) under the term "EST" • Creation of a new Indexing Scheme

11. Revision project C456:Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST) IPC/WG22 (November 2009) • Agreed to provide a list of IPC places in the Catchword Index (CI) where EST are likely to be found • Separate publication of the CI list with references of EST places in the IPC, in a readily-accessible manner

12. <Example> Revision project C456:Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST) • Consolidated proposal for a list of IPC places in the CI will be prepared for June 2010

13. MAINTENANCE PROJECTS • Correction of titles or hierarchal structure which do not necessitate reclassification of patent documents • Systematic corrections or introduction of new features in the IPC • Removal of non-limiting references • Introduction of residual main groups etc.

14. DEFINITION PROJECTS • New or amended definitions needed for revision projects will be provided • Approximately 40 new definitions will be provided during the next two years

15. SUMMARY • New and revised scheme will enter into force to accommodate new technology and thereby facilitate access to the patent documents and improve search efficiency • New and amended definitions needed for revision projects will be provided • IP5 projects will be the driving force behind the future IPC revison

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