Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 9609544, I need to access the "Cited By" section of the patent within the USPTO database. Since I cannot directly perform a live search of the USPTO database with real-time results and extract specific "Cited By" information as a human would, I will explain the general process for how this would be done and what information would be sought.

Process for Identifying Prior Art:

1. Access USPTO Patent Public Search: I would use the USPTO Patent Public Search tool (or similar databases like Google Patents) and specifically search for "US96095944".
2. Locate "Cited By" References: Once the patent record for US9609544 is found, I would navigate to the section that lists "Cited By" patents and other references. These are the documents that the patent examiner and/or the applicant identified as relevant prior art during the prosecution of the patent application.
3. Extract Information for Each Reference: For each listed prior art reference, I would extract the following:
   • Full citation (e.g., patent number, publication number, or other identifier, along with inventor/assignee and title if available).
   • Publication/Filing Date.
   • A brief description of the invention/disclosure in the prior art.
   • An analysis of which claims (from US9609544) are potentially anticipated under 35 U.S.C. § 102 by the prior art. This would involve comparing the elements of US9609544's claims against the disclosures of each prior art document.

Explanation of Anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102:

Under 35 U.S.C. § 102, a claim is anticipated if every element of the claim is found, either explicitly or inherently, in a single prior art reference. The prior art must disclose the claimed invention such that a person of ordinary skill in the art could have made the invention from that single reference.

Since I cannot execute the live USPTO database search, I cannot provide the specific list of prior art citations and their detailed analysis. The Google Patents link provided in the prompt's authoritative patent text does show a "Prior art date" of 2009-01-28 and lists "Prior art keywords" such as "network", "service", "qos", "service usage", and "policy". This indicates the general technical area in which prior art would be found, but it does not provide the specific citations.

To fulfill the request, a human analyst would perform the steps outlined above using the USPTO's Patent Public Search tool.