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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
RESPONSE TO ARGUMENTS
Applicant's arguments with respect to the amendment filed 12/01/2025 have been considered but are considered moot on grounds of arguments presented.
As to applicant arguments to Claim 1, “Further, Yumin merely teaches how deal with a situation when an indication information for beam changing process is received during a recovery process of beam failure being triggered after a beam failure event is detected, that is, how to determine which process should be proceeded first, but Yumin is silent on how to determine the beam failure reporting mode, like the present application, receiving the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station.”
The claim limitation does not mention “how to determine the beam failure reporting mode “The limitation is ->wherein the receiving the indication signaling for the beam failure reporting mode from the base station comprises one of: receiving the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station
Yumin teaches in Page 3 para 7, To ensure the transmission performance of the system, the network device sends the indication information of the changed beam to the terminal, so that the terminal transmits the information through the beam with better quality. When the terminal fails to detect the current service beam failure, the terminal initiates a beam failure recovery process.
Here ”Terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device is the indication for BFR message sent by network to terminal of a change in beam process. In rejection, the mapping is as follows- information =message and detect the current service beam failure= mode .
This indication is sent prior to BFR- page 3 para 7- the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device before the beam failure recovery process ends, the terminal may follow the pre- The processing mode determines the processing of the beam failure recovery process and the process of changing the beam process to avoid the loss of data transmission.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1-3,6,7,10,22-24,30,39,40,41,43,44 are rejected as being unpatentable over by Guo et al. (US20190190582A1) in view of Yumin et al. (CN110392427A)
Regarding Claim 1,Guo teaches, A beam failure recovery method, comprising: determining, by a User Equipment (UE), a target reporting mode for beam failure of a first secondary cell (SCell); and in a case that the UE detects that beam failure occurs to the first SCell, reporting information of beam failure recovery to a base station by using the target reporting mode, [421]- the UE can report N2 bits in beam failure recovery request(=determining, by a User Equipment (UE)) UCI to report (1)(= a target reporting mode for beam failure) which Scell(s) have beam failure (2) and one RS ID as the new candidate beam to the serving gNB.
[424]- For a first Scell with uplink band, a UE may be configured with PRACH resource in that uplink band for the UE to transmit beam failure recovery request of a first Scell(=first secondary cell). [418]- In one example, a UE can send beam failure recovery request UCI in a PUCCH at slot n and in the UCI, the UE reports the beam failure ( = target reporting mode) of Scells a1, a2 and a3.
wherein the information of beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to the first SCell, and candidate beam information, or the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information. [421]- the UCI bits (=information) can be partitioned into two part: part 1 has N2_1 bits to indicate which Scell(s) have beam failure (=beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to the first Scell) and part 2 has N2_2 to indicate one RS ID as new candidate beam (=the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information). In part 1, each bit can be used to indicate the beam failure of an associated Scell.
Guo does not teach, wherein the method further comprises: receiving an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station receiving the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station
Yumin teaches, wherein the method further comprises: receiving an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station; page 4 para 6-the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device,
wherein the receiving the indication signaling for the beam failure reporting mode from the base station comprises one of:
receiving the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station; page 4 para 6the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, wherein the method further comprises:receiving an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station receiving the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 2, Guo does not teach, The method according to claim 1, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station by using the target reporting mode comprises at least one of:
reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)
Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 1, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station by using the target reporting mode comprises at least one of: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)
page 4 para 7- if the terminal stops the beam failure recovery process, the terminal may send control information indicating the beam failure to the network device. The control information is a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH),
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, The method according to claim 1, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station by using the target reporting mode further comprises: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 3, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station by using the target reporting mode, comprises at least one of:
reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station on the first SCell; and/or reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station on a first cell corresponding to the first SCell and used for performing beam failure recovery [421]- In one embodiment, the UE can report N2 bits in beam failure recovery request UCI to report (1) which Scell(s) have beam failure (2) and one RS ID as the new candidate beam to the serving gNB. The UCI bits can be partitioned into two part: part 1 has N2_1 bits to indicate which Scell(s) have beam failure and part 2 has N2_2 to indicate one RS ID as new candidate beam.
Regarding Claim 6, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 5, wherein the information of beam failure recovery comprises reference signal indication information corresponding to a candidate beam. see [33]
Regarding Claim 7, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 2, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUSCH based on the configured grant, comprises: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Media Access Control-Control Element (MAC-CE);[465]- Thus during the beam failure recovery, it may be asked that the UE to update the Tx beam for uplink PUSCH transmission to be a default beam which is known by both UE and the gNB so that proper uplink transmission can be achieved. [423]- If a UE is not configured with PUCCH resource for reporting beam failure recovery request of Scell, the UE may use MAC-CE message to report the beam failure event and/or associated information (for example the ID of newly identified Tx beam) to the serving gNB.
Regarding Claim 10, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 3, wherein the determining the target reporting mode for beam failure of the first SCell, comprises at least one of:
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether beam failure occurs to a second cell corresponding to the first SCell and used for performing beam failure recovery;[425]- For a second Scell without uplink band (i.e., a second Scell is a downlink-only carrier), a UE may use a MAC-CE message to transmit the beam failure recovery request message for a second Scell.
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether the base station transmits an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode; [421]- In one embodiment, the UE can report N2 bits in beam failure recovery request UCI to report (1) which Scell(s) have beam failure (2) and one RS ID as the new candidate beam to the serving gNB.
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to an indication signaling, transmitted by the base station, for a beam failure reporting mode; [421]- The UCI bits can be partitioned into two part: part 1 has N2_1 bits to indicate which Scell(s) have beam failure and part 2 has N2_2 to indicate one RS ID as new candidate beam.
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to priorities of predefined beam failure reporting modes; or determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether the base station configures an associated PRACH resource for performing beam failure recovery for the first SCell.[424]- a scheme of reporting beam failure recovery request is determined for a Scell based on whether the Scell has uplink band or not. For a first Scell with uplink band, a UE may be configured with PRACH resource in that uplink band for the UE to transmit beam failure recovery request of a first Scell.
Regarding Claim 10, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 3, wherein the determining the target reporting mode for beam failure of the first SCell, comprises at least one of:
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether the first SCell supports an uplink
Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 3, wherein the determining the target reporting mode for beam failure of the first SCell, comprises at least one of:
determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether the first SCell supports an uplink; page 4 para 6the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device.It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, The method according to claim 3, wherein the determining the target reporting mode for beam failure of the first SCell, comprises at least one of: determining the target reporting mode for beam failure according to whether the first SCell supports an uplink to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 22, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, A beam failure recovery method, comprising: detecting, by a base station, information of beam failure recovery reported by a User Equipment (UE), wherein the information of beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to a first secondary cell (SCell), and[421]- the UE can report N2 bits in beam failure recovery request(=determining, by a User Equipment (UE)) UCI to report (1)(= a target reporting mode for beam failure) which Scell(s) have beam failure (2) and one RS ID as the new candidate beam to the serving gNB.
[424]- For a first Scell with uplink band, a UE may be configured with PRACH resource in that uplink band for the UE to transmit beam failure recovery request of a first Scell(=first secondary cell).
candidate beam information, or the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information; and performing beam failure recovery of the first SCell according to the information of beam failure recovery. [421]- he UCI bits (=information) can be partitioned into two part: part 1 has N2_1 bits to indicate which Scell(s) have beam failure (=beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to the first Scell) and part 2 has N2_2 to indicate one RS ID as new candidate beam(=the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information). In part 1, each bit can be used to indicate the beam failure of an associated Scell.
Guo does not teach, wherein before the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, the method further comprises:transmitting an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode to the UE
Yumin teaches, wherein before the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, the method further comprises:
transmitting an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode to the UE; page 4 para 6-the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device,
wherein the transmitting the indication signaling for the beam failure reporting mode to the UE comprises one of:transmitting the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode to the UE; page 4 para 6the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, comprises: detecting the information of beam failure recovery through a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) based on a configured grant as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 23, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 22, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, comprises at least one of:detecting the information of beam failure recovery through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH);
Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 22, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, comprises at least one of:detecting the information of beam failure recovery through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH);
page 4 para 7- if the terminal stops the beam failure recovery process, the terminal may send control information indicating the beam failure to the network device. The control information is a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH),
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, The method according to claim 22, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, comprises at least one of:detecting the information of beam failure recovery through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 24, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 22, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, comprises at least one of: detecting the information of beam failure recovery on the first SCell; or detecting the information of beam failure recovery on a first cell corresponding to the first SCell and used for performing beam failure recovery.[422]- In one embodiment, for the beam failure recovery of one Scell, the condition for a UE to send beam failure recovery request to the serving gNB is beam failure is detected on one Scell and the UE can be requested not to do new beam detection.
Regarding Claim 30, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The method according to claim 23, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery through the PUSCH based on the configured grant, comprises: detecting the information of beam failure recovery in a Media access control-control element MAC-CE;.[458]- In yet another example, the UE can be requested to assume the designed “default” beam on PUCCH resources starting from the first symbol of a PUSCH transmission that is scheduled by DCI format 0_0 with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI or MCS-C-RNTI detected in PDCCH in search space for beam failure recovery (i.e., the search space provided by recoverySearchSpaceId).
Regarding Claim 39, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, A User Equipment (UE), comprising a processor, a memory and a transceiver; the memory, configured to store computer instructions; the processor, configured to run the computer instructions to:
determine a target reporting mode for beam failure of a first secondary cell (SCell); and in a case that the UE detects that beam failure occurs to the first SCell, report information of beam failure recovery to a base station by using the target reporting mode, [421]- the UE can report N2 bits in beam failure recovery request(=determining, by a User Equipment (UE)) UCI to report (1)(= a target reporting mode for beam failure) which Scell(s) have beam failure (2) and one RS ID as the new candidate beam to the serving gNB.
[424]- For a first Scell with uplink band, a UE may be configured with PRACH resource in that uplink band for the UE to transmit beam failure recovery request of a first Scell(=first secondary cell).
wherein the information of beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to the first SCell, and candidate beam information, or the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information; and the transceiver, configured to receive and transmit data under the control of the processor. . [421]- he UCI bits (=information) can be partitioned into two part: part 1 has N2_1 bits to indicate which Scell(s) have beam failure (=beam failure recovery comprises information indicating that a beam failure event occurs to the first Scell) and part 2 has N2_2 to indicate one RS ID as new candidate beam(=the information of beam failure recovery comprises candidate beam information). In part 1, each bit can be used to indicate the beam failure of an associated Scell.
Guo does not teach, receive an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station; wherein the processor is further configured to run the computer instructions to: receive the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station;
Yumin teaches, receive an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station; page 4 para 6-the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device,
wherein the processor is further configured to run the computer instructions to: receive the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station; page 4 para 6the terminal receives the indication information of the initiated change beam process sent by the network device.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, receive an indication signaling for a beam failure reporting mode from the base station wherein the processor is further configured to run the computer instructions to: receive the indication signaling comprising indication information for indicating the beam failure reporting mode from the base station as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 40, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, A computer readable storage medium, wherein the storage medium stores computer instructions, and the computer instructions are executed by a processor to perform the method according to claim 1.See Fig 3
Regarding Claim 41, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, A base station. comprising: a processor. a memory and a transceiver: the memory. configured to store computer instructions: the processor. configured to run the computer instructions to perform the method according to claim 22; and the transceiver, configured to receive and transmit data under the control of the processor. See Fig 2
Regarding Claim 43, Guo does not teach, The UE according to claim 39, wherein the processor is further configured to: report the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)
Yumin teaches, The UE according to claim 39, wherein the processor is further configured to: report the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) page 4 para 7- if the terminal stops the beam failure recovery process, the terminal may send control information indicating the beam failure to the network device. The control information is a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH),
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo, The UE according to claim 39, wherein the processor is further configured to: report the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) as taught by Yumin to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 44, Guo in view of Yumin teaches, The UE according to claim 43, wherein the processor configured to report the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUSCH based on the configured grant is further configured to: report the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through a Media Access Control-Control Element (MAC-CE).[423]- If a UE is not configured with PUCCH resource for reporting beam failure recovery request of Scell, the UE may use MAC-CE message to report the beam failure event and/or associated information (for example the ID of newly identified Tx beam) to the serving gNB.
Claim(s) 5,27-29 are rejected as being unpatentable over by Guo et al. (US20190190582A1) in view of Yumin et al. (CN110392427A) in further view of Cirik et al. (US20240107394A1)(hereinafter “Cirik2”)
Regarding Claim 5, Guo in view of Yumin does not teach, The method according to claim 2, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH, comprises: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH on a periodic scheduling resource configured by the base station for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery
Cirik2 teaches, The method according to claim 2, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH, comprises: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH on a periodic scheduling resource configured by the base station for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery [243]- A detection of a beam failure instance may, for example, be based on hypothetical PDCCH BLER. Using beam reporting via a PUCCH, a wireless device may report one or more L1-RSRP values associated with one or more first RSs.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo in view of Yumin, The method according to claim 2, wherein the reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH, comprises: reporting the information of beam failure recovery to the base station through the PUCCH on a periodic scheduling resource configured by the base station for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery as taught by Cirik2 to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 27, Guo in view of Yumin does not teach, The method according to claim 23. wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery is detected through the PUCCH, before detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, the method further comprises: configuring, a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, for the first SCell
Cirik2 teaches, The method according to claim 23. wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery is detected through the PUCCH, before detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, the method further comprises: configuring, a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, for the first SCell. [268]- [271]- A wireless device may receive, for example, from a base station, one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters of a first cell (e.g., a PCell) and/or of a second cell (e.g., an SCell). The one or more configuration parameters may indicate at least one of one or more first RSs of the second cell; one or more second RSs of the second cell; and/or one or more beam BFRQ resources.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo in view of Yumin, The method according to claim 23. wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery is detected through the PUCCH, before detecting the information of beam failure recovery reported by the UE, the method further comprises: configuring, a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, for the first SCell as taught by Cirik2 to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 28, Guo in view of Yumin does not teach, The method according to claim 23, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery through the PUCCH, comprises: detecting the information of beam failure recovery on a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, configured for the first SCell.
Cirik2 teaches, The method according to claim 23, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery through the PUCCH, comprises: detecting the information of beam failure recovery on a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, configured for the first SCell.[101]- The quality of a beam pair link may be based on a reference signal received power (RSRP) value, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) value, and/or a CSI value measured on RS resources.
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo in view of Yumin, The method according to claim 23, wherein the detecting the information of beam failure recovery through the PUCCH, comprises: detecting the information of beam failure recovery on a periodic scheduling resource for the PUCCH carrying the information of beam failure recovery, configured for the first SCell as taught by Cirik2 to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
Regarding Claim 29, Guo in view of Yumin does not teach, The method according to claim 28, wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery comprises the candidate beam information, the candidate beam information comprises reference signal indication information corresponding to a candidate beam.
Cirik2 teaches, The method according to claim 28, wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery comprises the candidate beam information, the candidate beam information comprises reference signal indication information corresponding to a candidate beam [203]- At step 2103, the wireless device may select a selected beam, for example, a beam, from a set of candidate beams, with good channel quality (e.g., based on one or more of RSRP, SINR, or BLER). The candidate beams may be identified by a set of reference signals (e.g., SSBs and/or CSI-RSs).
It would have been obvious to a person having an ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Guo in view of Yumin, The method according to claim 28, wherein in a case that the information of beam failure recovery comprises the candidate beam information, the candidate beam information comprises reference signal indication information corresponding to a candidate beam as taught by Cirik2 to add PUCCH as a BFR resource to support multiple physical channels.
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/ANINDITA SEN/Examiner, Art Unit 2478
/JOSEPH E AVELLINO/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2478