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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, and 4-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by QU (USPUB 2021/0194287).
As to Claim 1, QU discloses a point of interface for connecting communication between a base station and a distributed antenna system, comprising: a power collection unit provided with first ports connected to the base station; and second ports connected to the distributed antenna system (Figure 4); and a battery management unit comprising a battery pack (Element 202), wherein the power collection unit comprises: a rectifier for rectifying a signal transmitted through the first ports (Element 2042a); couplers for coupling the signal transmitted through the first ports to transmit an obtained sub RF signal to the second ports (Elements 204a and 221a); and a charger for charging the battery pack with power using the rectified signal (Element 22).
As to Claim 2, QU discloses the point of interface according to claim 1, wherein the rectifier comprises a plurality of rectifier elements for rectifying a main RF signal, other than the sub RF signal distributed by the couplers, among signals transmitted through the first ports to DC signals, and the power collection unit comprises at least one signal distributer for distributing the main RF signal, which passes through the couplers, to the plural rectifier elements; and a combine element for summing the plural DC signals rectified by the plural rectifier elements (Figure 4, Elements 204a, 204b, 221a, 221b, 201).
As to Claim 4, QU discloses the point of interface according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of distribution elements are provided between the couplers and the plural rectifier elements such that the distribution elements are hierarchically connected to each other (Figure 4, Elements 204a and 204b).
As to Claim 5, QU discloses the point of interface according to claim 1, wherein the battery management unit comprises: a first power input port inputted from the charger of the power collection unit; a second power input port to which power that is supplied to the base station and divided is inputted; a power output port for outputting power outward; and a power controller for selecting any one source of the battery pack, the first power input port and the second power input port and for supplying power of the selected source to the power output port (Figure 4, Elements 204a, 204b, 221a, 221b, 201).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3, and 6-11 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/ROBERT GRANT/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2859
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