DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 7/8/2026 has been entered.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 7/8/2026 have been fully considered but they are not fully persuasive. The rejection has been revised to show how the newly claimed parameters are not patentable in view of the newly cited Ang reference. The argument regarding multimedia data bursts associated with a period pattern of XR downlink traffic is not persuasive because, as pointed out in the 4/8/2026 action, the UE receives data the same way regardless of what the data represents. Regarding claims 4 and 6, by allowing an offset to be specified, the UE will treat the 1024 frame length as shorter allowing it effectively set a hyper frame length shorter than 1024 which could include 1000 if the offset were greater than 24. The Examiner believes this interpretation reads on the breadth of claims 4 and 6.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-12, 31-42, and 46-51 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 31, and 36 feature the following limitation:
set a length of [[a]]the hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles based at least in part on the set of parameters in the DRX configuration,
The applicant disclosed the procedure to set a length of a hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles in paragraphs 156-161. The applicant did not describe that this procedure is based on any of the parameters claimed. The parameters are described in paragraphs 109 and 118-120. There is no disclosure that the setting procedure described in paragraphs 156-161 involved the parameters for receiving data based on an anchor cycle described in paragraphs 109 and 118-120. The setting of the length appears cover a different manner of receiving and decoding the DRX data than that using the anchor lengths and DRX cycles with non-uniform lengths and thus the combination claimed could not be reasonably inferred from the original disclosure.
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) 1-12, 31-42, and 46-51 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Number 11,659,519 to Agiwal in view of U.S. Patent Application Publication Number 2020/0389933 by Ang et al.
As to claim 1, Agiwal teaches a user equipment (UE) (Figure 3) for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories (ref. no. 330); and one or more processors (ref. no. 320) coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories including instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the UE to: receive signaling that includes a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for a set of DRX cycles (col. 2, lines 37-39), set a length of a hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles (col. 2, lines 39-41 and col. 3, lines 16-24, the paging time window is defined by the number of frames), wherein: the length of the hyper frame includes a number of frames in the hyper frame (col. 3, lines 16-24), the length of the hyper frame is set to match a cadence of multimedia data bursts (col. 8, line 34-col. 9, line 15, the number and duration of slots can be configured and thus any cadence of bursts can be accommodated for) associated with a periodic pattern of XR downlink traffic (the UE is able to receive any data provided via DRX cycles including XR data), the a periodicity of DRX cycles, in the set of DRX cycles, corresponds to a multiple of a periodicity of the multimedia data bursts, and the DRX cycles are aligned with the multimedia data bursts based at least in part on the length of the hyper frame (col. 10, line 35-col. 11, line 26 and col. 12, line 36-col. 13, line 16, the UE uses the configuration information which included hyper frame length to align with the paging window); and receive the multimedia data bursts according to the set of DRX cycles (col. 3, lines 25-46); however Agiwal does not explicitly teach the second alternative where the set of parameters comprise a cycle duration of each DRX cycle in the hyper frame and a pattern of DRX on-duration start offset adjustments in the hyper frame.
Ang teaches a UE which receives signaling that includes a DRX configuration for a set of DRX cycles (ref. no. 720 in Figure 7), wherein the DRX configuration includes a set of parameters for a hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles and wherein the set of parameters comprise: a duration of an anchor cycle in the hyper frame (paragraph 91, anchor cycle 420), a number of DRX cycles in the anchor cycle (paragraph 91, in Figure 4, configuration 415 shows DRX cycles within the anchor cycle), and a respective duration of each DRX cycle in the anchor cycle (Figure 4 shows the durations as 8ms, 8ms, and 9ms), wherein a first DRX cycle in the anchor cycle has a first cycle duration and a second DRX cycle in the anchor cycle has a second cycle duration different from the first cycle duration (8ms is different than 9ms); a cycle duration of each DRX cycle in the hyper frame and a pattern of DRX on-duration start offset adjustments in the hyper frame (paragraphs 90-92 describe Figure 4) and setting a length of the hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles based at least in part on the set of parameters in the DRX configuration (paragraphs 90-92, the anchor cycle is considered a length); the DRX cycles in the set of DRX cycles are aligned with multimedia data bursts based at least in part on the length of the hyper frame and the set of parameters in the DRX configuration (paragraphs 90-92).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the wireless data reception art at the time of the filing to combine the teachings of Agiwal regarding managing the reception of data according to DRX cycles based on a received configuration with the teachings of Ang regarding a DRX configuration that specified leap cycles because such a configuration could provide an alternative way of receiving the DRX data at the UE that may be superior to that disclosed by Agiwal for some types of data.
As to claims 31 and 46, they are rejected for the same reasoning as claim 1.
As to claim 2, 32, and 47, see col. 12, line 36-col. 13, line 16 of Agiwal.
As to claims 3, 33, and 48, see col. 3, line 4-15 of Agiwal.
As to claims 4, 34, and 49, see col. 3, line 4-15 of Agiwal, the page frame offset and the total number of frames can be used to set the length to less than 1024 frames.
As to claims 5, 35, and 50, as shown in Figure 1 and col. 7, lines 30-57 of Agiwal, the purpose of the DRX implementation is to account for multimedia data bursts with a cadence having a frequency, which would be measured in hertz. The applicant is claiming frequency domain to time domain conversion which is a basic signal processing concept.
As to claims 6, 36, and 51, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the hyper frame length can be set to any value less than 1024 by the page frame offset value provided in the configuration information.
As to claims 7 and 37, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the system counts frames in order to keep track of when to receive data on the signal.
As to claims 8 and 38, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the frame numbers correspond to durations and thus a time reference is built into the frame numbers. Such a count will be maintained if there is “timing ambiguity”.
As to claims 9 and 39, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the counter can be initialized with the frame offset value or the start frame value.
As to claims 10 and 40, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35, and col. 2, lines 37-39 of Agiwal.
As to claims 11 and 41, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the counter can be initialized with the frame offset value or the start frame value.
As to claims 12 and 42, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35 of Agiwal, the system manages the sequence of frames to search DRX cycles.
Conclusion
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/DOUGLAS B BLAIR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2454
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