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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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 2/24/2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. Independent claims 1, 31, and 46 perform three actions: “receiving signaling that indicates a DRX configuration for a set of DRX cycles”, “setting a length of a hyper frame for the set of DRX cycles”, and “receiving the multimedia bursts according to the DRX cycles”. These actions are not coherently claimed as even being related to each other. There is nothing that ties the “setting of the length of the hyper frame” to the reception of the DRX configuration. There is nothing that ties the reception of the multimedia bursts to the setting of the length of the hyper frame. After the “setting” limitation, there is a wherein clause that features two limitations which specify information about the length of the hyper frame and two limitations which specify information about the DRX cycles but none of these limitations in the wherein clause actually limit the action of “setting of a length of a hyper frame”. The first two limitations specify information about the “length” but if the receiver is “setting” the length then it is inherently capable of setting to any length that matches these properties. The second two limitations specify information about the DRX cycles but such information does not impact “setting a length of a hyper frame” as the applicant is only specifying properties of DRX cycles.
The applicant has disclosed that the base station provides the UE with configuration information and the UE uses this configuration information to set the length of the a hyperframe. See paragraph 160 and Figure 19. The applicant has disclosed an invention where the base station seems to have knowledge about multimedia bursts associated with VR equipment (see Figure 4) and how the frequency of such bursts (every 8.333 ms in Figure 6) does not align with DRX cycles that are set to receive every 8ms (see Figure 6). The applicant has not disclosed that the UE does anything to analyze the Burst Arrivals associated with the VR equipment. Instead, the applicant has disclosed that the UE just receives configuration information from the base station and the UE does what it is told based on the configuration information. From the perspective of the UE, the applicant has disclosed the concept of waking up the UE at an interval to receive data according to configuration information provided to the UE. The base station is disclosed as performing the calculation of the length of the hyper frame because the base station has the information about the frequency of the multimedia bursts associated with the VR data, not the UE. The applicant’s invention seems to be reliant upon the base station performing analysis of the data that is to be transmitted in order to provide the UE with information about how it is to receive the session.
With this in mind, Agiwal reads on the actions performed by the claimed receiver. Col. 2, lines 37-39 shows receiving a DRX configuration and setting a length of a hyper frame for a set of DRX cycles. Agiwal is mapped to show the details of the “wherein” clause are anticipated. The applicant is claiming using DRX for its purpose as the idea of DRX is to manage when the UE is to receive data; this is what is disclosed by Agiwal. The cited portion of Agiwal show receiving multimedia data bursts according to the DRX cycles. The Examiner cannot find anything disclosed about the UE by the applicant that patentably distinguishes over Agiwal.
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-12, 31-42, and 46-51 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Number 11,659,519 to Agiwal.
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 indicates 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), 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 DRX cycles (col. 3, lines 25-46).
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.
As to claims 3, 33, and 48, see col. 3, line 4-15.
As to claims 4, 34, and 49, see col. 3, line 4-15, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.
As to claims 11 and 41, see col. 11, line 65-col. 12, line 35, 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, the system manages the sequence of frames to search DRX cycles.
Conclusion
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