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 § 102/103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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) 1-8, 31-52 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatenable over Muller US 20210195521 over Tabet US 20150092647
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
[[a memory]]; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory (Muller: fig. 2, unit 32), configured to:
receive, in at least one of a physical downlink control channel communication or a physical downlink shared channel communication, one or more connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) parameters associated with a CDRX cycle (Muller: fig. 1 [0049, 0060, 0113-0115] message 26 & message 20 - a PDCCH during the on-duration period of a C-DRX cycle); and
perform an operation associated with a CDRX cycle based at least in part on the one or more CDRX parameters (Muller: fig. 1-3 [0113-0115] responsive to receiving a message 26 (e.g., a DCI message received on a PDCCH) from the radio network node 12 during a wake-up monitoring period 24, attempting to decode the received message 26 using the DRX-RNTI 22).
Muller merely discloses term a memory
Tabet teaches the term memory (Tabet: fig.3A, unit 306);
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Muller’s invention in order to make PDCCH decoding operations during a connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle 1108 that may be triggered by a PDCCH decode indicator 1104 within the PDSCH, as taught by Tabet.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more CDRX parameters include at least one of an inactivity timer, a PDCCH monitoring periodicity, a CDRX periodicity, a PDCCH skipping length, a CDRX ON duration, or timing information for a wake-up associated with an upcoming CDRX ON duration (Muller: [0114] period of a next C-DRX cycle).
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the CDRX cycle is a second CDRX cycle, and wherein at least one of the PDCCH communication or PDSCH communication is received during a CDRX ON duration of a first CDRX cycle that is prior to an on duration of the second CDRX cycle (Muller: [0075] C-DRX cycle 2-2, C-DRX cycle 2-3).
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one the PDCCH communication or PDSCH communication is to be received during a CDRX ON duration of the CDRX cycle (Muller: [0113-0115] receiving a message 26 (e.g., a DCI message received on a PDCCH)).
5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the PDCCH communication carries at least one of: downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a PDSCH communication for the apparatus, DCI that does not schedule a PDSCH communication for the apparatus, DCI that utilizes DCI format 2_6 or DCI format 1_1 (Muller: [0084] DCI format, Tabet [0006, 0016] do-not-decode period).
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein one or more additional CDRX parameters are to be received in at least one of a medium access control (MAC) control element or a MAC header (Muller: [0084] DCI format, Tabet [0096] MAC CE).
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one CDRX parameter of the one or more CDRX parameters is to be received in a CDRX payload that is appended to a data payload of the PDSCH communication or that is multiplexed with the data payload of the PDSCH communication (Tabet: fig. 11, [0031, 0095]).
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the operation associated with a CDRX cycle, are configured to apply at least one CDRX parameter, from the one or more CDRX parameters, to the CDRX cycle, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit an indication of the at least one CDRX parameter (Muller: [0079] C-DRX configuration parameters).
Regarding claims 31-52, the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1-8, where the difference used is a “NTCRM/apparatus” with a processor and a memory (Tabet: Referring to FIG. 3, includes a processor unit, a memory) and the wordings of the claims were interchanged within the claim itself or some of the claims were presented as a combination of two or more previously presented limitations. This change does not affect the limitation of the above treated claims. Adding these phrases to the claims arid interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore, these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above.
Response to Amendment
Applicant's arguments with respect to claim(s) 1-8, 31-52 have been considered but are moot in view of the new ground(s) of rejection.
Remark:
The examiner stresses that the claims are too broad and require detail or specialization of the steps as recited in the claims. Alone and as claimed, the limitations are too open.
Examiner has cited particular portions of the references as applied to each claim limitation for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant in preparing responses, to fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
Regarding all other arguments presented by applicant, the arguments are substantially the same as those which have already been addressed above and in the interest of brevity; the Examiner directs the applicant to those responses above.
In addition, an interview could expedite the prosecution.
Conclusion
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/SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415