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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 .
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and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114.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 2/24/26 has been entered.
Response to Arguments
The declaration under 37 CFR 1.132 filed 2/24/26 is insufficient to overcome the rejection of claims 1, 12,23,27 based upon Section 103 as set forth in the last Office action because: the declarant, Yan Zhou, is one of the inventors of the invention herein. This would potentially call into question his impartiality and neutrality.
However, the scope of the claim has been changed, in view of the claim amendments entered herein, thus giving rise to the new grounds of rejection below.
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 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 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) 23,1,12,27,2-3,5-8,16,13-14,17-19,24-25,28-29,10,21 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over 3GPP TS 38.212 v16.1.0 (2020-3) (provided by Applicant’s IDS, hereinafter “3GPP”), in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2019/0297603 A1 to Guo et al., further in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2020/0288479 A1 to Xi et al.
As to claim 23, 3GPP discloses An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising: at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored on at least one memory to cause the UE to (page 64, disclosing transmitting CSI on PUSCH via UCI, thus teaching to a phosita that the csi is transmitted by a UE to a eNB/base-station, UE and eNB/base-station teaching the recited processor, transmitter, nontransitory computer readable media, and other components conventionally associated with UE/eNB/base-station)
measure one or more metrics to be reported in one or more physical layer channel state information (CSI) reports (page 64, disclosing transmitting CSI on PUSCH via UCI, thus teaching to a phosita that the csi is transmitted by a UE to a eNB/base-station; further see pages 65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, e.g., CRI, wideband CQI, SINR, RSRP, etc., [such CSI fields teaching “metrics”], teaching to a phosita that such csi fields/metrics are measured at the UE);
determine a field mapping order per physical layer CSI report (pages 64-66, see discussion above); and
to transmit the physical layer CSI reports via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), with the one or more metrics in CSI fields occurring in accordance with the determined field mapping order (page 64, disclosing transmitting CSI on PUSCH via UCI, thus teaching to a phosita that the csi is transmitted by a UE to a eNB/base-station; further see pages 65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, e.g., CRI, wideband CQI, SINR, RSRP, etc., [such CSI fields teaching “metrics”], teaching to a phosita that such csi fields/metrics are measured at the UE).
3GPP does not appear to explicitly disclose wherein each physical layer CSI report has a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR).
Guo discloses wherein each physical layer CSI report has a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR). (paragraphs 327-338, see, e.g., paragraphs 327, 334 and 335-8, disclosing scenarios where depending on the value that the “higher layer parameter reportQuantity” is set to, the UE may be configured to measure more than one “Resource” settings, where one may be “for channel measurement” and another one for “interference measurement”, and then report or feed back the multiple measurements; whereas, in contrast, in paragraph 333, the UE is only configured “with one Resource setting for channel measurement for L1-SINR computation, when the “higher layer parameter reportQuantity” is set to “cri-sinr” or “ssbri-sinr” [thus teaching “when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR)”], where “the UE can report one or more CRI or SSBRI and their corresponding SInr measurement”, teaching that the UE may report only one signal “CRI or SSBRI” and its corresponding SInR measurement”, thus teaching “wherein each physical layer CSI report has a single part”, to a PHOSITA, at least since in contrast to paragraphs 327, 334 and 335-8, where the CSI may comprise multiple portions or “parts”, the embodiment in paragraph 333 contemplates the scenario where the CSI has only one “part”, i.e., SINR for one csi-rs resource in the one configured resource set, teaching this limitation).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Guo’s teachings may be combinable with 3gpp’s teachings to reject this claim, since both references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports disclosed in 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the features of the CSI reporting scheme disclosed in Guo, i.e., comprising only one CSI part when the report quantity parameter is set to the recited “csi sinr” or “ssb index sinr”. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; Kang, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, page 64). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
Guo and 3GPP do not appear to explicitly disclose wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP.
Xi discloses wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP (paragraphs 214-216 and Fig. 12: “When the higher layer parameter ReportQuantity is configured with one of the values ‘CRI/RSRP’ or ‘SSBRI/RSRP’, the CSI report may comprise a single part …”).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Xi’s teachings may be combinable with Guo and 3gpp’s combined teachings to reject this claim, since the cited references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports collectively taught by Guo and 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the features of the CSI reporting scheme disclosed in Xi to reject this claim. In particular, Guo and 3gpp’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report has a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR)” and Xi’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP” are combinable to reject “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR)”, since a pHOSITA would have found it obvious to substitute the CRI/RSRP and SSBRI/RSRP parameters in Xi with the CRI-SINR and SSB-Index-SInR parameters disclosed in Guo/3gpp, since to a phosita, these parameters are respectively clearly intimately related quality metrics. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; Kang, paragraphs 1-30; Xi, paragraphs 1-3; 3gPP, page 64). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
AS to claims 1, 12 and 27, see rejection for claim 23.
As to claim 2, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
3GPP further discloses wherein the field mapping order is based on a table associated with the one or more metrics. (pages 65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”).
As to claim 3, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
3GPP further discloses wherein the one or more metrics comprise at least one of: a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource indicator (CRI);a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) resource block indicator (SSBRI); or a signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR). (pages 65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, including “SSBRI”, “SINR”)
As to claim 5, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 3.
3GPP further discloses wherein: the field mapping order dictates that, after an absolute SINR value occurs, one or more differential SINR values occur; and the one or more differential SINR values are relative to the absolute SINR value. (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, including “SINR” and “differential SINR”, further see Table 6.3.1.1.2-6A)
As to claim 6, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 5.
3GPP further discloses wherein the absolute SINR value is a strongest SINR value of two or more SINR values, and the other SINR values of the two or more SINR values are represented by the one or more differential SINR values. (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, including “SINR” and “differential SINR”, further see Table 6.3.1.1.2-6A)
As to claim 7, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
3GPP further discloses wherein the field mapping order is the same as a field mapping order used for reports transmitted via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, which is transmitted through PUSCH, as discussed on page 64; further see pages 46-53, especially Tables 6.3.1.1.2-[9,10,11], disclosing field mapping order for CSI transmitted through UCI on PUCCH [see pages 46-47], which reflect the same mapping order as Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A])
As to claim 8, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
3GPP further discloses wherein the CSI fields of the physical layer CSI reports are mapped to a single uplink control information (UCI) bit sequence (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, which is transmitted through PUSCH, as discussed on page 64; further see Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[6,7], disclosing that all CSI part 1 fields are mapped to one single UCI bit sequence and all CSI part 2 fields are all mapped to another single UCI bit sequence, thus teaching that the CSI fields in CSI part 1 may teach the recited “CSI fields”, and thus are mapped to a single UCI sequence, teaching this limitation, and similarly for CSI fields in CSI part 2)
As to claim 16, 3GPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 12.
3GPP further discloses wherein: the field mapping order dictates that, after an absolute SINR value occurs, one or more differential SINR values occur; and the differential SINR values are relative to the absolute SINR value. (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, including “SINR” and “differential SINR”, further see Table 6.3.1.1.2-6A)
As to claims 13-14,17-19, see rejection for claims 2-3,6-8.
As to claims 24-25, see rejection for claims 2-3.
As to claims 28-29, see rejection for claims 2-3.
AS to claim 10, 3gPP, Guo and Xi teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
3gpp further discloses wherein the single part is associated with a first uplink control information (UCI) bit sequence of at least two UCI bit sequences. (pages 50-51,65-66, Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[3,4,5,5A], disclosing mapping, ordering and including of certain “CSI fields” in each “CSI report #n”, which is transmitted through PUSCH, as discussed on page 64; further see Tables 6.3.2.1.2-[6,7], disclosing that all CSI part 1 fields are mapped to one single UCI bit sequence and all CSI part 2 fields are all mapped to another single UCI bit sequence, teaching this limitation)
As to claim 21, see rejection for claim 10.
Claim(s) 11,22 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over 3GPP TS 38.212 v16.1.0 (2020-3) (provided by Applicant’s IDS, hereinafter “3GPP”), in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2019/0297603 A1 to Guo et al. and U.S. Patent Publication No. 2020/0288479 A1 to Xi et al., further in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2019/0058517 A1 to Kang et al.
AS to claim 11, 3gPP, Guo and Xi teach the method as in the parent claim 1.
Xi discloses wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP (paragraphs 214-216 and Fig. 12: “When the higher layer parameter ReportQuantity is configured with one of the values ‘CRI/RSRP’ or ‘SSBRI/RSRP’, the CSI report may comprise a single part …”).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Xi’s teachings may be combinable with Guo and 3gpp’s combined teachings to reject this claim, since the cited references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports collectively taught by Guo and 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the features of the CSI reporting scheme disclosed in Xi to reject this claim. In particular, Guo and 3gpp’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report has a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR)” and Xi’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP” are combinable to reject “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS Resource Indicator - signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (cri- SINR) or synchronization signal block index - signal-to-interference-plus-noise Ratio (SSB-Index-SINR)”, since a pHOSITA would have found it obvious to substitute the CRI/RSRP and SSBRI/RSRP parameters in Xi with the CRI-SINR and SSB-Index-SInR parameters disclosed in Guo/3gpp, since to a phosita, these parameters are respectively clearly intimately related quality metrics. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; Kang, paragraphs 1-30; Xi, paragraphs 1-3; 3gPP, page 64). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
3gpp, Xi and Guo do not appear to explicitly disclose wherein each physical layer CSI report further has the single part when the higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS resource indicator - reference signal received power (cri-RSRP) or synchronization signal block index - reference signal received power (ssb-Index-RSRP).
Kang discloses wherein each physical layer CSI report further has the single part when the higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS resource indicator - reference signal received power (cri-RSRP) or synchronization signal block index - reference signal received power (ssb-Index-RSRP) (paragraph 445).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Kang’s teachings may be combinable with Xi/Guo/3gpp’s teachings to reject this claim, since both references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports disclosed in 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the CSI reports disclosed in Kang that has a single part. In particular, Xi/Guo/3gpp’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of a single part when a higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CRI/RSRP or SSBRI/RSRP” and Kang’s teaching of “wherein each physical layer CSI report further has the single part when the higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS resource indicator - reference signal received power (cri-RSRP) or synchronization signal block index - reference signal received power (ssb-Index-RSRP)” are combinable to reject “wherein each physical layer CSI report consists of the single part further when the higher layer report quantity parameter is configured with one of the values: CSI-RS resource indicator - reference signal received power (cri-RSRP) or synchronization signal block index - reference signal received power (ssb-Index-RSRP)”, since a pHOSITA would have found it obvious to substitute the CRI/RSRP and SSBRI/RSRP parameters in Xi with the CRI-RSRP and SSB-Index-RSRP parameters disclosed in Kang, since to a phosita, these parameters are respectively clearly intimately related quality metrics.
The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; 3gpp, page 64; Kang, paragraphs 1-30). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
As to claim 22, see rejection for claim 11.
Claim(s) 4,15,26,30 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over 3GPP TS 38.212 v16.1.0 (2020-3) (provided by Applicant’s IDS, hereinafter “3GPP”), in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2019/0297603 A1 to Guo et al. and U.S. Patent Publication No. 2020/0288479 A1 to Xi et al., further in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2019/0199420 A1 to Faxer et al.
AS to claim 4, 3gPP, Xi and Guo teach the method as in the parent claim 3.
3gpp does not appear to explicitly disclose wherein the field mapping order is based on: a quantity of the one or more metrics measured; and which of the one or more metrics are measured.
Faxer discloses wherein the field mapping order is based on: a quantity of the one or more metrics measured; and which of the one or more metrics are measured. (Figs. 17-18 and paragraph 201-205).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Faxer’s teachings may be combinable with 3gpp’s teachings to reject this claim, since both references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports disclosed in 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the features of the CSI reports disclosed in Faxer. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; Kang, paragraphs 1-30). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
AS to claim 15, 3gPP, Xi and Guo the method as in the parent claim 12.
3gpp does not appear to explicitly disclose wherein the field mapping order is based on: a quantity of the one or more metrics measured; and which of the one or more metrics are measured.
Faxer discloses wherein the field mapping order is based on: a quantity of the one or more metrics measured; and which of the one or more metrics are measured. (Figs. 17-18 and paragraph 201-205).
Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art that Faxer’s teachings may be combinable with 3gpp’s teachings to reject this claim, since both references are directed to wireless communication infrastructures featuring cqi/csi feedback mechanisms, and since it would have been obvious to a phosita that the physical layer csi reports disclosed in 3gpp may be further modified by or incorporated with the features of the CSI reports disclosed in Faxer. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve resource allocation and signaling therefor for communication status and quality feedback methods in wireless communication systems. (Guo, paragraphs 1-15 and 327-338; Faxer, paragraphs 1-30; 3gpp, pages 46-68; Kang, paragraphs 1-30). Furthermore, note that with regard to the claimed invention, especially the limitation above, all of the claimed elements have been shown to be known in the cited art, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art as of and before the effective filing date.
As to claims 26,30, see rejection for claim 4.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
U.S. Patent Publication No. 2022/0029682 A1 to Park et al.
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