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 .
This office action is in response to RCE filed on May 29, 2026.
Claims 1, 5, 15 and 30 have been amended.
Claims 2-4 and 13 have been canceled.
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 30 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Xu et al. (2023/0028423).
Regarding claim 30, Xu discloses a user equipment (see abstract, fig.15, element 1502, paragraph [0021] and its description), comprising: memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory (see abstract, fig.15, elements 1524, 1518, paragraph [0021], [0218-0219] and its description), wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the user equipment to: determine that a first network has misconfigured at least one resource for the user equipment a number of times that is greater than or equal to a threshold, wherein the at least one resource is for communication via a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT (see abstract, fig. 17, fig.22, elements Wireless device, Base Station, time T1- T2, fig.24, paragraphs [0023], [0030], [0032], [0248] and its description); select a first processing capability of a plurality of processing capabilities of the user equipment based on the determination that the first network has misconfigured the at least one resource for the user equipment the number of times that is greater than or equal to the threshold (see abstract, fig. 17, fig.22, elements Wireless device, Base Station, time T3, fig.24, paragraphs [0023], [0030], [0032], [0248] and its description); and maintain an indication of the first processing capability for subsequent communication with the first network (see abstract, fig.19, elements Wireless device, Base Station, time T4- T6, fig.24, paragraphs [0023], [0030], [0032], [0248-0249] and its description).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 5-12, 14-29 are allowed.
Examiner's Note: Examiner has cited particular columns and line numbers in the references applied to the claims above for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to 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.
When responding to this Office Action, Applicant is advised to clearly point out the patentable novelty which he or she thinks the claims present, in view of the state of the art disclosed by the references cited or the objections made. He or she must also show how the amendments avoid such references or objections See 37 CFR 1.111(c).
Conclusion
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
/CONGVAN TRAN/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2647
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