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 .
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.
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) 58, 68 and 75 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Luo (US 2021/0076453).
Regarding Claim 58 and 68, Luo teaches an apparatus, comprising:
at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions stored therein (Figure 13, see specifically #1312 see specifically CRM);
at least one receiver (Figure 13, see specifically 1308, transceiver);
at least one transmitter (Figure 13, see specifically 1308, transceiver); and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, the at least one receiver and the at least one transmitter (Figure 13, see specifically 1308, transceiver);
wherein the computer executable instructions are programmed to implement a
method (Figure 13, see specifically #1312 see specifically CRM), the method comprising:
determining whether configured grant (CG) resources in a first cell need to be released (¶ [0052], see specifically will not be used.);
and in response to determining that the CG resources need to be released, transmitting a CG resource releasing report or releasing the CG resources (¶ [0052], see specifically grant release message.)
Regarding Claim 75, Luo teaches further comprising receiving a CG resource releasing report from the UE (¶ [0052], see specifically grant release message.)
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.
The factual inquiries for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the claims the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the various claims was commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the claimed invention(s) absent any evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out the inventor and effective filing dates of each claim that was not commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the later invention in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(2)(C) for any potential 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) prior art against the later invention.
Claim(s) 76 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Luo (US 2021/0076453) in view of Ou (US 2021/0227575).
Regarding Claim 76, Luo fails to explicitly teach the CG resource releasing report comprises the CG resource information in the first cell for data transmission for a UE in idle mode or in inactive mode.
Ou from the same or similar field of endeavor teaches the CG resource releasing report comprises the CG resource information in the first cell for data transmission for a UE in idle mode or in inactive mode (¶ [0238], see specifically inactive state and implicit release).
Thus, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art of telecommunications at the time of the filing of the invention to allow the UE to release configured grants in inactive or idle more in the system of Luo as taught by Ou.
The motivation is that Idle and Inactive mode are power savings modes that reduce the power consumption of a user device, allowing it to release unused resources would allow the system to utilize those resources elsewhere.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 59, 60-66, 69-74 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/ROBERT M MORLAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2409
ROBERT M. MORLAN
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2409