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 with respect to claim(s) 1,6,11 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 § 102
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
The text of those sections of Title 35, U.S. Code not included in this action can be found in a prior Office action.
Claim(s) 1,6,11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being unpatentable by Muruganathan et, al. (US 11722263 B2, referred to as Muruganathan hereinafter)
Regarding claim 1, Muruganathan teaches a user equipment (UE) that communicates with a base station apparatus, the UE comprising: receiving circuitry configured to: [pp. 22, lines 44-53]
receive [a]] radio resource control (RRC) signaling used for indicating enabling or disabling [on]] of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback per HARQ process, and [pp. 6, lines 16-25, partitions HARQ processes into feedback-disabled and feedback-enabled sets which is indicating enable/disable per HARQ process]
receive a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); and [pp. 20, lines 17-25, receives a PDSCH]
transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the PDSCH based on the RRC signaling, wherein the receiving circuitry is further configured to receive [[an]] RRC signaling used for indicating, in a UE-specific manner, enabling or disabling [on]] of a HARQ feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmission. [pp. 20, lines 54-62, transmits HARQ feedback dependent on the configured enabled/disabled state]
Regarding claim 6, Muruganathan teaches a base station apparatus that communicates with a user equipment (UE), the base station apparatus comprising: [pp.14, lines 1-5]
transmitting circuitry configured to: [pp. 21, lines 22-28]
transmit [a]] radio resource control (RRC) signaling used for indicating enabling or disabling [[on]] of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback per HARQ process, and [pp. 20, lines 1-6, gNB transmits RRC signaling]
transmit a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); and [pp. 20, lines 17-25, receives a PDSCH]
receiving circuitry configured to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the PDSCH based on the RRC signaling, wherein the transmitting circuitry is further configured to transmit [[an]] RRC signaling used for indicating, in a UE-specific manner, enabling or disabling [[on]] of a HARQ feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmission. [pp. 20, lines 17-25, receives a PDSCH based on RRC the signaling (enabled or disabled)]
Regarding claim 11, Muruganathan teaches a communication method performed by a user equipment (UE) that communicates with a base station apparatus, the communication method comprising: [pp. 27, lines 12-15]
receiving [[a]] radio resource control (RRC) signaling used for indicating enabling or disabling [[on]] of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback per HARQ process; [pp. 6, lines 20-25, partitions HARQ processes into feedback-disabled and feedback-enabled sets which is indicating enable/disable per HARQ process]
receiving a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); [pp. 20, lines 17-25, receives a PDSCH]
transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the PDSCH based on the RRC signaling; and [pp. 20, lines 54-62, transmits HARQ feedback dependent on the configured enabled/disabled state]
receiving [[an]] RRC signaling used for indicating, in a UE-specific manner, enabling or disabling [[on]]of a HARQ feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmission. [pp. 20, lines 54-62, transmits HARQ feedback dependent on the configured enabled/disabled state]
Conclusion
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/AYAAN AYAZ SHEIKH/ Examiner, Art Unit 2463 /ASAD M NAWAZ/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2463
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