Response to Amendment
This Office Action is in response to a communication received on July 15, 2025.
Claims 1-3 have been amended.
Claims 1-3 are pending in this application.
This application has been reassigned to a new examiner. Contact information of the new examiner is available at the end of the action.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments directed to the §102(a)(1) rejection of claims 1-3, as being anticipated by Kuo, is persuasive. Therefore, the rejection has been withdrawn. However, upon further consideration, a new ground(s) of rejection is made and was necessitated by the claim amendments.
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 1-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Tenny et al (US PGPUB 2023/0136875, hereinafter “Tenny”).
Regarding claim 1, Tenny teaches a third terminal apparatus (Fig 6, mapped to Relay UE) for communicating with a first terminal apparatus (Fig 6, mapped to Remote UE 1) and a second terminal apparatus (Fig 6, mapped to Remote UE 2), the third terminal apparatus being responsible to relay communication between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus (see Fig 6, ¶66-67, wherein the relay node is helping setup an end-to-end connection between remote U1 and remote UE2), the third terminal apparatus comprising:
a processing unit (¶34); and
a transmitter (¶34), wherein
the processing unit transmits a configuration to the second terminal apparatus, and the configuration is used by the third terminal apparatus to receive a sidelink transmission that is transmitted from the first terminal apparatus to the third terminal apparatus (¶¶68-70, wherein “a configuration” includes one or more values of the End-to-end identifier (see ¶70), wherein both the configuration between the Remote UE 1 and Relay UE and the configuration between the Relay UE and the Remote UE 2 can include the same configuration information for the RLC channels).
Regarding claim 2, Tenny teaches a second terminal apparatus (Fig 6, remote UE 2) for communicating with a first terminal apparatus (Fig. 6, Remote UE 1) via a third terminal apparatus (Fig. 6, Relay UE, the second terminal apparatus comprising:
a processing unit (¶34); and
a receiver configured to receive a configuration from the third terminal apparatus, wherein the configuration is used by the third terminal apparatus to receive a sidelink transmission, that is transmitted from the first terminal apparatus to the third terminal apparatus (¶¶68-70, wherein “a configuration” includes one or more values of the End-to-end identifier (see ¶70), wherein both the configuration between the Remote UE 1 and Relay UE and the configuration between the Relay UE and the Remote UE 2 can include the same configuration information for the RLC channels), and
the processing unit applies the configuration to the second terminal apparatus (¶71, wherein the end-to-end identifier plus other configuration values are applied to the Remote UE 2 to establish the second leg of the communication between the relate UE and the Remote UE 2).
Regarding claim 3, Tenny teaches a method performed by a third terminal apparatus (Fig 6, mapped to Relay UE) for communicating with a first terminal apparatus (Fig 6, mapped to Remote UE 1) and a second terminal apparatus(Fig 6, mapped to Remote UE 2), the third terminal apparatus being responsible to relay communication between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus (see Fig 6, ¶66-67, wherein the relay node is helping setup an end-to-end connection between remote U1 and remote UE2), the method comprising:
transmitting a configuration to the second terminal apparatus, wherein the configuration is used by the third terminal apparatus to receive a sidelink transmission, that is transmitted from the first terminal apparatus to the third terminal apparatus(¶¶68-70, wherein “a configuration” includes one or more values of the End-to-end identifier (see ¶70), wherein both the configuration between the Remote UE 1 and Relay UE and the configuration between the Relay UE and the Remote UE 2 can include the same configuration information for the RLC channels).
Citation of Pertinent Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
U.S. Patent No. 2021/0352767 because it teaches specific communication to establish sidelink relay communications.
Conclusion
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