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 .
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
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) 1-11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over RYDÉN WO 2022084457 in view of Harrebek US 20210006438
1. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
[[one or more memories]]; and
one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to: transmit a capability indicator identifying an interference pattern monitoring capability (RYDÉN: fig. 9-11 [0070-0071, 0080-0081, 0106-0107] a capable UE can indicate that it is able to use AI/ML techniques to learn what signals are from neighboring nodes with respect to its serving node by observing RSRP, reference signal received quality (RSRQ));
receive, based at least in part on transmission the capability indicator, a request to monitor for a set of interference patterns (RYDÉN: fig. 9-11 [0070] based on the UE capabilities, the gNB configures the UE of the time/frequency resources of which the UE can use for predicting a future interference value); and
transmit, as a response to the request, a report regarding the set of interference patterns (RYDÉN: fig. 11 [0116] - transmitting (1105) the at least one prediction of future interference to the network node).
RYDÉN merely discloses the term “one or more memories”
Harrebek further teaches the term one or more memories (Harrebek: [0005] The at least one memory and computer program code may be configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to provide, to a serving network node, capability information indicating at least a capability of the apparatus to search for sounding reference signal (SRS) timing, receive sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration in a measurement request from the serving network node, perform at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement as specified in the sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration, and report, to the serving network node, cross link interference (CLI) sounding reference signal (SRS) reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement results)
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited claim invention into RYDÉN’s invention in order to processing the measurement results for use in cross link interference (CLI) mitigation planning, as taught by Harrebek.
2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the interference pattern monitoring capability includes a maximum quantity of interference patterns to be monitored or tracked (RYDÉN: [0066]; Harrebek: [0009]).
3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the interference pattern monitoring capability is specific to one or more bandwidth parts or carriers (RYDÉN: [0064] capability of the UE associated to a given operational BW).
4. The UE of claim 1, wherein the request to monitor for the set of interference patterns includes a request to identify a pattern or a source of the set of interference patterns (RYDÉN: fig. 12, step 1201).
5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: determine the set of interference patterns based at least in part on at least one of: a demodulation reference signal, an interference metric, or a noise metric (RYDÉN: [0081, 0107] e.g., allow to measure interference power received from neighbor cells).
6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: receive a communication configuration associated with configuration of demodulation reference signal or physical downlink shared channel puncturing; and determine the set of interference patterns based at least in part on the demodulation reference signal or physical downlink shared channel puncturing (RYDÉN: [0045] e.g., not transmitting any signal over certain resources).
7. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: request configuration of a channel state information interference measurement resource; receive a communication configuration associated with configuring the channel state information interference measurement resource; and determine the set of interference patterns based at least in part on the channel state information interference measurement resource (RYDÉN: [0025, 0071-0073]).
8. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: map a set of identifiers to the set of interference patterns; and identify one or more interference patterns, of the set of interference patterns, in one or more communications using a corresponding one or more identifiers, of the set of identifiers (RYDÉN: fig. 2, 4 [0045, 0050-0063m 0086] CSI-IM (Interference Measurement) resources).
9. The UE of claim 1, wherein the report includes information identifying at least one of: an identifier mapped to an interference pattern of the set of interference patterns, an interference duration, an interference frequency, a predicted on duration, a rank, an interference power, a predicted end to the interference pattern, a predicted next interference pattern of the set of interference patterns, or a previously observed interference pattern of the set of interference patterns (RYDÉN: [0050, 0083] predicted time-window).
10. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: receive information identifying a resource identification of an update to the set of interference patterns, the resource being a periodic resource or a dynamically configured resource; and transmit information identifying the update to the set of interference patterns using the resource (RYDÉN: [0057] periodically).
11. The UE of claim 1, wherein the report is included in a channel state information configuration report (RYDÉN: [0081] CSI).
Claim(s) 12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over RYDÉN-Harrebek further in view of SANDBERG US 20210328746
12. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: receive downlink control information identifying communication configuration information, the downlink control information being based at least in part on the report (SANDBERG: [0008, 0051] PDCCH or DCI).
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited claim invention into RYDÉN’s invention in order to dynamically indicated in the activation DCI from a set of preconfigured values, as taught by SANDBERG.
Regarding claims 19-27, 31-39 the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1-12, where the difference used is a “network device & UE” with a processor and a memory (Harrebek: Referring to FIG. 9, includes a processor 12, a memory 14) and the wordings of the claims were interchanged within the claim itself or some of the claims were presented as a combination of two or more previously presented limitations. This change does not affect the limitation of the above treated claims. Adding these phrases to the claims arid interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore, these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above.
Remark(s)
Applicant's remark(s) filed on 12/19/25 have been fully considered.
Claims 1-12, 19-27, 31-39 are drawn to the elected Group I.
Claims 13-18, 28-30 are withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a non-elected invention, Group II, in accordance with the restriction requirement mailed on 10/27/25, which was elected without traverse.
Conclusion
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/SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415