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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This office action is in reply communication filed on 06/14/2023.
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1-6, 8-15, and 17-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, the applicant regards as the invention.
Regarding claims 1, 10, 19, the claims recite the limitation “wherein a parameter K is a size of inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) of cyclic- prefix orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (CP-OFDMA)”. It is unclear the limitation “a parameter K is a size of IFFT of CP-OFDMA” has anything to do with the wake-up signal and its configuration when modulated using one-off keying (OOK) and generated by a multi-carrier amplitude shift-keying waveform. The functional steps for generate/transmit/receive the WUS using OOK and MC-ASK waveform generation do not indicate a relationship with parameter K tied to CP-OFDMA IFFT size.
Therefore, the claims are unclear and indefinite.
For the purpose of examination, examiner will interpret the claims as best understood.
All dependent claims 2-6, 8-9, 11-15, 17-18, and 20 are also rejected based on their rejected independent claims 1, 10, and 19 respectively.
Conclusion
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