DETAILED ACTION
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 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.
This action is responsive to the RCE filed on 7/3/23.
Claim(s) 1-20 is/are presented for examination.
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 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 of this title, 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) 1-3, 6, 8-10, 13, 15-16 & 19 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Liu, U.S. Pub/Patent No. US 2022/0272557 A1 in view of Li, U.S. Patent/Pub. No. US 2023/0421233 A1, and further in view of Yang, US 2022/0377750 A1.
As to claim 1, Liu teaches a wireless device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:
receive one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating:
an uplink transmission in a set of symbols;
receive downlink control information (DCI)-via at least one PDCCH monitoring occasion of PDCCH monitoring occasions, wherein the DCI indicates reception of a downlink signal in a subset of symbols from the set of symbols configured for the uplink transmission (Liu, page 4, paragraph 50-51; page 9, paragraph 107 & 110; page 10, paragraph 131; i.e., [0107] Then, slot-based aggregation can be implemented in dynamic grant cases, or slot-based repetition can be implemented. repetition transmission of dynamic grant PUSCH or configured grant PUSCH with granularity of mini-slot. [0050] Semistatic flexible resource can be further configured by the base station as uplink resource or downlink resource by dynamic slot format configuration. In other words, uplink transmission ( e.g., PUSCH) or downlink transmission ( e.g., PDSCH) can be scheduled on the semi-static flexible resource. The UE still needs to monitor the PDCCH in the corresponding PDCCH monitoring occasions scheduled or located at the semi-static flexible resource. [0131] the repetition transmission information can also be carried in PDSCH, PDCCH);
transmit a PDCCH monitoring occasion that ends latest among the PDCCH monitoring occasions (Liu, page 2, paragraph 25; page 3, paragraph 28-29; page 5, paragraph 62; i.e., [0028] cancels the uplink transmission on the originally allocated uplink transmission resource (e.g., the PUSCH 134). [0062] monitoring occasion located in a downlink symbol of symbols before a start position of the uplink transmission of the PUSCH 225. indicates that the UL CI monitoring occasions end and CI2 are located in downlink symbols, the UL CI monitoring occasion CI2 is the latest UL CI monitoring occasion in a downlink symbol).
But Liu failed to teach the claim limitation wherein two search space sets linked for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition; and receive PDCCH monitoring occasions of the two search space sets; transmit the uplink transmission in one or more symbols, of the set of symbols, that occur before a processing time from a last symbol; cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols from the set of symbols.
However, Li teaches the limitation wherein two search space sets linked for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition; and receive PDCCH monitoring occasions of the two search space sets (Li, page 1, paragraph 19; page 5, paragraph 77; i.e., [0019] The multiple repetitions of PDCCH may be transmitted in different search space sets or different PDCCH candidates in one CORESET; [0077] Multiple repetitions of PDCCH may be transmitted in different search space sets or different PDCCH candidates in one CORESET).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective date of the claimed invention to modify Liu to substitute different transmission occasions toward different TRPs from Li for time interval from Liu to ensure the PUCCH repetition targeting towards different TRPs can avoid possible blockage between any TRP and the UE (Li, page 1, paragraph 5).
However, Yang teaches the limitation wherein transmit the uplink transmission in one or more symbols, of the set of symbols, that occur before a processing time from a last symbol (Yang, page 15, paragraph 204-206; 211-212; i.e., [0205] the UE cancels the transmission of the second PUSCH or the second PUCCH before the first symbol that would overlap with the first PUCCH transmission, and no early than a delay after a last symbol of the corresponding PDCCH reception; [0212] the gNB cancels the reception of the second PUSCH or the second PUCCH before the first symbol that would overlap with the first PUCCH transmission, and no early than a delay after a last symbol of the corresponding PDCCH transmission); cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols from the set of symbols (Yang, page 15, paragraph 204-206; 211-212; i.e., [0205] the UE cancels the transmission of the second PUSCH or the second PUCCH before the first symbol that would overlap with the first PUCCH transmission, and no early than a delay after a last symbol of the corresponding PDCCH reception; [0212] the gNB cancels the reception of the second PUSCH or the second PUCCH before the first symbol that would overlap with the first PUCCH transmission, and no early than a delay after a last symbol of the corresponding PDCCH transmission).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective date of the claimed invention to modify Liu to substitute uplink control information (UCI) from Yang for DCI from Liu to improve communication flexibility and/or efficiency may be beneficial (Yang, page 1, paragraph 5).
As to claim 2, Liu-Li-Yang teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processing time is determined based on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing time starting after the last symbol of the PDCCH monitoring occasion (Liu, page 5, paragraph 62; i.e., [0062] the UE begins the monitoring in an UL CI monitoring occasion that is the latest UL CI monitoring occasion located in a downlink symbol of symbols before a start position of the uplink transmission of the PUSCH 225. In that regard, the UE can determine that the ending positions of all of the UL CI monitoring occasions cn-CI4 are no later than X symbols before the start of the UL transmission of the PUSCH 225).
As to claim 3, Liu-Li-Yang teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 2, wherein the one or more symbols occur after the end of the PUSCH processing time (Liu, page 7, paragraph 77-79; i.e., [0079] the UE begins the monitoring in an UL CI monitoring occasion (e.g., the UL CI monitoring occasion CI2 in FIG. 4) that is the latest UL CI monitoring occasion located in a downlink symbol (e.g., as indicated by the TDD-UL-DLConfigCommon) that ends ( e.g., having an end position that is) no later than a predetermined number ( e.g., X) of symbols before a start position of the uplink transmission of the PUSCH).
As to claim 6, Liu-Li-Yang teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein
the downlink signal is at least one of: a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission; or a channel-state-information reference signal (CSI-RS) (Liu, page 10, paragraph 131; i.e., [0131] reference to uplink PUSCH as an example, the repetition transmission information can also be carried in PDSCH, PDCCH); and
the uplink transmission is at least one of: a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; or a physical random-access channel (PRACH) transmission (Liu, page 4, paragraph 48; i.e., [0048] In some embodiments, the PUSCH (e.g., the PUSCH 134). Those uplink transmissions on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The other types of uplink transmissions can be uplink transmissions communicated on the PUCCH, SRS, PRACH, and so on).
Claim(s) 8-10, 13 & 15-16, 19 is/are directed to a system and non-transitory computer readable medium claims and they do not teach or further define over the limitations recited in claim(s) 1-3, 6. Therefore, claim(s) 8-10, 13 & 15-16, 19 is/are also rejected for similar reasons set forth in claim(s) 1-3, 6.
Claim(s) 4-5, 7, 11-12, 14, 17-18 & 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Liu, U.S. Pub/Patent No. US 2022/0272557 A1 in view of Li, U.S. Patent/Pub. No. US 2023/0421233 A1, and Yang, US 2022/0377750 A1, and further in view of Chen, U.S. Patent/Pub. No. US 2022/0240181 A1.
As to claim 4, Liu-Li-Yang teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 1. But Liu-Li-Yang failed to teach the claim limitation wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to not cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols, of the set of symbols, that occur before the processing time.
However, Chen teaches the limitation wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to not cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols, of the set of symbols, that occur before the processing time (Chen, page 2, paragraph 32; i.e., [0032] Further, in a case that the terminal does not detect the uplink cancellation signaling at the first moment, the terminal skips canceling the uplink transmission).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective date of the claimed invention to modify Liu-Li-Yang to substitute CSI from Chen for preemption status from Liu-Li-Yang to ensure the reliability of the URLLC transmission (Chen, page 1, paragraph 5).
As to claim 5, Liu-Li-Yang-Chen teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 4, wherein the one or more remaining symbols are within a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing time starting after the last symbol of the PDCCH monitoring occasion (Liu, page 5, paragraph 62; i.e., [0062] the UE begins the monitoring in an UL CI monitoring occasion that is the latest UL CI monitoring occasion located in a downlink symbol of symbols before a start position of the uplink transmission of the PUSCH 225. In that regard, the UE can determine that the ending positions of all of the UL CI monitoring occasions cn-CI4 are no later than X symbols before the start of the UL transmission of the PUSCH 225).
As to claim 7, Liu-Li-Yang teaches the wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the subset of symbols comprises the one or more symbols (Liu, page 3, paragraph 36; i.e., [0036] NsI=rTcJGd bits of a field in UL CI (e.g., in DCI format 2_ 4) have one-to-one mapping with NsI groups of symbols, where each of the first Nsr T cr~l T cJNsIJ-NsI groups includes l T cJNsIJ symbols, and each of the remaining T crl T cJNsIJ-NsI groups includes rTcJNsil symbols.).
But Liu-Li-Yang failed to teach the claim limitation wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to not cancel one or more second symbols of the set of symbols that occur after the subset of symbols based on the uplink transmission being a sounding reference signal (SRS); the one or more remaining symbols are from the subset of symbols based on the uplink transmission being the SRS.
However, Chen teaches the limitation wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to not cancel one or more second symbols of the set of symbols that occur after the subset of symbols based on the uplink transmission being a sounding reference signal (SRS) (Chen, page 2, paragraph 32; i.e., [0032] Further, in a case that the terminal does not detect the uplink cancellation signaling at the first moment, the terminal skips canceling the uplink transmission).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective date of the claimed invention to modify Liu-Li-Yang to substitute CSI from Chen for preemption status from Liu-Li-Yang to ensure the reliability of the URLLC transmission (Chen, page 1, paragraph 5).
Claim(s) 11-12, 14 & 17-18, 20 is/are directed to a system and non-transitory computer readable medium claims and they do not teach or further define over the limitations recited in claim(s) 4-5, 20. Therefore, claim(s) 11-12, 14 & 17-18, 20 is/are also rejected for similar reasons set forth in claim(s) 4-5, 20.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1-20 has/have been considered but are moot in view of the new ground(s) of rejection. Applicant’s arguments include the failure of previously applied art to expressly disclose “cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols from the set of symbols” (see Applicant’s response, 7/10/26, page 10-11). It is evident from the detailed mappings found in the above rejection(s) that Yang disclosed this functionality (see Yang, page 15, paragraph 204-206; 211-212). Further, it is clear from the numerous teachings (previously and currently cited) that the provision for “cancel the uplink transmission in one or more remaining symbols from the set of symbols” was widely implemented in the networking art. Thus, Applicant’s arguments drawn toward distinction of the claimed invention and the prior art teachings on this point are not considered persuasive.
Listing of Relevant Arts
Liu, U.S. Patent/Pub. No. US 20230299893 A1 discloses different search space sets, repeated PDCCH.
Chen, U.S. Patent/Pub. No. US 20230269753 A1 discloses two search space sets and PDCCH and PDSCH repetition.
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