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 .
This is a Non-final action for application number 18/290,617 in response to an original application filed on 01/19/2024.
Claims 1-15 and 21-25 are currently pending and have been considered below.
Claims 16-20 have been cancelled.
Claims 1, 14 and 15 are independent claims.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS), submitted on 04/09/2024 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
Claims 1-8, 14-15 and 21-25 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Li et al. (US 2021/0227602 A1) in view of Khoryaev et al. (US 2020/0229171 A1).
Regarding claims 1, 14 and 15, a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, the method comprising:
obtaining information related to a sidelink (SL) resource pool, [A UE can be configured by higher layers with one or more sidelink resource pools. A sidelink resource pool can be for transmission of PSSCH, (Li et al., Paragraph 133)],
triggering a resource selection procedure, [in resource allocation mode 2, the higher layer can request the UE to determine a subset of resources from which the higher layer will select resources for PSSCH/PSCCH transmission. To trigger this procedure, in slot n, the higher layer provides the following parameters for this PSSCH/PSCCH transmission: the resource pool from which the resources are to be reported, (Li et al., Paragraph 156)],
and determining, based on that the resource selection procedure is triggered, a plurality of SL candidate resources in the SL resource pool within a selection window, [the set of candidate slots may be included within a time interval of selection window. The time interval of selection window may start T.sub.1 after sidelink resource (re-)selection trigger, and may be bounded by at least T.sub.2 and/or a remaining packet delay budget, (Li et al., Paragraph 322)],
and wherein the conflict resource is excluded from the plurality of SL candidate resources, [When the UE is configured by upper layers to transmit using resource pools on multiple carriers, it shall exclude a candidate single-subframe resource R.sub.x,y from S.sub.B if the UE does not support transmission in the candidate single-subframe resource in the carrier under the assumption that transmissions take place in other carrier(s) using the already selected resources due to its limitation in the number of simultaneous transmission carriers, (Li et al., Paragraph 56)],
Li et al. fails to explicitly teach wherein information related to a conflict resource is transferred from a medium access control (MAC) layer of the first device to a physical layer of the first device,
Khoryaev et al. teaches that If UE detects through SCI decoding that recently announced transmissions from other UEs collide with tentatively selected candidate resources for transmission (R), UE reselects R tentative candidate resources from candidate resource set to avoid conflict (e.g. by excluding conflicting candidate resources), (Khoryaev et al., Paragraph 141),
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention was made to modify Li et al. by including that the information related to a conflict resource is transferred from a medium access control (MAC) layer of the first device to a physical layer of the first device, (Khoryaev et al., Paragraph 141), in order to enable efficient operation of sensing-based resource selection, (Khoryaev et al., Paragraph 29).
Regarding claims 2, 21 and 24, the method wherein the conflict resource is a resource in which different radio access technology (RAT)-based transmissions overlap, [If a PSSCH scheduled by a PSCCH would overlap with resources containing the PSCCH, the resources corresponding to a union of the PSCCH that scheduled the PSSCH and associated PSCCH DM-RS are not available for the PSSCH, (Li et al., Paragraph 155)].
Regarding claims 3, 22 and 25, the method wherein the conflict resource is a resource in which different radio access technology (RAT)-based transmission and reception overlap, [If a PSSCH scheduled by a PSCCH would overlap with resources containing the PSCCH, the resources corresponding to a union of the PSCCH that scheduled the PSSCH and associated PSCCH DM-RS are not available for the PSSCH, (Li et al., Paragraph 155)].
Regarding claims 4 and 23, the method further comprising: receiving, from a second device, resource information for avoiding in-device coexistence (IDC) interference of the second device, [the UE may require performing sensing before selecting a resource for transmission (e.g., sensing-based transmission), in order to avoid resource collision and interference from or to other UEs, (Li et al., Paragraph 313)].
Regarding claim 5, the method of claim 4, wherein the resource information includes information related to a resource preferred by the second device for avoiding the IDC interference or information related to a resource non-preferred by the second device for avoiding the IDC interference, [UE reselects R tentative candidate resources from candidate resource set to avoid conflict (e.g. by excluding conflicting candidate resources, (Khoryaev et al., Paragraph 141)].
Regarding claim 6, the method of claim 4, wherein the resource information is received through a PC5 radio resource control (RRC) connection between the first device and the second device, [The LWA operation may involve the UE 501b in RRC CONNECTED being configured by a RAN node 511a-b to utilize radio resources of LTE and WLAN. LWIP operation may involve the UE 501b using WLAN radio resources, (Khoryaev et al., Paragraph 175)].
Regarding claim 7, the method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving, from a second device, information related to a carrier causing in-device coexistence (IDC) interference of the second device, [the UE may require performing sensing before selecting a resource for transmission (e.g., sensing-based transmission), in order to avoid resource collision and interference from or to other UEs, (Li et al., Paragraph 313)].
Regarding claim 8, the method of claim 1, further comprising: selecting at least one SL transmission resource among the plurality of SL candidate resources, [Figure 14, Step 1405, the first device (is triggered or requested to) performs sidelink resource selection or reselection procedure for a sidelink transmission to a second device, (Li et al., Paragraph 476)].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 9-13 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/SHUKRI TAHA/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2478