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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 .
The Preliminary Amendment filed 1/22/2024 has been considered and entered. Claims 1-7 and 10-14 are still pending in this Office action.
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 6 recites the limitations "the greedy detections" in line 2, “the index vectors" in line 3, “the confirmed values" in line 4, “the greedy selection" in line 5, and “the currently decoded indices" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Comments: "the greedy detections", “the index vectors", “the confirmed values", “the greedy selection", and “the currently decoded indices" are not mentioned previously.
Claim 14 recites the limitations "the greedy detections" in lines 1-2, “the index vectors" in line 2, “the confirmed values" in line 4, “the greedy selection" in line 5, and “the currently decoded indices" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Comments: "the greedy detections", “the index vectors", “the confirmed values", “the greedy selection", and “the currently decoded indices" are not mentioned previously.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-5 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding claim 1, WANG et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/0327757 A1, either singularly or in combination cannot teach or suggest the following underlined uniquely distinct features used in combination with other claimed elements cited in the application claim “whereby if the soft interference cancel check result is negative the calculation of residual mean and variance is performed; and whereby if the soft interference cancel check result is positive the extrinsic mean and variance is calculated directly; calculating the extrinsic mean and variance, whereby, if the soft interference and cancel check result is negative, the calculation of residual mean and variance is used, calculating of tentative estimates, whereby the calculation of tentative estimation includes activity factors calculation, determining whether a condition of reaching a maximum is fulfilled, whereby if the condition of reaching the maximum fulfilled check result is negative, soft interference cancel check is performed, and whereby, if the condition of reaching the maximum fulfilled check result is positive the proceeding ends”.
Claims 7 and 10-13 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding claim 7, WANG et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/0327757 A1, either singularly or in combination cannot teach or suggest the following underlined uniquely distinct features used in combination with other claimed elements cited in the application claim “whereby if the soft interference cancel check result is negative the calculation of residual mean and variance is performed; and whereby if the soft interference cancel check result is positive the extrinsic mean and variance is calculated directly; calculating the extrinsic mean and variance, whereby, if the soft interference and cancel check result is negative, the calculation of residual mean and variance is used, calculating of tentative estimates, whereby the calculation of tentative estimation includes activity factors calculation, determining whether a condition of reaching a maximum is fulfilled, whereby if the condition of reaching the maximum fulfilled check result is negative, soft interference cancel check is performed, and whereby, if the condition of reaching the maximum fulfilled check result is positive the proceeding ends”.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
WANG et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/0327757 A1 discloses “Detection Method and Apparatus for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Single-Carrier Block Transmission System”.
Kim et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/0327757 A1 discloses “Iterative Estimator and Method of Channel and Noise Variance for Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing System”.
Horn et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/0327757 A1 discloses “Orbital Angular Momentum Signaling”.
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