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
1. This communication is response to the application filed 11/14/2025 havingclaims 1-2,4-8,10 pending and presented for examination.
Priority
2. Application filed on 01/24/2024 is a 371 of PCT/KR2022/011616 08/05/2022
FOREIGN APPLICATIONS KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 10-2021-0103490 08/05/2021 are acknowledged.
Drawings
3. The drawings were received on 01/24/2024 and these drawings are accepted.
4. Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 01/24/2024, 2/4/2025+ are/is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Oath/Declaration
4. The Oath/Declaration filed on 01/24/2024 is accepted by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The factual inquiries set forth in Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 148 USPQ 459 (1966), that are applied for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
4. This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the claims the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the various claims was commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the claimed invention(s) absent any evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out the inventor and effective filing dates of each claim that was not commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the later invention in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(2)(C) for any potential 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) prior art against the later invention.
5. Claim(s) 1, 8, 10 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over of US PG Pub US 20240267161 A1 to XU et al (hereinafter XU).further view of US PG Pub US 20230422275 A1 to KIM et al (hereinafter KIM).
As per claim 1, (Currently Amended) XU teaches a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a base station, a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) including an initial transport block (TB) scheduled by a first multicast downlink control information (DCI) format (para 0190, fig. 13, UE is receiving from a base station first PDSCH with initial transport block base station schedules by a first multicast downlink control information (DCI) format);; transmitting, by the UE to the base station, a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a first hybrid automatic repeat and request-acknowledgement (HALRQ-ACK) codebook in response to the first PDSCH (para 0190, fig. 13, UE transmits a response back to the base station wherein the a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a first hybrid automatic repeat and);: receiving , by the UE from the base station, a second PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH (para 0190, fig. 13, UE receives second PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH); transmitting, by the UE to the base station, a second physical uplink control channel PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook (para 0190, fig. 13, , UE transmits a response back to the base station wherein the a second physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) el PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook);
KIM teaches transmitting, by the UE to the base station, a second physical uplink control channel PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook, wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook includes (i) a the first third HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format and (ii) a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one multicast DCI format including the first multicast DCI format (para 0168, 0230],UE is transmitting through uplink physical uplink control channel PUCCH including HARQ-ACK codebook wherein the codebook contain information include third HARQ-ACK codebook related unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format ). 20230422275
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date, to modify the combination system of XU by transmitting, by the UE to the base station, a second physical uplink control channel PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook, wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook includes (i) a the first third HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format and (ii) a fourth HALRQ-ACK codebook related to at least one multicast DCI format including the first multicast DCI format suggested by KIM, this modification would benefit XU for feedback procedure can be efficiently performed, and the performance of the communication system can be improved.
As per claim 8, (Currently Amended) XU teaches the user equipment (UE) , the UE comprising: at least one transceiver; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver; wherein the at least one processor is configured to: receive, from abase station through the at least one transceiver, a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) including an initial transport block (TB) scheduled by a first
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multicast downlink control information (DCI) format (para 0190, fig. 13, UE is receiving from a base station first PDSCH with initial transport block base station schedules by a first multicast downlink control information (DCI) format); transmit, to the base station through the at least one transceiver, a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a first hybrid automatic repeat and request- acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook in response to the first PDSCH (para 0190, fig. 13, UE transmits a response back to the base station wherein the a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a first hybrid automatic repeat and): receive, from the base station through the at least one transceiver, a second PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH (para 0190, fig. 13, UE receives second PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH); and transmit, to the base station through the at least one transceiver, a second PUCCH including a a second HARQ-ACK codebook (para 0190, fig. 13, , UE transmits a response back to the base station wherein the a second physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) el PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook);,
KIM teaches transmit, to the base station through the at least one transceiver, a second PUCCH including a a second HARQ-ACK codebook wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook includes (i) third HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format and (ii) a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one multicast DCI format including the first multicast DCI format (para 0168, 0230],UE is transmitting through uplink physical uplink control channel PUCCH including HARQ-ACK codebook wherein the codebook contain information include third HARQ-ACK codebook related unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format).
Examiner supplies the same rationale as supplied in claim 1.
As per claim 10, (Currently Amended) XU teaches the base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: at least one transceiver; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver[[;]] wherein the at least one processor is configured to: transmit, to a user equipment (UE) through the at least one transceiver, a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) including an initial transport block (TB) scheduled by a first multicast downlink control information (DCI) format ((para 0190, fig. 13, base station transmits to UE a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) including an initial transport block (TB) scheduled by a first multicast downlink control information (DCI) format ); receive, from the UE through the at least one transceiver, a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including a first hybrid automatic repeat and request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook in response to the first PDSCH (((para 0190, fig. 13, base station receives from the UE first hybrid automatic repeat and request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook in response to the first PDSCH):
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transmit, to the UE through the at least one transceiver, a second PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH (((para 0190, fig. 13, base station transmits another PDSCH including the initial TB scheduled by a first unicast DCI format based on the first PUCCH); receive, from the UE through the at least one transceiver, a second (PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook ((para 0190, fig. 13, base station receives from UE a second (PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook ),
KIM teaches receive, from the UE through the at least one transceiver, a second (PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codeboo, wherein the second HARQ-ACK codebook includes (i) a third HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format and (ii) a fourth HARQ-ACK codebook related to at least one multicast DCI format including the first multicast DCI format(para 0168, 0230],base station is receiving through uplink physical uplink control channel PUCCH including HARQ-ACK codebook wherein the codebook contain information include third HARQ-ACK codebook related unicast DCI format including the first unicast DCI format).
Examiner supplies the same rationale as supplied in claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 2, 4 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
Prior arts made of record, not relied upon: US Patent Publication US 20220287013 A1; US Patent Publication US 20220330271 A1, US Patent Publication US 20220322292 A1
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/ANEZ C EBRAHIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467