DETAILED ACTION
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 .
This Office action is in response to the Application filed on 01/26/2024.
Claims 1-2 are presented for examination.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed on 08/05/2021.
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.
Claims 1-2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
As to Claims 1-2, the term “RRC” is indefinite because it is an abbreviation that is not defined, and it is unclear whether it stands for “Radio Resource Control”.
As to claims 1-2, the term “PUSCH” is indefinite because it is an abbreviation that is not defined, and it is unclear whether it stands for “Physical Uplink Shared Channel”.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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 the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by FENG et al. (US 2024/0276487 A1).
As to claims 1-2, FENG discloses the invention as claimed, including a user equipment (UE) (Fig. 1, 10) comprising:
high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire a first RRC parameter, a second RRC parameter, a third RRC parameter, and a fourth RRC parameter (Table 1; Table 11; ¶0072, “scheduled by a UL grant or RRC in the consecutive available slots. This method is called PUSCH repetition Type A, in which each slot contains only one repetition and the time domain for the repetitions of a transport block is the same in those slots as shown in FIG. 3”; ¶0075, “two types of transmission without dynamic grant are known as configured grant Type 1 and configured grant Type 2. In the configured grant Type 1, an uplink grant is provided by RRC”’ ¶0077, “PUSCH scheduled by DCI 0_2, an FH type is indicated by the higher layer parameter “frequency Hopping-ForDCIFormat0_2” in IE pusch-Config”; ¶0078, “DCI but not DCI 0_2, FH type is indicated by the higher layer parameter “frequency Hopping” in IE pusch-Config”; ¶0079, “PUSCH scheduled by the configured Grant type 1. FH type is indicated and FH is enabled by the same higher layer parameter “frequency Hopping” in IE ConfigredGrantConfig”; ¶0080, “PUSCH is scheduled by the configured Grant type 2 and DCI. FH type is indicated by higher layer parameter is “frequency Hopping” in IE ConfigredGrantConfig”; ¶0082, “PUSCH is scheduled by DCI 0_2, FH type is indicated by the higher layer parameter “frequency Hopping-ForDCIFormat0_2”; ¶0083, “PUSCH is scheduled by DCI 0_1. FH type is indicated by the higher layer parameter “frequency Hopping-ForDCIFormat0_1”; ¶0084, “PUSCH is scheduled by the configured Grant type 1, FH type is indicated and FH is enabled by the same higher layer parameter “frequency HoppingPUSCH-RepTypeB”; ¶0093, “The bundling size should be configured by higher layer parameter (e.g. PUSCH configuration or configured UL grant) or a DCI (e.g. DCI 0_x) field explicitly or implicitly”), and
transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH in multiple slots (Fig. 4; ¶0033, “FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic view showing an example of TB over multi-slot (TBoMS) PUSCH”; ¶0066, “PUSCH transmission across multiple slots, it may refer to four PUSCH types”),
wherein
in a case that the first RRC parameter is set to pusch-RepTypeB (Table 1, “PUSCH Repetition Type B), the transmission circuitry is configured to perform frequency hopping (i.e., FH) for the PUSCH transmission based on the second RRC parameter set to interRepetition or interSlot (Table 1, “Interslot FH”, “Inter-repetition FH”; ¶0081, “PUSCH repetition type B can support inter-slot and inter-repetition frequency hopping”; ¶0086, “the repetition type comprises an indication of a repetition type A or a repetition type B of the repetitions of the transport block. In the repetition type A, two adjacent repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are separately allocated to two slots. In the repetition type B, two adjacent nominal repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are back-to-back allocated to one or more adjacent slots. The frequency hopping (FH) type of the frequency hopping function indicates one of the intra-slot FH or inter-slot FH applicable to the repetition type A, one of inter-slot FH or inter-repetition FH applicable to the repetition type B”; ¶0090, “PUSCH repetition Type B over multiple slots with inter-repetition FH and with inter-repetition bundling”),
in a case that the first RRC parameter is set to pusch-RepTypeA (Table 1, “PUSCH Repetition Type A), the transmission circuitry is configured to perform frequency hopping for the PUSCH transmission based on the third RRC parameter set to interRepetition, interSlot, or intraSlot (Table 1, “Intraslot FH”, “Interslot FH”; ¶0051, “The mode configuration of the frequency hopping function comprises frequency hopping type indicating intra-slot frequency hopping or inter-slot frequency hopping”; ¶0086, “the repetition type comprises an indication of a repetition type A or a repetition type B of the repetitions of the transport block. In the repetition type A, two adjacent repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are separately allocated to two slots. In the repetition type B, two adjacent nominal repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are back-to-back allocated to one or more adjacent slots. The frequency hopping (FH) type of the frequency hopping function indicates one of the intra-slot FH or inter-slot FH applicable to the repetition type A, one of inter-slot FH or inter-repetition FH applicable to the repetition type B”; ¶0087, “The mode configuration of the frequency hopping function comprises frequency hopping type indicating intra-slot frequency hopping or inter-slot frequency hopping”; ¶0090, “PUSCH repetition Type A with inter-slot bundling. Case 2 shows PUSCH repetition Type A with inter-slot FH and with inter-repetition bundling),
in a case that the first RRC parameter is set to pusch-RepTypeB and the second RRC parameter is not configured, the transmission circuitry is configured not to perform frequency hopping (i.e., without Frequency Hopping (FH)) for the PUSCH transmission (Table 11, “PUSCH repetition Type B”, “without frequency hopping (FH)”; ¶0086, “the repetition type comprises an indication of a repetition type A or a repetition type B of the repetitions of the transport block. In the repetition type A, two adjacent repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are separately allocated to two slots. In the repetition type B, two adjacent nominal repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are back-to-back allocated to one or more adjacent slots. The frequency hopping (FH) type of the frequency hopping function indicates one of the intra-slot FH or inter-slot FH applicable to the repetition type A, one of inter-slot FH or inter-repetition FH applicable to the repetition type B”; ¶0098, “PUSCH repetition Type B over multiple slots without inter-slot FH and with inter-slot bundling. Case 8 is an example of PUSCH repetition Type B over multiple slots without inter-slot FH”; ¶0168, “FIG. 15 shows a type B like example of TBoMS PUSCH scheduling with inter-slot TDW and without FH”), and
in a case that the first RRC parameter is set to pusch-RepTypeA and the third RRC parameter is not configured (i.e., third frequency hopping mode is not configured), the transmission circuitry is configured to perform frequency hopping for the PUSCH transmission based on the fourth RRC parameter set to interSlot or intraSlot (Table 1, “Intra-slot”, “Inter-slot”; Table 11, “Intra-slot”, “Inter-slot”) (Table 11, “PUSCH repetition Type A”, “Intra-slot FH”, “Inter-slot FH”; ¶0086, “the repetition type comprises an indication of a repetition type A or a repetition type B of the repetitions of the transport block. In the repetition type A, two adjacent repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are separately allocated to two slots. In the repetition type B, two adjacent nominal repetitions in the repetitions of the transport block are back-to-back allocated to one or more adjacent slots. The frequency hopping (FH) type of the frequency hopping function indicates one of the intra-slot FH or inter-slot FH applicable to the repetition type A, one of inter-slot FH or inter-repetition FH applicable to the repetition type B”; ¶0098, “Table 11 shows possible bundling combinations for PUSCH repetition type A/B. With reference to FIG. 5, Case 5 is an example of PUSCH repetition Type A with inter-slot FH and without inter-slot bundling. Case 6 is an example of PUSCH repetition Type A with inter-slot FH and without inter-repetition”; ¶0168, “a type A like example of TBoMS PUSCH scheduling with inter-slot TDW and without FH, a type A like example of multi-PUSCH scheduling with inter-TB TDW and without FH”).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
SHEN et al. (US 2024/0356691 A1), QIAO (US 2024/0380531 A1), GUO et al. (US 2024/0314771 A1), KHOSHNEVISAN et al. (US 2021/0218437 A1) disclose method and apparatus for physical uplink shared channel repetition with frequency hopping.
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/JUNGWON CHANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2454 February 7, 2026