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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 (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 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.
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.
Claim(s) 1 and 4-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Hosseinian et al. (US 2022/0303065; hereinafter Hosseinian) in view of R1-2104512 – UE Feedback Enhancements for HARQ-ACK – CATT; hereinafter R1-2104512). Note: Subject matter relied upon in the rejections are supported in provisional application 63/163,578 of Hosseinian.
Regarding claim 1, Hosseinian shows a terminal (Figure 9 shows a UE), comprising:
a control section (Figure 9; processing circuit 920) that multiplexes, with each other, a first codebook included in a first slot and a second codebook included in a second slot (Figure 8; Par. 0060; Once the UE determines the dynamic grant (DG) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (A/N) codebook according to the (e.g., Type-2) HARQ-ACK codebook pseudo-code, it adds an semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) A/N codebook, to form (from the two codebooks) the HARQ-ACK codebook to be transmitted back to the gNB. The A/N of the SPS PDSCH is mapped to the same PUCCH slot/sub-slot as the DG A/N bits), the first codebook being for a response signal in a dynamically-scheduled signal (Par. 0059-0060; DG A/N codebook as a response to a DG PDSCH.), the second codebook being for a response signal in a semi-persistently-scheduled signal (Par. 0059-0060; SPS A/N codebook as a response to a SPS PDSCH.); and
a transmission section (Figure 9; radio 915) that transmits the multiplexed first codebook and the second codebook (Figure 8; Par. 0060; HARQ-ACK codebook transmitted back to the gNB.).
Hosseinian shows all of the elements except the second slot being a slot that is on an uplink cell different from that of the first slot and that overlaps with the first slot.
However, the above-mentioned claim limitations are well-established in the art as evidenced by R1-2104512. Specifically, R1-2104512 shows the second slot being a slot that is on an uplink cell different from that of the first slot and that overlaps with the first slot (Figure 3; page 3, last paragraph; SPS HARQ-ACK in slot n in CC1 multiplexed with dynamic HARQ-ACK in slot 2n in CC2. Slot 2n overlaps with slot n.).
In view of the above, having the system of Hosseinian, then given the well-established teaching of R1-2104512, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Hosseinian as taught by R1-2104512, in order to provide motivation to allow efficient usage of resources available to the network (page 3, last paragraph of R1-2104512).
Regarding claim 4, modified Hosseinian shows wherein the control section multiplexes the first codebook and the second codebook with each other, based on a slot set that is a union of a first candidate received signal slot set in which a plurality of the response signals is bundled to the first code book and a second candidate received signal slot set in which a plurality of the response signals is bundled to the second code book (Hosseinian: Figure 8; Par. 0036; The HARQ-ACK codebook defines the format used to signal a set of HARQ acknowledgments to the gNB. The codebook allows the UE to multiplex the HARQ acknowledgments from multiple slots, multiple carriers, multiple HARQ processes, multiple Transport Blocks (TB), and multiple Code Block Groups (CBG), within a single transmission.).
Regarding claim 5, Hosseinian shows a radio communication method (Figure 8 shows a method.), comprising:
multiplexing, with each other, a first codebook included in a first slot and a second codebook included in a second slot (Figure 8; Par. 0060; Once the UE determines the dynamic grant (DG) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (A/N) codebook according to the (e.g., Type-2) HARQ-ACK codebook pseudo-code, it adds an semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) A/N codebook, to form (from the two codebooks) the HARQ-ACK codebook to be transmitted back to the gNB. The A/N of the SPS PDSCH is mapped to the same PUCCH slot/sub-slot as the DG A/N bits), the first codebook being for a response signal in a dynamically-scheduled signal (Par. 0059-0060; DG A/N codebook as a response to a DG PDSCH.), the second codebook being for a response signal in a semi-persistently-scheduled signal (Par. 0059-0060; SPS A/N codebook as a response to a SPS PDSCH.); and
transmitting the multiplexed first codebook and the second codebook (Figure 8; Par. 0060; HARQ-ACK codebook transmitted back to the gNB.).
Hosseinian shows all of the elements except the second slot being a slot that is on an uplink cell different from that of the first slot and that overlaps with the first slot.
However, the above-mentioned claim limitations are well-established in the art as evidenced by R1-2104512. Specifically, R1-2104512 shows the second slot being a slot that is on an uplink cell different from that of the first slot and that overlaps with the first slot (Figure 3; page 3, last paragraph; SPS HARQ-ACK in slot n in CC1 multiplexed with dynamic HARQ-ACK in slot 2n in CC2. Slot 2n overlaps with slot n.).
In view of the above, having the system of Hosseinian, then given the well-established teaching of R1-2104512, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Hosseinian as taught by R1-2104512, in order to provide motivation to allow efficient usage of resources available to the network (page 3, last paragraph of R1-2104512).
Claim(s) 2-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Hosseinian in view of R1-2104512 and Wu (US 2024/0007228; hereinafter Wu).
Regarding claim 2, modified Hosseinian shows all of the elements except wherein the control section adds the second codebook, following the first codebook.
However, the above-mentioned claim limitations are well-established in the art as evidenced by Wu. Specifically, Wu shows wherein the control section adds the second codebook, following the first codebook (Figures 5-6; noted placement of HARQ-ACK codebooks are based on different conditions where a first HARQ-ACK codebook may be placed before or after a second HARQ-ACK codebook.).
In view of the above, having the system of Hosseinian, then given the well-established teaching of Wu, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Hosseinian as taught by Wu, in order to provide motivation to introduce a scheduling manner of using a DCI to schedule multiple physical channels (Par. 0003 of Wu).
Regarding claim 3, modified Hosseinian shows the third slot overlapping with the first slot (R1-2104512: Figure 3; slot 2n+1 overlapping with slot n.). Modified Hosseinian does not specifically show wherein the control section re-orders the response signal of the second codebook and a response signal of a third codebook included in a third slot, the third codebook being for the response signal in a semi-persistently scheduled signal, and adds a codebook in which the response signals are re-ordered, following the codebook included in the first slot.
However, the above-mentioned claim limitations are well-established in the art as also evidenced by Wu. Specifically, Wu shows wherein the control section re-orders the response signal of the second codebook and a response signal of a third codebook included in a third slot (Wu: Figure 4; Par. 0289-0294; the HARQ-ACK codebook includes three subcodebooks, i.e., the first HARQ-ACK subcodebook, the second HARQ-ACK subcodebook, and a third HARQ-ACK subcodebook. The first feedback resource is used to feed back at least three sets of feedback information corresponding to the at least three sets of control information, and at least one set of the at least three sets of feedback information includes feedback information of the physical channel transmissions scheduled by the first control information.), and
adds a codebook in which the response signals are re-ordered, following the codebook included in the first slot (Wu: Figures 5-6; noted placement of HARQ-ACK codebooks are based on different conditions where a first HARQ-ACK codebook may be placed before or after a second HARQ-ACK codebook.).
In view of the above, having the system of Hosseinian, then given the well-established teaching of Wu, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of Hosseinian as taught by Wu, in order to provide motivation to introduce a scheduling manner of using a DCI to schedule multiple physical channels (Par. 0003 of Wu).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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US 20230291508 A1 - directed to wireless communications and, more particularly, enhanced one-shot hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ ACK) codebook transmission.
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