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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, 10-11, 19-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Huang et al. (US 11057870 B2).
Considering claims 1, 20, Huang teaches a resource sensing method/ a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program (col.15, lines 57-60; sensing and resource (re)-selection), comprising:
receiving resource-pool related configuration from a network device (210) by a terminal (UE, Fig.2, col.4, lines 13-20, col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources… sub-channels included in the corresponding PSSCH resource pool);
determining, by the terminal according to the resource-pool related configuration (col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…PSSCH resource pool), one or more target sensing modes of resource reservation for one or more target Transport Blocks (TBs) (col.5, line 66 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…resource reservation interval), and one or two resource selection windows corresponding to the one or more target sensing modes (col.14, lines 32-47; col.17, lines 63-67; Resource selection window) .
Considering claim 10, Huang teaches a terminal (Fig.2-3), comprising:
a memory, a transceiver, a processor, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer program, the transceiver is configured to send and receive data under control of the processor (Fig.2-3), and
the processor is configured to read the computer program in the memory and execute following:
receiving resource-pool related configuration from a network device (210) by a terminal (UE, Fig.2, col.4, lines 13-20, col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources… sub-channels included in the corresponding PSSCH resource pool);
determining, by the terminal according to the resource-pool related configuration (col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…PSSCH resource pool), one or more target sensing modes of resource reservation for one or more target Transport Blocks (TBs) (col.5, line 66 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…resource reservation interval), and one or two resource selection windows corresponding to the one or more target sensing modes (col.14, lines 32-47; col.17, lines 63-67; Resource selection window) .
Considering claim 19, Huang teaches a terminal (Fig.2-3), comprising:
a receiving circuit (Fig.2), configured to receive a resource-pool related configuration from a network device by the terminal (UE, Fig.2, col.4, lines 13-20, col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources… sub-channels included in the corresponding PSSCH resource pool); and
a first determination circuit (Fig.2), configured to determine, by the terminal according to the resource-pool related configuration (col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…PSSCH resource pool), one or more target sensing modes of resource reservation for one or more target Transport Blocks (TBs) (col.5, line 66 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…resource reservation interval), and one or two resource selection windows corresponding to the one or more target sensing modes (col.14, lines 32-47; col.17, lines 63-67; Resource selection window) .
Considering claims 2, 11, Huang teaches wherein the one or more target TBs comprise a TB of a periodic service and/or a TB of a non-periodic service (col.7, lines 5-65; partial sensing), and the one or more target sensing modes comprise Period-based Partial Sensing (PBPS) (col.7, lines 5-65) and Contiguous Partial Sensing (CPS); and the method further comprises: determining, by the terminal, a candidate resource set in the one or two resource selection windows (col.6, line 63 to col.7, line 65: UE shall determine the set of resources…PSSCH resource pool; col.14, lines 32-47; col.17, lines 63-67; Resource selection window).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-9 and 12-18 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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/KHAI M NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2641
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