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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1, 13, and 15 have been considered but are moot in view of a new grounds of rejection.
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.
Claims 1, 13, and 15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Wang (US 20250015861) and Shen (US 20220342713).
Regarding Claim 1, Wang teaches a network node which communicates with a user equipment (UE) over a radio interface (Par.350), the network node comprising: transmission circuitry configured to transmit a message which requests the UE to report UE capability (Par.350, “capability inquiry”); and reception circuitry configured to receive run-time Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) capability of a channel state information (CSI) functionality from the UE (Par.350-352, “AI/ML capability for CSI measurement”, note: “run-time” is interpreted as “at time of the request”), the run-time AI/ML capability being based on a UE condition (i.e. UE is powered on) and a network configuration (Par.350-352, communication occurs. Examiner notes: when communication occurs between UE and network device the network’s configuration (e.g. protocols, resource allocations, parameter settings, tx power, reporting period, etc) must be evaluated/considered by the UE when communication occurs and naturally shapes UE behavior and Par.62: “a terminal device may be designed to transmit information to a network on a predetermined schedule, when triggered by an internal or external event, or in response to requests from the wireless communication network”, this further reads on evaluating network configuration), however Wang does not explicitly teach wherein the run-time AI/ML capability of the CSI functionality varies dynamically based on an evaluation of the UE condition and the network configuration.
To address the shortcomings of Wang, Shen in the same field of endeavor, teaches that it very well known for the run-time AI/ML capability of an AI/ML service (Par.52, AI/ML service is a service provided by the UE utilizing AI/ML) {the CSI functionality} to vary dynamically based on an evaluation of the UE condition and the network configuration (Par.52, Par.79 and Par.97, provides capability information such as available computing power, overhead, battery capacity, etc. for AI/ML service and Par.80, “when the network device requests the terminal to report the AI/ML capability information”, this further reads on network configuration). AI/ML capability of an AI/ML service taught in Wang can obviously be applied to the AI/LM capability of CSI functionality as taught by Shen.
Therefore, it would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the invention to modify the invention of Wang with the Shen such that the transmission and reception of run-time Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) capability of a channel state information (CSI) functionality from the UE can be dynamically varied based on the device condition and the network configuration. This would ensure an enhanced system is provided where the network configuration (i.e. protocols, tx power, reporting period, etc.) and the devices condition (i.e. powered on, available computing power, overhead, battery capacity, etc) are considered such that quality-of-service standards can be met without the phone dying or getting disconnected due to low battery, overloaded processing power, or lack of resources due to maxed out overhead.
Regarding Claim 13, the rejection of Claim 1 fully addresses all limitations of the User equipment as recited in Claim 13.
Regarding Claim 15, the rejection of Claim 1 fully addresses all the limitations of the method in a User Equipment as recited in Claim 15.
Conclusion
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/WESLEY L KIM/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2648