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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 .
Claims 1-30 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
The factual inquiries 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.
Claims 1, 3 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Uesaka et al, application no. 2025/0266971, hereinafter known as Uesaka in view of Ren et al, Wipo publication no. 2020/186440, hereinafter known as Ren.
As to claim 1, Uesaka discloses an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory; and one or more processors, coupled to the memory (Uesaka, [0122], figure 6, wireless device (UE), part 22 with memory and processor), configured to: receive, from a network node associated with a full-duplex (FD) network, one or more tracking reference signals (TRSs) in a slot (Uesaka, [0048. [0055], [0061], [0111] network sending to UE tracking signals associated with FD and HD, for plural processing including for Automatic Gain Control). Uesaka does not disclose however Ren discloses wherein the slot is a half-duplex (HD) slot or an FD slot based at least in part on a slot type associated with the slot (Ren, [0079]-[0080], [0097], slots with half duplex or full duplex; non-full duplex mode, the full duplex or non-full duplex resource AGC-reference source analogous to tracking reference signal) and calculate an automatic gain control (AGC) for the slot based at least in part on the one or more TRSs received in the slot and information regarding the slot type associated with the slot, including half duplex or full duplex (Ren, [0098]-[0099], determining AGC based on AGC-reference signal and full duplex or non-full duplex indication).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the teachings of Uesaka to include the limitations of wherein the slot is a half-duplex (HD) slot or an FD slot based at least in part on a slot type associated with the slot (Ren, [0079]-[0080], [0097], slots with half duplex or full duplex; non-full duplex mode, the full duplex or non-full duplex resource AGC-reference source analogous to tracking reference signal) and calculate an automatic gain control (AGC) for the slot based at least in part on the one or more TRSs received in the slot and information regarding the slot type associated with the slot, including half duplex or full duplex as taught by Ren. Use of full duplex or non-duplex provides a more accurate gain information for adjusting communications accordingly.
As to claim 3, Uesaka discloses wherein a slot dependent AGC is enabled based at least in part on the one or more TRSs received in the slot (Uesaka, [0054]-[0055],, [0106], AGC according to where TRS is received).
As to claim 20, the claim is rejected as applied to claim 1 above by Uesaka in view of Ren.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 7-13, 15-19, 24-26 and 28-30 are allowed.
Claims 2, 4-6 and 21-23 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.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claims 1, 3 and 20 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
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/GAUTAM SHARMA/ Examiner, Art Unit 2467
/HASSAN A PHILLIPS/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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