DETAILED ACTION
This office action is a response to 12/28/2023.
Claims 1-12 are pending.
Claims 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 are rejected.
Claims 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 are objected to.
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 .
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 in the instant application.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement filed 12/28/2023 fails to comply with 37 CFR 1.98(a)(2), which requires a legible copy of each cited foreign patent document; each non-patent literature publication or that portion which caused it to be listed; and all other information or that portion which caused it to be listed. It has been placed in the application file, but the information referred to therein has not been considered.
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 4/25/2025 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
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 3, 7, and 11 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.
Claims 3, 7, and 11 recite the limitation “the first value”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. For the purposes of examination, the examiner will interpret the limitation “the first value” as the limitation “the second value” of the respective claim languages. The calculated second value is compared with “a first preset threshold,” “a second preset threshold,” and “a third preset threshold.”
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)(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, 5, and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Jonsson et al. US 20180115491 A1 (publication date 04/26/2018), hereinafter Jonsson.
Regarding Claim 1, Jonsson discloses a method for adjusting serial number length, applied to a base station (Jonsson see at least [0040] a method which detects RLC window stall or the risk of an RLC window stall by means of monitoring the RLC window fill level; [0064-0065] disclosing the transmitting side of an RLC: entity may use a method), the method comprising:
acquiring parameters of a transmission window and parameters of a reception window of a user equipment in a confirmation mode of a radio link control (RLC) protocol (Jonsson [0052-0063] disclosing variables and constants, e.g. used in 3GPP TS 36.322; [0065] continuously monitoring the maximum send state variable VT(MS) and the send state variable VT(S) related to RLC Acknowledged Mode, AM, data transfer); and
adjusting serial number length of a downlink according to the parameters of the transmission window and adjusting serial number length of an uplink according to the parameters of the reception window (Jonsson see [0065] continuously monitoring the maximum send state variable VT(MS) and the send state variable VT(S) related to RLC Acknowledged Mode, AM, data transfer, in particular detecting when to start or stop using a larger SN range. In dependence of these variables the SN range is then maintained, increased or decreased; see also [0068-0073]).
Claim 5 is rejected on the same grounds set forth in the rejection of claim 1. Claim 5 recites similar features as in claim 1 for an apparatus of a base station (Jonsson Fig. 5).
Claim 9 is rejected on the same grounds set forth in the rejection of claim 1. Claim 9 recites similar features as in claim 1 for a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium (Jonsson Fig. 5).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 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.
Claims 3, 7, and 11 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Pani et al. US 8498284 B2
Bergstrom et al. US 7729719 B2
Gupta et al. US 20150304061 A1
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/Y.K./Examiner, Art Unit 2465
/GARY MUI/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2465