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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 14-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. In the specification, although statutory (non-transitory) embodiments of a computer readable medium are disclosed, non-statutory (transitory) embodiments are not explicitly excluded. The broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim drawn to a computer readable medium (also called machine readable medium and other such variations) typically covers forms of non-transitory tangible media and transitory propagating signals per se in view of the ordinary and customary meaning of computer readable media, particularly when the specification is silent. Therefore, the claims are rejected as being drawn to non-statutory subject matter.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-13 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Claims 1 and 7 are drawn to a polar code construction method and corresponding communication apparatus, comprising: obtaining, by the communication apparatus, a reliability weight sequence; determining, by the communication apparatus, a first threshold, wherein the first threshold indicates a weight of lowest reliability of a subchannel corresponding to an information bit; determining, by the communication apparatus, the subchannel corresponding to the information bit based on the first threshold, wherein the subchannel corresponding to the information bit is a non-pre-frozen subchannel corresponding to a content value greater than or equal to the first threshold in the reliability weight sequence; and performing, by the communication apparatus, polar coding on the information bit based on the subchannel corresponding to the information bit.
Closest prior art of record is as follows:
Li et al. (US 20220286144 A1) discloses performing polar code encoding and using reliability weights compared with a threshold.
Palgy et al. (US 20180323803 A1) discloses polar code generation and transmitting data on channels having the highest reliability based on a threshold.
However, prior art of record fails to disclose the first threshold indicates a weight of lowest reliability of a subchannel corresponding to an information bit; determining, by the communication apparatus, the subchannel corresponding to the information bit based on the first threshold, wherein the subchannel corresponding to the information bit is a non-pre-frozen subchannel corresponding to a content value greater than or equal to the first threshold in the reliability weight sequence; and performing polar coding, in combination with each and every other limitation of the claims, rendering them and their dependents allowable.
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/VINEETA S PANWALKAR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2635
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