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 .
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, 9-10, 17-18 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Cheng et al. (US 2022/0304103), hereinafter referred to as Cheng.
Regarding claim 1, Cheng discloses: (1) unicast sidelink and DRX mode, see 0022 (equivalent to unicast sidelink process configured with DRX mode); (2) transmitting UE 702-fig.7 establishing PC5 RRC connection with receiving UE 704, thus, receiving UE 704 receives the PC5 RRC, see 0063 (equivalent to receiving first radio resource control (RRC) parameter configuration information), and sidelink DRX configuration for transmission by UE 702, see 0065 (equivalent to receiving first DRX parameter configuration information from a transmit end); at 714, if the UE2 704 determines, at 714, that it cannot use the DRX configuration indicated by the UE1 702, e.g., if the answer to either of question 1 or question 2 is no, the UE2 704 may transmit a failure message rejecting the indicated DRX configuration for UE1, e.g., an RRC reconfiguration failure message (which may be referred to as an “RRCReconfigurationFailureSidelink message”), see 0075. In response to the failure message, the UE1 702 may respond (resend) to the message 718 by transmitting the RRC reconfiguration message 720 indicating an adjusted timing for [T4′, T5′] and/or [T6′, T7′] that falls within or are the same as the timing parameters Rx-Config ([T4, T5]) and Tx-Config ([T6, T7]) received from the UE2, see 0077(equivalent to receiving, by the receive end, the first RRC parameter configuration information resent by the transmit end, in a case that first RRC parameter configuration fails); The UE1 and the UE2 may continue to respond with RRC messages either proposing new times and/or proposing adjusted times for the DRX configuration for UE1. Thus, the UEs may proceed through multiple iterations of the described messaging exchange before confirming a directional sidelink DRX configuration for the UE1 702, see 0077. If the sidelink DRX configuration is rejected, the PC5 connection may be established (resend) with a default or fallback common sidelink DRX (pre-)configured, see 0078 (equivalent to and/or receiving, by the receive end, the first DRX parameter configuration information resent by the transmit end, in a case that first DRX parameter configuration fails).
Regarding claim 2, Cheng discloses a sidelink DRX configuration may be configured in PC5 RRC signaling (simultaneously) in a directional manner between a pair of UEs. For example, the RRC configuration information 606 may include sidelink DRX configuration information for a DRX cycle of UE1 602-fig.6, e.g., a directional sidelink DRX configuration for the UE1 602 as a transmitting UE (which may be referred to as transmission-centric or Tx-centric) or as a receiving UE (e.g., which may be referred to as receiving-centric or Rx-centric, see par. 0062.
Regarding claim 9, please see the rejection of claim 1. The rejection of claim 1 is for a unicast sidelink configuration method from a receiving end has been described above, and it should be noted that a unicast sidelink configuration method from a transmit end can be performed in a similar manner.
Regarding claim 10, Cheng discloses a sidelink DRX configuration may be configured in PC5 RRC signaling (simultaneously) in a directional manner between a pair of UEs. For example, the RRC configuration information 606 may include sidelink DRX configuration information for a DRX cycle of UE1 602-fig.6, e.g., a directional sidelink DRX configuration for the UE1 602 as a transmitting UE (which may be referred to as transmission-centric or Tx-centric) or as a receiving UE (e.g., which may be referred to as receiving-centric or Rx-centric, see par. 0062.
Regarding claim 17, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 1. Therefore, it is rejected under Cheng for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 1. The terminal, e.g., the receiving device 350 includes memory storing instructions when executed by processor, cause the device to perform the claimed steps.
Regarding claim 18, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 2. Therefore, it is rejected under Cheng for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 2.
Regarding claim 20, this claim has similar limitations as those of claim 9. Therefore, it is rejected under Cheng for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claim 9. The terminal, e.g., the transmitting device 310 includes memory storing instructions when executed by processor, cause the device to perform the claimed steps.
Allowable subject matter
5. Claim 3-8, 11-16 and 19 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
6. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Pan et al. (US 2022/0191795) and Li et al. (US 2023/0309016)
are cited, and considered pertinent to the instant specification.
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/DUC C HO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2465