CTFR 18/406,865 CTFR 90787 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. The amendment filed on 04/06/2026 has been acknowledged. Amendment Summary Claims 1-15 are amended. Response to Arguments/Amendment Applicant has amended the independent claims and associated dependent claims. The following OA examination reflect the new amended claims submitted herein. The arguments regarding previous claim submittal are moot since the amended claim has modified the scope of the previous claim. The amended claims are examined below. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112 The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b ): 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. Claim 3, 8, 13, and Claim 4, 9, 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b), 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. Claim 3 recites the following limitations : the receiver is configured to receive, from the base station, the RRC message including third information for configuring the communication apparatus to transmit the information indicating that the communication apparatus is in the state, and the transmitter is configured to transmit based on the third information , to the base station, the UEassistanceinformation message , in a case where the communication apparatus did not transmit the UEassistanceinformation message to the base station. (The two above statements are not clearly stated. I am not sure what condition that these if statement want to impose as they look contradictory to their parent limitations. Applicant is advised to rewrite the above statement for conveying clear conditional statement) (Claim 8 and 1 3 comprises similar features and is subjected to the same rejection) Claim 4, 9, 14 is dependent on Claim 3, 8, 13 and are subjected to the same rejection . Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 07-20-aia AIA 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. 07-21-aia AIA Claim (s) 1-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over (Chen (US 2020/0169905 A1) Regarding Claims 1, 6, 11 Chen discloses a communication apparatus (Fig.(6,7);Terminal) comprising: a receiver (Fig.7(71)) configured to receive, from a base station (Fig.8(80)), a radio configuration message (See [0003]; [0026]; [0077]; base station configured terminal for measurement and results reporting) including first information indicating a value used to determine whether or not a stationarity criterion is fulfilled (See [0031]; [0050]; [0052]; UE used a threshold value and timing interval to determine the moving state of a terminal)) and second information indicating a value of a timer value (See [0053-0054]; a timer to prohibit measurement for certain time and timer to allowed measurement at other time); a controller (Fig.7(75)) configured to determine whether or not the stationarity criterion is fulfilled (See (See [0031]; [0050]; [0052]; UE used a threshold value and timing interval to determine the moving state of a terminal)) ) based on the value indicated by the first information (See [0031]; [0050]; [0052]; UE used a threshold value and timing interval to determine the different moving state of a terminal)) ; and a transmitter (Fig.7(71)) configured to transmit, to the base station (Fig.8(80)) , a UEassistanceinformation message (See [0028-0029]; [0035-0036]; UE send its type and current moving state to a base station) including information indicating that the communication apparatus is in a state (See [0031]; [0051]; UE report , stationary, low moving state and high moving state of the UE) where the communication apparatus performs relaxed measurement (See [0036-0037]; [0053-0055]; at low moving state, a configuration of triggering the measurement reporting differs from that for a terminal in a high-speed moving state may be used to avoid frequent measurement and reporting performed by this type of terminal, and to save power consumption of the terminal or perform measurement restricted by a timer), in a case where the stationarity criterion is fulfilled (See [0030-0031]; [0053-0055]; the moving state of the UE translate into different measurement event) ; and Wherein the a controller (Fig.7(75)) configured to start a timer set to the timer value indicated by second information (See [0053-0055]; UE perform measurement according to scheduling timer and moving state) in a case where the UEassistanceinformation is transmitted (See [0031]; [0051]; moving state sent to base station). But Chen fails to explicitly about a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message However Chen “Background” recitation teaches about a base station transmitting a RRC configuration message to an UE equipment (See [0003]; a base station transmits information of a measurement configuration to a User Equipment (UE) via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling). Chen could have used the background information to configure the UE with RRC message including value of prohibit timer and stationarity criterion. Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill to combine above features including Chen and Chen background recitation as to obtain an efficient cellular telecommunication system. Regarding Claim 2, 7, 12 Chen teaches all the features with respect to Claim 1, 6, 11 and Chen further teaches wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit, to the base station, the UEassistanceinformation message (See [0028-0029]; [0035-0036]; UE send its type and current state of channel to base station) including information indicating that the communication apparatus is not in a state where the communication apparatus performs relaxed measurement (See [0028-0031]; when the UE is in high moving state, UE needs to perform measurement at higher rate and never at low rate) in a case where the stationarity criterion is not fulfilled (See [0030-0031]; [0050-0051]; the UE sends state information to the base station at every state according to base station configuration and may not be stationary) . Regarding Claims 3, 8, 13 Note: (Even though claims 3, 8 and 13 are rejected under 112 th (b), the claim will be examined as per examiner own interpretation) Chen teaches all the features with respect to Claim 1, 6, 11 and Chen further teaches wherein the receiver is configured to receive, from the base station, the RRC message (See [0003]; UE received RRC message configuration) including third information ( See [0030-0031]; [0051-0052]; the UE can receive information to enable or disable measurements report) for configuring the communication apparatus to transmit the information indicating that the communication apparatus is in the state (See [0050-0051]; UE is configured to report preset measurements according to moving state of the UE) , and the transmitter is configured to transmit, based on the third information , to the base station, the UEassistanceinformation message (See [0028-0031]; [0051-0052]; UE send its type and current state of channel to base station) , in a case where the communication apparatus did not transmit the UEassistanceinformation (See [0051-0052]; [0068]; if the current state information of the terminal does not satisfy the preset measurement reporting event, terminating the flow). Regarding Claims 4, 9, 14 (Even though claim 4, 9, 14 are rejected under 112 th (b), the claim will be examined as per examiner own interpretation) Chen teaches all the features with respect to Claim 3, 8, 13 and Chen further teaches wherein the controller is configured to stop the timer set to the timer value in a case (See [0053-0056]; allowing the terminal to perform the measurement relate to current state of UE during a timing duration) the third information is released (See [0068]; when the current state information of the terminal does not satisfy the preset measurement reporting event, terminating the flow.) Regarding Claim 5, 10, 15 Chen teaches all the features with respect to Claim 1, 6, 11 and Chen further teaches wherein: the transmitter is configured to transmit, to the base station, UEAssistancelnformation message (See [0053-0055]; UE perform measurement according to timer scheduling and moving state information) in a case where the UEAssistancelnformation message last transmitted to the base station (See [0030-0031]; UE sends measurements according to moving state information to the Base station) includes information indicating that the communication apparatus is not in a state where the communication apparatus performs relaxed measurement (See [0030-0031]; The UE is in a high speed state). Conclusion 07-40 AIA Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL . See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a). 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