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 § 103
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 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 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.
Claim(s) 1-3, 17, 21 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Byun US 20180338277 in view of Park US 20190215726
A method of a first unit of a base station, the method comprising:
receiving, from a second unit of the base station, a message including information related to System Information (SI) (Byun: fig. 12-16 [0185] s1601 - a CU may provide a DU with grouped system information to be broadcast, which is provided by the CU, using an F1 setup procedure); and
transmitting, to the second unit in response to the message, a list indicating at least one User Equipment (UE) that needs to receive the SI via dedicated signaling (Byun: fig. 12-16 [0185-0191] step 1604 - the CU receives, from the DU, a request for grouped system information corresponding to on-demand system information from a UE)
Park further teaches wireless device identifier/gNB-CU UE FIAP ID (Park: [0214, 0219, 0228-0229] - (e.g., gNB-CU UE F1AP ID)). Thus, it would have been obvious to one ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Byun’s invention in order to include a wireless device identifier of the wireless device (e.g., gNB-CU UE F1AP ID) into the request or message, as taught by the Park.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: receiving, from the second unit, an updated SI included in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message (Byun: fig. 11-16 - when the CU determines to update the information related to the SIB, the CU may transmit the updated information related to the SIB to the DU); and transmitting the updated SI included in the RRC to a UE which is one of the at least one UE in the list, wherein the RRC message is included in a transfer message (Byun: fig. 12-16 - the DU of the BS may provide the requested system information to the UE on the basis of the received message. The system information may be provided to the UE through broadcast signaling or dedicated signaling).
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the list includes a gNB-CU UE FIAP ID (Park: [0214, 0219, 0228-0229] - (e.g., gNB-CU UE F1AP ID)). Thus, it would have been obvious to one ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Byun’s invention in order to include a wireless device identifier of the wireless device (e.g., gNB-CU UE F1AP ID) into the request or message, as taught by the Park.
17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message includes the SI to be broadcast (Byun: [0185] fig. 11-16).
21. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one UE, indicated by the list, is unable to receive the SI from broadcast (Byun: [0137, 0142-0143] fig. 11-16).
Regarding claims 5-7, 9-11, 13-15, 18-20, 22-24 the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1-3, 17, 21 where the difference used is a “base station” with a processor and a memory (Byun: referring to FIG. 12 the station includes a processor, a memory [0185]) and the wordings of the claims were interchanged within the claim itself or some of the claims were presented as a combination of two or more previously presented limitations. This change does not affect the limitation of the above treated claims. Adding these phrases to the claims arid interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore, these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above.
Response to Amendment
Applicant's arguments with respect to claim(s) 1-3, 5-7, 9-11, 13-15, 17-24 have been considered but are moot in view of the new ground(s) of rejection.
Remarks:
The examiner stresses that the claims are too broad and require detail or specialization of the steps as recited in the claims. Alone and as claimed, the limitations are too open.
Examiner has cited particular portions of the references as applied to each claim limitation for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant in preparing responses, to fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
In addition, an interview could expedite the prosecution.
Conclusion
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/SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415
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