DETAILED ACTION
I. This office action is in response to the correspondence filed on January 18, 2024. Claims 1-20 are pending and being examined.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
II. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Information Disclosure Statement
III. The information disclosure statements filed 01/30/2025; 04/22/2025; and 08/12/2025 fail to comply with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97(a) because it lacks the appropriate size fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(v). It has been placed in the application file, but the information referred to therein has not been considered as to the merits.
Allowable Subject Matter
IV. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of subject matter allowable over the prior art:
The closest prior art found is Yamamoto et al. (US 2020/0008158 A1); ETSI TS 138 141-1 Base Station (BS) conformance testing (3GPP TS 38.141-1 version 16.5.0 Release 16); and 3GPP TSG-RAN WG4 Meeting #94-e.
Yamamoto teaches transmitting a radio frequency signal using a transmit chain of a mobile device, the radio frequency signal including a symbol sequence that includes a first symbol and a second symbol having a power transient separated by a transient period (see paragraphs [0185] & [0186] and Fig. 20, The terminal provides a transient period at the transmission side. The terminal provides a transient period between a symbol that is third from the end and a symbol that is second from the end. This reads on transmitting a radio frequency signal using a transmit chain of a mobile device, the radio frequency signal including a symbol sequence that includes a first symbol and a second symbol having a power transient separated by a transient period).
ETSI TS 138 141-1 Base Station (BS) conformance testing teaches transmitter transient period and testing to verify the transmitter transient periods are withing the limits of the minimum requirements (see page 66) and EVM measurements (see pages 245 – 246).
3GPP TSG-RAN WG4 Meeting #94-e teaches calculating EVM for symbols in which the transient occurs (see page 32, Issue 4-2-2, The EMV of the two symbols affected by the exclusion should be evaluated and check against a separate EVM requirement); and ensuring the transient period is symmetrically positioned (see page 29, Issue 4-1-5: how to ensure the transient period is symmetrically positioned).
Claims 1 and 11 may be allowable if rewritten or amended 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.
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.
V. Claims 1-20 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 regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites “establishing that the mobile device complies with a transient period specification based on obtaining a first error vector magnitude measurement and a second error vector magnitude measurement when the mobile device is transmitting the symbol sequence” in lines 7-10. It is unclear how “obtaining a first error vector magnitude measurement and a second error vector magnitude measurement when the mobile device is transmitting the symbol sequence” relates to “establishing that the mobile device complies with a transient period specification”. The specification describes to verify that the UE transient response meets a declared transient period capability, conformance testing can be performed by creating an EVM measurement exclusion period (ep) which duration matches the declared transient period capability (see the specification, page 23 at paragraph [0162]) and certain transient period SCS scenarios that indicate conformance test cases in which the EVM measurement exclusion period cannot match the declared tp capability because the FFTl_tp exceeds the cyclic prefix (CP) length (see the specification, pages 24-25 at paragraph [0175]). However, it is unclear whether the above description in the specification relates to the claimed limitation regarding “establishing that the mobile device complies with a transient period specification”. The limitations render the claim indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 2-10 are dependent on claim 1 and are rejected for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) for the same reasons given above regarding claim 1.
Claim 11 recites limitations similar to the ones recited above in claim 1. Therefore, claim 11 is rejected for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) for the same reasons given above regarding claim 1.
Claims 12-20 are dependent on claim 11 and are rejected for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) for the same reasons given above regarding claim 11.
Conclusion
VI. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Lahteensuo et al. WO 2021/028835 A1 discloses signal quality verification method including communication with transient periods between symbols and meeting EVM requirements (see abstract and paragraphs [0015] & [0016]).
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/BRANDON J MILLER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2647
March 6, 2026