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
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 8, and 15 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Qian WO 2021155677.
Regarding claims 1, 8, 15, Qian discloses a method for communication control, comprising:
determining (S101, S202, S302) a first number of radio frequency, RF, channels requested by a first communication card and a second number of RF channels requested by a second communication card (see page 10, lines 32-33);
in a first preset situation, determining (S102, S203) a third number of RF channels and a fourth number of RF channels based on the first number of RF channels and the second number of RF channels, wherein a sum of the third number of RF channels and the fourth number of RF channels is less than or equal to a maximum number of RF channels supported by a terminal (page 11, lines 1-15), the first preset situation comprises: a sum of the first number of RF channels and the second number of RF channels being greater than the maximum number of RF channels supported by the terminal, and the first communication card or the second communication card being not in a first service state (D1 discloses that one communication card is in a call state, see page 11, lines 28-35); and
reporting (S103, S204, S305) a first capability and a second capability to a first network device and a second network device, respectively, wherein the first capability indicates that a number of RF channels supported by the first communication card is the third number of RF channels, and the second capability indicates that a number of RF channels supported by the second communication card is the fourth number of RF channels (D1 discloses dual card dual communication, corresponding to communication with two network devices, in page 12, lines 1-13).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7, 9-14, and 16-20 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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