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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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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)(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.
(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, 2 & 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1)/(a)(2) as being anticipated by 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 (R1-2301605).
Regarding claim 1, method of wireless communication of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
configuring a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process identification (ID) determination mechanism (See page 1, “HARQ process ID determination”) for uplink transmission according to a plurality of parameters (see uplink, bottom page 1-2);
obtaining, based on the HARQ process ID determination mechanism and the parameters, a HARQ process ID for each of a plurality of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions (see PUSCH and HARQ Process ID determination, page 1-2, bottom to top); and
performing an uplink transmission with the PUSCH transmission occasions identified by the HARQ process IDs (see “uplink transmissions” and HARQ PROCESS ID, page 1-2),
wherein the parameters in the HARQ process ID determination mechanism include a parameter total-NrofOccasions-PerCGPeriod representing a total number of available PUSCH transmission occasions in a single configured grant (CG) period (see page 2, PUSCH transmission occasions in single CG period, same parameter by different name), and a parameter time-Gap-MultipleOccasions representing a time gap between two successive PUSCH transmission occasions (see page 2, time offset parameter configured to indicate gap between 1st and 2nd transmission occasions, page 2, here same definition by different name).
Regarding claim 2, method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, from a base station, configured scheduling information by radio resource
control (RRC) signaling, wherein the configured scheduling information includes the
parameters in the HARQ process ID determination mechanism and information
indicating the HARQ process ID determination mechanism (see HARQ process ID determination, page 2).
Regarding claim 13, apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus being a user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory (see UE page, 1, inherently requires memory); and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to: configure a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process identification (ID) determination (see HARQ process ID determination, page 2) mechanism for uplink transmission according to a plurality of parameters, wherein the parameters include a parameter total-NrofOccasions-PerCGPeriod representing a total number of available PUSCH (see PUSCH, page 1) transmission occasions in a single configured grant (CG) period (see page 2, PUSCH transmission occasions in single CG period, same parameter by different name), and a parameter time-Gap-MultipleOccasions representing a time gap between two successive PUSCH transmission occasions (see page 2, time offset parameter configured to indicate gap between 1st and 2nd transmission occasions, page 2, here same definition by different name); obtain, based on the HARQ process ID determination mechanism and the parameters, a HARQ process ID for each of a plurality of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions; and perform an uplink transmission with the PUSCH transmission occasions identified by the HARQ process IDs.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-12, 14-20 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Kwak US 2022/0322404 A1
TSAI et al. US 2022/0311558 A1
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