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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
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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 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.
Claims 1, 4, 8, 11, 15 and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Papasakellariou, US Pub. 2024/0244657 A1.
Regarding claims 1, 8 and 15, Papasakellariou discloses apparatuses and methods for latency reduction for transmission of data. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver (fig. 3, Transceiver 310) configured to enable wireless communication with a base station (fig. 1, BS 102, 103); and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver (fig. 3, the transceiver 310 coupled to a processor 340) and configured to: receive a configured grant (CG) configuration message configuring a plurality of CG physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions (TOs) within a CG period (abstract: receiving, by radio resource control signaling, first information for a configured grant (CG) configuration for transmission of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), wherein the first information includes a time period; determining first transmission occasions (TOs), from a first set of TOs within the time period, for transmission of respective first CG-PUSCHs); receive an information element indicating a time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) slot configuration (p. [0136]: an indication of CG-PUSCH TOs with CG-PUSCH transmission for a CG-PUSCH configuration in a transmission period can exclude invalid CG-PUSCH TOs as determined based on information provided to the UE by RRC signaling, such as for example for a TDD UL-DL configuration, as the UE can know in advance CG-PUSCH TOs that are invalid, for example because they include DL symbols as indicated by the TDD UL-DL configuration; [0160]-[0161]); determine whether a particular CG PUSCH TO of the plurality of CG PUSCH TOs overlaps with a DL slot indicated by the TDD UL-DL slot configuration (fig. 13, step 1310, [0170]: A UE determines that a number of CG-PUSCHs overlap in time, where the CG-PUSCHs are associated with respective CG-PUSCH configurations having respective indexes 1310); and in response to a determination that the particular CG PUSCH TO overlaps with the DL slot, skip utilizing the particular CG PUSCH TO (fig. 13, steps 1330-1350; p. [0161]: after resolving overlapping with symbols in a slot that are indicated as downlink by TDD-UL-DL-ConfigurationCommon or by TDD-UL-DL-ConfigurationDedicated and dropping corresponding CG-PUSCH transmission).
Regarding claims 4, 11 and 18, the information element disclosed by Papasakellariou is inherently received in a radio resource control (RRC) system information block (SIB).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-3, 5-7, 9-10,12-14, 16-17 and 19-20 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. See attached PTO-892.
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THAI HOANG D.
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2463
/THAI DINH HOANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2463