DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 14 March 2024 is being considered by the examiner.
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Figure 3A of the application illustrates the claimed invention.
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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.
Claim(s) 1, 12 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being Levitsky et al. (US 2023/0006762 A1).
Regarding claims 1, 12 and 20, Levitsky et al. (US 2023/0006762 A1) discloses a method for communication by a base station, in a wireless network, the method comprising:
establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE) in the wireless network ([0003]: “The UE may receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the base station indicating or transmission mode options and a set of DMRS configurations corresponding to each one of the transmission modes.”);
receiving a least one report including information indicating channel condition of at least one radio channel, from the UE ([0089]: “For example, a UE 115 may receive one or more of the signals transmitted by the base station 105 in different directions and may report to the base station 105 an indication of the signal that the UE 115 received with a highest signal quality or an otherwise acceptable signal quality.”); and
configuring additional demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on the information indicating the channel condition of the at least one radio channel ([0048]: “the additional DMRS position parameter (dmrs-AdditionalPosition) for one or more DMRS configurations used on the UE side per transmission mode, per TRP”), using a media access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) ([0011]: “The base station may transmit the information in control signaling dynamically, such as via a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), a downlink control information (DCI) message, or the like. The UE may identify a DMRS configuration and a transmission mode based on the additional control signaling”).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-11, 13-19 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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BRENDA H. PHAM
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2412
/BRENDA H PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2412
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