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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 § 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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-6, 7-12, and 13-18 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 1, In line 2 of claim 1, the claim recites “first information is useable for scheduling a terminal apparatus”. In line 13 of claim 1, the claim recites “first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell”. It doesn’t appear that the first information described in line 13 is the same first information being obtained in line 2, but it is unclear based on the labeling of the claim language of both of them as “first information”.
Similarly, claim 1 recites “second information” in line 11 and “second information” again in line 14. As with the first information, from the context of the claim it is unclear whether these are the same or different information.
Additionally, the claim language recites both a terminal apparatus (lines 3 and 9) and a UE (line 7). Both are being claimed as being associated with uplink transmission to the first uplink carrier, it is unclear from the scope of the claim whether these are the same entity or separate entities and which entity is actually performing the first transmission (claim 7 doesn’t recite a UE at all, but only has the terminal apparatus).
Further, claim 1 recites “performing the first transmission on the first uplink carrier, wherein in response to the first transmission being performed”. The claim additionally doesn’t explicitly indicate any relationship between “M” and the second information with the first transmission performance. There seems to be just an indication that the first transmission is performed and that M and second information exist in the claimed method, but fail to provide clear indication how the elements operating together (if they do) in the claimed process.
Due to this, the dependent claims 2-6 of the claim 1 are rejected, too.
Claims 3-5 have some additional antecedent issues because it is referring to the two “second information” and “first information” of claim 1. Claims 13-18 have similar issues as the claims above.
Claim 7 has some indefinite issues that are similar to claim 1. It has some additional issues, the claim recites the N is the quantity of ports that are supported by the terminal and then recite that the terminal fails to support N-port transmission, so that is also unclear how both can be true. Due to this, the dependent claims 8-12 of the claim 7 are also rejected.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 1-2, 6, 13-14, and 18 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Peter Gaal et. al (USPub No.: US 20230232393 A1, hereinafter “Gaal”) in a view of Jeongsu Lee et. al. (USPub No.: US 20230164702 A1, hereinafter “Lee”)
Regarding claim 1, Gaal teaches that a communication method, comprising: obtaining first information, wherein the first information is useable for scheduling a terminal apparatus configured for performing first transmission on a first uplink carrier, the first transmission is an N-port transmission, and N is a positive integer; and performing the first transmission on the first uplink carrier, wherein in response to the first transmission being performed, where M is at least a first quantity of ports supported by a user equipment (UE) for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier, where M is determined based on second information of at least one uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus, the at least one uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus comprises the first uplink carrier, and M≥N, (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. The UE may identify scheduled component carriers within first and second frequency bands. The scheduling information may include all scheduling information for all of the intra-band component carriers in a given frequency band. The UE may derive an antenna port configuration assignment for the UE from the uplink scheduling information and perform this with each antenna port. Further, as shown in Fig. 6 and 7 and in Table 1, since the first transmission can use either 1-port transmission or 2-port transmission, N = 1 or 2. In addition, the first quantity of ports supported by a user equipment (UE) for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 1 or 2, too and M = 1 or 2. Therefore, according to the port configuration based on the information received, it can be configured with the condition M≥ N, for example, for the case 2 in the table 1 and in Fig. 6, for CC2-1 (the first component carrier in frequency band 2, indicated in Paragraph [0095]), the N-port transmission for the first transmission can be 1-port transmission and M can be 2, since the number of port on the CC2-1 is up to 2).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, a bandwidth, a frequency, a path loss, a slot length, a number, an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell, or fifth information useable for indicating whether a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier.
Lee teaches that that wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0100]-[0101], [0103], [0106]-[0107], [0112], [0128]-[0135], [0279], [0368]-[0371], and [0142] and in Table 1-3 and 5-11, teaches a BS sends to a UE various configuration information through RRC signaling that may includes the first information to the fifth information indicated in this claim. In Paragraph [0368]-[0371], Lee teaches that the priority information between the normal SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) and the positioning SRS or the priority information between other UL (Uplink) signals and SRSs are indicated or designated by the BS to UE through RRC signaling. Further, in Paragraph [0387], the BS may allocate a priority of a UL signal (e.g., one or more of a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS) that is allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling.) a bandwidth, (Lee, in Table 5, 10, and 11, teaches that by RRC signaling, the cell configuration information elements are sent to the UE by the BS. As shown in Table 5, CellGroupConfig included in RRC signaling contains uplink BWP (Bandwidth a Part) configuration indication as shown in Table 6 and further ServingCellConfigCommon included in CellGroupConfig contains the indication of the bandwidth a part (BWP) configuration in the common downlink configuration, as shown in Table 11.) a frequency, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0103] and [0128] and in Table 2, teaches by RRC signaling, the NR frequency band is configured as shown in the Table 2 and in Paragraph [0103]. Further, as described in Paragraph [0138], for carrier aggregation, the component carrier configurations or arrangements can be managed thru RRC signaling (or parameters).). a slot length, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0100]-[0101] and [0106]-[0107], teaches that multiple OFDM numerologies supported by the NR system, defined as shown in Table 1, are obtained from RRC signaling parameters such as SCS (Subcarrier Spacing: µ) and a CP (Cyclic Prefix). Further, with SCS and CP, the number of symbols per slot, the number of slots per frame and the number of slots per subframe can be defined as shown in Table 3.) a path loss, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0279], teaches that the normal SRS received by RRC signaling may be used as a UL RS (Reference Signal) that is configured for channel estimation. Thru the channel estimation, a path loss can be provided.) a number, (Lee, in Paragraph [0128]], teaches that by RRC signaling, for CA, for each cell the number of component carriers (CCs) can be configured. Namely, a cell may include one DL (Downlink) CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs.) an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0128] and Table 10, teaches that thru RRC signaling, in NR (New Radio), radio resources may be classified/managed by cells, where a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CC. A cell may be interpreted according to a context such as a serving cell. As shown in Table 10, each serving cell can be indicated by physCellID that is included in ServingCellConfigCommon. Here, IE ServingCellConfigCommon may be used to configure a cell-specific parameter of a serving cell of a UE as described in Paragraph [0142]) first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its incdication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, a bandwidth, a frequency, a path loss, a slot length, a number, an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Regarding claim 2, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 1, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein M is further determined based on a second quantity of ports through which the terminal apparatus performs second transmission, and the second transmission is transmission performed by the terminal apparatus on at least one uplink carrier other than the first uplink carrier (Gaal, in Fig. 6 and 7, in Table 1 and in Paragraphs [0071]-[0072], teaches that The uplink CA module 208 may map the indicated/derived antenna port configuration from the uplink scheduling information to one of two configuration cases for the RF chains at the UE 200 (e.g., case 1 and case 2 noted above). An example mapping table is provided in Table 1, where for different frequency band, different number of RF chain and different number of antenna ports are configured based on the uplink scheduling information. Further, Fig. 6 and 7 show the configuration of different number of antenna ports for different component carrier and different frequency bands. Based on this observation, the M can be determined by the uplink scheduling information for the second transmission on the second carriers.)
Regarding claim 6, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 1, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the first information is carried included in higher layer signaling (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. Thus, the first information is included in higher layer signaling (RRC signaling).)
Regarding claim 13, Gaal teaches that an apparatus, comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, and storing programming configured to store non-transitory instructions, for execution by the one or more processors being configured to execute the non-transitory instructions thereby causing to cause the apparatus to perform a method comprising: (Gaal, in Fig. 2 and in Paragraphs [0065]-[0067], teaches that Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an exemplary UE. The UE 200 (apparatus) may include a processor 202, a memory 204, an uplink CA module 208, a transceiver 210 including a modem subsystem 212 and a radio frequency (RF) unit 214, and one or more antennas 216. The memory 204 includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium and may store instructions 206. The instructions 206 may include instructions that, when executed by the processor 202, cause the processor 202 to perform the operations described herein with reference to the UEs 115.) obtaining first information, wherein the first information is useable for scheduling a terminal apparatus configured for performing first transmission on a first uplink carrier, the first transmission is an N-port transmission, and N is a positive integer; and performing the first transmission on the first uplink carrier, wherein in response to the first transmission being performed, where M is at least a first quantity of ports supported by a user equipment (UE) for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier, where M is determined based on second information of at least one uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus, the at least one uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus comprises the first uplink carrier, and M > N, (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. The UE may identify scheduled component carriers within first and second frequency bands. The scheduling information may include all scheduling information for all of the intra-band component carriers in a give frequency band. The UE may derive an antenna port configuration assignment for the UE from the uplink scheduling information and perform this with each antenna port. Further, as shown in Fig. 6 and 7 and in Table 1, since the first transmission can use either 1-port transmission or 2-port transmission, N = 1 or 2. In addition, the first quantity of ports supported by a user equipment (UE) for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 1 or 2, too and M = 1 or 2. Therefore, according to the port configuration based on the information received, it can be configured with the condition M≥ N, for example, for the case 2 in the table 1 and in Fig. 6, for CC2-1 (the first component carrier in frequency band 2, indicated in Paragraph [0095]), the N-port transmission for the first transmission can be 1-port transmission and M can be 2, since the number of port on the CC2-1 is up to 2).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, a bandwidth, a frequency, a path loss, a slot length, a number, an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell, or fifth information useable for indicating whether a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier.
Lee teaches that that wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0100]-[0101], [0103], [0106]-[0107], [0112], [0128]-[0135], [0279], [0368]-[0371], and [0142] and in Table 1-3 and 5-11, teaches a BS sends to a UE various configuration information through RRC signaling that may includes the first information to the fifth information indicated in this claim. In Paragraph [0368]-[0371], Lee teaches that the priority information between the normal SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) and the positioning SRS or the priority information between other UL (Uplink) signals and SRSs are indicated or designated by the BS to UE through RRC signaling. Further, in Paragraph [0387], the BS may allocate a priority of a UL signal (e.g., one or more of a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS) that is allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling.) a bandwidth, (Lee, in Table 5, 10, and 11, teaches that by RRC signaling, the cell configuration information elements are sent to the UE by the BS. As shown in Table 5, CellGroupConfig included in RRC signaling contains uplink BWP (Bandwidth a Part) configuration indication as shown in Table 6 and further ServingCellConfigCommon included in CellGroupConfig contains the indication of the bandwidth a part (BWP) configuration in the common downlink configuration, as shown in Table 11.) a frequency, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0103] and [0128] and in Table 2, teaches by RRC signaling, the NR frequency band is configured as shown in the Table 2 and in Paragraph [0103]. Further, as described in Paragraph [0138], for carrier aggregation, the component carrier configurations or arrangements can be managed thru RRC signaling (or parameters).). a slot length, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0100]-[0101] and [0106]-[0107], teaches that multiple OFDM numerologies supported by the NR system, defined as shown in Table 1, are obtained from RRC signaling parameters such as SCS (Subcarrier Spacing: µ) and a CP (Cyclic Prefix). Further, with SCS and CP, the number of symbols per slot, the number of slots per frame and the number of slots per subframe can be defined as shown in Table 3.) a path loss, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0279], teaches that the normal SRS received by RRC signaling may be used as a UL RS (Reference Signal) that is configured for channel estimation. Thru the channel estimation, a path loss can be provided.) a number, (Lee, in Paragraph [0128]], teaches that by RRC signaling, for CA, for each cell the number of component carriers (CCs) can be configured. Namely, a cell may include one DL (Downlink) CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs.) an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0128] and Table 10, teaches that thru RRC signaling, in NR (New Radio), radio resources may be classified/managed by cells, where a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CC. A cell may be interpreted according to a context such as a serving cell. As shown in Table 10, each serving cell can be indicated by physCellID that is included in ServingCellConfigCommon. Here, IE ServingCellConfigCommon may be used to configure a cell-specific parameter of a serving cell of a UE as described in Paragraph [0142]) first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its incdication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell, (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of wherein the second information comprises at least one of priority indication information, a bandwidth, a frequency, a path loss, a slot length, a number, an identifier of a cell corresponding to the uplink carrier, first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a special cell, second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a physical uplink control channel secondary cell, third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is a secondary cell of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Regarding claim 14, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 13, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein M is further determined based on a second quantity of ports through which the terminal apparatus performs second transmission, and the second transmission is transmission performed by the terminal apparatus on at least one uplink carrier other than the first uplink carrier (Gaal, in Fig. 6 and 7, in Table 1 and in Paragraphs [0071]-[0072], teaches that The uplink CA module 208 may map the indicated/derived antenna port configuration from the uplink scheduling information to one of two configuration cases for the RF chains at the UE 200 (e.g., case 1 and case 2 noted above). An example mapping table is provided in Table 1, where for different frequency band, different number of RF chain and different number of antenna ports are configured based on the uplink scheduling information. Further, Fig. 6 and 7 show the configuration of different number of antenna ports for different component carrier and different frequency bands. Based on this observation, the M can be determined by the uplink scheduling information for the second transmission on the second carriers.)
Regarding claim 18, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 13, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the first information is carried included in higher layer signaling (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. Thus, the first information is included in higher layer signaling (RRC signaling).)
Claims 3-5 and 15-17 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Peter Gaal et. al (USPub No.: US 20230232393 A1, hereinafter “Gaal”) in a view of Jeongsu Lee et. al. (USPub No.: US 20230164702 A1, hereinafter “Lee”) and further in a view of Esmael Hejazi Dinan (USPub No.: US 20180077664 A1, hereinafter “Dinan”)
Regarding claim 3, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 1, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is a maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier, M, can be 2, namely, M=2.).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the terminal apparatus does not fails to perform transmission on the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier simultaneously.
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Combination of Gaal and Lee does not explicitly teach that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the terminal apparatus does not fails to perform transmission on the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier simultaneously.
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, Cao, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]);
Regarding claim 4, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 2, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is further determined based on the second quantity of ports for the second transmission; M is a maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be greater than 1. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 2, namely, M can be 1 or 2. The number of ports can be reconfigured based on the uplink scheduling information that is received in RRC configuration information and/or DCI, as described in Paragraph [0034]).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the second transmission is transmission performed by the terminal apparatus on the second uplink carrier, a time domain resource for the second transmission overlaps a time domain resource for the first transmission.
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]).
Regarding claim 5, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 1, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is equal to N; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be greater than 1. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 2, namely, M can be equal to N as shown in Case 2 in Table 1. The number of ports can be reconfigured based on the uplink scheduling information that is received in RRC configuration information and/or DCI, as described in Paragraph [0034]).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the secondary cell, and a cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the special cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier fails to be higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier,
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Combination of Gaal and Lee does not explicitly teach that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier.
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]);
Regarding claim 15, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 13, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is a maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier, M, can be 2, namely, M=2.).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the terminal apparatus does not fails to perform transmission on the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier simultaneously.
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Combination of Gaal and Lee does not explicitly teach that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the terminal apparatus does not fails to perform transmission on the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier simultaneously.
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]).).
Regarding claim 16, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 14, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is further determined based on the second quantity of ports for the second transmission; M is a maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be greater than 1. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 2, namely, M can be 1 or 2. The number of ports can be reconfigured based on the uplink scheduling information that is received in RRC configuration information and/or DCI, as described in Paragraph [0034]).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the second transmission is transmission performed by the terminal apparatus on the second uplink carrier, a time domain resource for the second transmission overlaps a time domain resource for the first transmission.
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Combination of Gaal and Lee does not explicitly teach that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time fails to be configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier, the second transmission is transmission performed by the terminal apparatus on the second uplink carrier, a time domain resource for the second transmission overlaps a time domain resource for the first transmission.
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]).).
Regarding claim 17, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 13, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the second information comprises the number; and in response to a number of the first uplink carrier being 1 and a number of a second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being greater than 1, where M is equal to N; (Gaal, in Paragraphs [0128], teaches that NR may support a wider uplink/downlink bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of uplink/downlink carriers thru carrier aggregation (CA). When carrier aggregation is applied, each carrier may be referred to as a component carrier (CC). A bandwidth of each of the component carrier (CC) may be independently determined. In NR, radio resources may be classified/managed by cells with RRC signaling (configuration information), and a cell may include one DL CC and 0 to 2 UL CCs. A cell may include (i) only one DL CC, (ii) one DC CC and one UL CC, or (ii) one DL CC and two UL CCs (including one supplementary UL CC). Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be 0, 1, or 2. The number of carrier information can be obtained by RRC signaling and the second information is one of information included in RRC signaling. Thus, the number of uplink carrier can be greater than 1. In Fig 6 and 7 and in Table 1, the maximum quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be 2, namely, M can be equal to N as shown in Case 2 in Table 1. The number of ports can be reconfigured based on the uplink scheduling information that is received in RRC configuration information and/or DCI, as described in Paragraph [0034]).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the secondary cell, and a cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the special cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; and in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier fails to be higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; or the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier,
Lee further teaches that the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0132] and [0140] and Table 5 and 6, teaches that the cell corresponding the UL CC can be classified as a special cell (SpCell). In the case of DC (Dual Connectivity), the SpCell is a PCell (Primary Cell) of MCG (Master Cell Group) or a PSCell (Primary Secondary Cell) of SCG (Secondary Cell Group). Otherwise (non-DC case), the SpCell is a PCell. MSG and/or SCG are configured by information element (IE) CellGroupConfig obtained by RRC signaling, where a cell group may include one medium access control (MAC) entity, a set oflogical channels related to a radio link control (RLC) entity, a PCell (SpCell), and/or one or more SCells. The indication of SpCell is included in the SpCellConfig described in Table 5-7. Here, the first information can be one of information included in the RRC signaling) the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0131] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CCs can be classified as a Primary Secondary cell (PSCell) in SCG in which UE performs random access when RRC reconfiguration and synchronization are performed in DC. The indication can be found as SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The fourth information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and (Lee, in Paragraphs [0134], teaches that Control information (RRC signaling) may be configured to be transmitted and received only through a specific cell and UCI (Uplink Conrtol Information) may be transmitted only through a SpCell (e.g., PCell). When an SCell in which PUCCH transmission is allowed is configured, UCI may also be transmitted through this cell that is called by PUCCH-SCell. Its indication can be made by the SpCell configuration and the PUCCH configuration.) the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; (Lee, in Paragraphs [0130] and [0140] and Table 5, teaches that a cell including UL CC can be classified as a secondary cell (SCell) that is configured with carrier aggregation, other than SpCell. Therefore, this cell can be considered as the secondary cell other than PUCCH-SCell since PUCCH-SCell is configured on SpCell. The indication of this cell can be found in SCellIndex of SCellConfig described in Table 5. The third information is one of information included in RRC signaling.) the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier (Lee, in Paragraphs [0387], teaches that the BS may variably allocate a priority of a UL signal such as a PRACH, a PUCCH, a PUSCH, a normal SRS, and a positioning SRS and the priority may be allocated/configured/indicated through system information and/or RRC signaling. Thus, the priority indication can be obtained through system information and/or RRC signaling. Further in Paragraphs [0026]-[0032], Lee teaches that the UL transmissions may include a normal sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission and a positing SRS transmission and in the first predefined priority, a priority of the normal SRS transmission may be higher than a priority of the positing SRS transmission. When the normal SRS transmission may be mapped to a first carrier in a frequency domain and the positioning SRS transmission may be mapped to a second carrier different from the first carrier in the frequency domain, the priority for the first uplink carrier is higher than the priority for the second uplink carrier. Here, the second, third, and fourth information can be one of information included in RRC signaling and/or system information.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Lee to include the technique of the second information comprises the first information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the special cell and the fourth information useable for indicating whether the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell; the second information comprises the second information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell and the third information useable for indicating that the cell corresponding to the uplink carrier is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell; the second information comprises the priority indication information; and when in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier is higher than a priority indicated by priority indication information of a second uplink carrier; of Lee in the system of Gaal to provide a method related to a power priority rule according to introduction of a positioning SRS and a device for supporting the same, to effectively transmit and receive a signal in wireless communication. (Lee, see Paragraphs [0004] and [0054]-[0056]).).
Combination of Gaal and Lee does not explicitly teach that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, the second information comprises the fifth information useable for indicating whether the position of the uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier; and in response to the first uplink carrier being a carrier for which a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured, wherein uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching are the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier.
Dinan teaches that in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158], teaches that SCell activation/deactivation process was introduced in LTE-Advanced release-IO and beyond. If the MAC entity is configured with one or more SCells, the network may activate and deactivate the configured SCells. The SpCell (Special Cell) may always be activated. The network may activate and deactivate the SCell(s) by sending one or more of Activation/Deactivation MAC control elements. The MAC entity may maintain a sCellDeactivationTimer timer per configured SCell and may deactivate the associated SCell upon its expiry that is configured by RRC. Based on this observation, the Scell and the SpCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.) in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell (Dinan, in Paragraph [0158] and in Fig. 11 and 12, teaches that Fig 11 and 12 shows multiple PUCCH groups based on pTAG (Primary Timing Advance Group) and sTAG (Secondary Timing Advance Group). These figures show the SCell and PUCCH Scell can be configured at the same time, where each cell has its own uplink carries, respectively. Based on this observation, the SCell and the PUCCH SCell can be configured at the same time and each cell has its own uplink carriers.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal, Lee, and Dinan to include the technique of in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier being the special cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus being the secondary cell, in response to the cell corresponding to the first uplink carrier is the physical uplink control channel secondary cell, and the cell corresponding to the second uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus is the secondary cell other than the physical uplink control channel secondary cell of Dinan in the system of combination of Gaal and Lee to provide the transmission and reception techniques to enable operation of multiple PUCCH groups for multicarrier communication system at the same time. (Dinan, see Paragraph [0030]).).
Claims 7-12 are rejected under U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Peter Gaal et. al (USPub No.: US 20230232393 A1, hereinafter “Gaal”) in a view of Yiqing Cao et. al. (USPub No.: US 20230009220 A1, hereinafter “Cao”)
Regarding claim 7, Gaal teaches that a communication method, comprising: obtaining first information, wherein the first information is useable for scheduling a terminal apparatus configured for performing first transmission on a first uplink carrier, the first transmission is an N-port transmission, and N is a positive integer; and performing the first transmission on the first uplink carrier, wherein in response to the first transmission being performed, a first quantity of ports that are supported by a terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier is N, and, (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. The UE may identify scheduled component carriers within first and second frequency bands. The scheduling information may include all scheduling information for all of the intra-band component carriers in a given frequency band. The UE may derive an antenna port configuration assignment for the UE from the uplink scheduling information and perform this with each antenna port. Further, as shown in Fig. 6 and 7 and in Table 1, since the first transmission can use either 1-port transmission or 2-port transmission, N = 1 or 2 (N is a positive integer.). Thus, the first quantity of ports supported by a user equipment (UE) for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier can be N = 0, 1 or 2.)
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the terminal apparatus does not fails to support N-port transmission on the first uplink carrier before a start moment of a first duration, wherein the first duration is an uplink switching gap, the start moment of the first duration is between a first moment at which the terminal apparatus obtains the first information and a second moment at which the first transmission is started, and the start moment of the first duration is after a third moment, the third moment is an end moment of a last uplink transmission before the first transmission is performed, and an end moment of the first duration before the second moment at which the first transmission is started.
Cao further teaches that the terminal apparatus does not fails to support N-port transmission on the first uplink carrier before a start moment of a first duration, (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0106]-[0107], teaches that in Fig. 2-3, during slot 305, During slot 305, the base station may transmit the control signal (e.g., a DCI and/or RRC grant) to the UE (and the UE may receive the DCI and/or RRC grant) scheduling uplink resources for the uplink transmission on at least the first component carrier. The control signal may identify the resources the UE is to use for the uplink transmission, identify at least the first component carrier, identify the scheduled beginning time for the uplink transmission, and the like. Then, as shown in Fig. 2 and in Paragraph [0084], UE 210 is configured with a first transmit chain that supports communications on multiple radio frequency spectrum bands and a second transmit chain that supports communications on at least one radio frequency spectrum band, where N is 1 or 2.) wherein the first duration is an uplink switching gap, (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0107]-[0109], teaches that the gap between time t1 and time t2 is considered as an uplink switching gap) the start moment of the first duration is between a first moment at which the terminal apparatus obtains the first information and a second moment at which the first transmission is started, (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0107]-[0109], teaches that in Fig. 3, the start moment of the first duration is considered as the time t1 and the UE is received the reconfiguration message to obtain the first information at the time t1. The time t2 is considered as the second moment and the UE start to send the first transmission (the reconfigured transmission) at the time t2.) and the start moment of the first duration is after a third moment, the third moment is an end moment of a last uplink transmission before the first transmission is performed, and (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0107]-[0109], teaches that in Fig 3, the third moment is considered as the time t1, since in the figure, the ending time (the third moment) of the transmission U0_1 (last transmission before the first transmission) is the time t1 and at the same time, at the time t1, UE starts reconfiguration. Thus, in this application, both the start moment of the first duration and the third moment are considered as the same moment as the time t1.) an end moment of the first duration before the second moment at which the first transmission is started (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0107]-[0109], teaches that in Fig 3, the time t2 is considered as both the second moment and the end moment of the first duration, since at the time t2, the first duration (the switching gap) is ended and the reconfiguration is completed and at the same time, the first transmission (the reconfigured UL transmission) is started.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Cao to include the technique the terminal apparatus does not fails to support N-port transmission on the first uplink carrier before a start moment of a first duration, wherein the first duration is an uplink switching gap, the start moment of the first duration is between a first moment at which the terminal apparatus obtains the first information and a second moment at which the first transmission is started, and the start moment of the first duration is after a third moment, the third moment is an end moment of a last uplink transmission before the first transmission is performed, and an end moment of the first duration before the second moment at which the first transmission is started of Cao in the system of Gaal to provide methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support carrier aggregation uplink switch gap detection and report for UE to be able to support uplink multiple-input multiple-output or any other multi-carrier uplink transmission in wireless communications in a wireless network (Cao, see Paragraphs [0004] and[0049]).)
Regarding claim 8, combination of Gaal and Cao teaches the features defined in the claims 7, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Cao further teaches that wherein a quantity of uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching is greater than 2, and the method further comprises: determining a third uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus based on second information, (Cao, in Fig. 2 and in Paragraphs [0092] and [0089]-[0090], teaches that as described in Paragraph [0092], the BS (Base Station) determines that the UE is to perform uplink transmission using one or more component carriers in the first radio frequency spectrum band and according to DCI and/or RRC signaling (include second information), the UE schedules the resources for uplink transmission. Further, the UE can support multi-band transmit chains based on the UE capability as explained in Paragraph [0089]-[0090]. Thus, the quantity of the uplink carriers can be greater than 2, depending on the UE capability.) wherein a quantity of radio frequency chains that are allowed to be switched to the third uplink carrier fails to be zero; and skipping performing uplink sending on the first uplink carrier and the third uplink carrier in the first duration, (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0106]-[0110], teaches that as shown in Fig. 3, during the first duration (the uplink switching gap: between t1 and t2), the uplink transmission may skipped. During this period, the UE is reconfigured based on the control information and switch to the new uplink carrier (third carrier or the same carrier, depending to the reconfiguration). After finishing the reconfiguration, the UE start the uplink transmission at t2 of Fig. 3 on the new uplink carrier without failing.) wherein the first duration is the uplink switching gap (in Fig. 3, the duration between t1 and t2 is considered as the uplink switching gap (the first duration).
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Cao to include the technique wherein a quantity of uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching is greater than 2, and the method further comprises: determining a third uplink carrier of the terminal apparatus based on second information, wherein a quantity of radio frequency chains that are allowed to be switched to the third uplink carrier fails to be zero; and skipping performing uplink sending on the first uplink carrier and the third uplink carrier in the first duration, wherein the first duration is the uplink switching gap of Cao in the system of Gaal to provide methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support carrier aggregation uplink switch gap detection and report for UE to be able to support uplink multiple-input multiple-output or any other multi-carrier uplink transmission in wireless communications in a wireless network (Cao, see Paragraphs [0004] and[0049]).)
Regarding claim 9, combination of Gaal and Cao teaches the features defined in the claims 8, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Cao further teaches that wherein the uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching further comprise a fourth uplink carrier; and the method further comprises: skipping, by the terminal apparatus, performing uplink sending on the fourth uplink carrier in the first duration, (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraphs [0106]-[0110], teaches that as shown in Fig. 3, during the first duration (the uplink switching gap: between t1 and t2), the uplink transmission may skipped. The fourth uplink carrier is considered as the predefined uplink carrier for the first duration before reconfiguration. During this period, the UE is reconfigured based on the control information and switch to the new uplink carrier. After finishing the reconfiguration, the UE start to send the uplink transmission at t2 of Fig. 3 on the new uplink carrier without failing.) in response to satisfying K+L<P is satisfied, wherein P is a minimum quantity of radio frequency chains required used by the terminal apparatus for performing first transmission, K>M, L is the quantity of radio frequency chains that are allowed to be switched to the third uplink carrier, K is a quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier at a second fourth moment, and the second fourth moment comprises any moment between the third moment and the start moment of the first duration (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraph [0106]-[0110], teaches that in Fig. 3, third uplink carrier can be considered as the uplink carrier on which the uplink transmission is sent after reconfiguration (the first transmission) and the second fourth moment can be considered as any moment during the switching gap between t1 and t2. Then, in Fig. 3, P can be 3 since, after reconfiguration, two RF chains are needed at least. L = 1, since the switched RF chain after the reconfiguration is 1. K = 1, since during the switching gap, there is no uplink transmission supported by UE but it may be predefined before reconfiguration. Based on this analysis, the first condition K+L < P is satisfied. Note that since there is no condition or explanation for M, the condition K>M is not considered. Otherwise, M is considered as zero.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Cao to include the technique wherein the uplink carriers that are of the terminal apparatus and that support uplink radio frequency chain switching further comprise a fourth uplink carrier; and in response to satisfying K+L<P is satisfied, the method further comprises: skipping, by the terminal apparatus, performing uplink sending on the fourth uplink carrier in the first duration, wherein P is a minimum quantity of radio frequency chains required used by the terminal apparatus for performing first transmission, K>M, L is the quantity of radio frequency chains that are allowed to be switched to the third uplink carrier, K is a quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier at a second fourth moment, and the second fourth moment comprises any moment between the third moment and the start moment of the first duration of Cao in the system of Gaal to provide methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support carrier aggregation uplink switch gap detection and report for UE to be able to support uplink multiple-input multiple-output or any other multi-carrier uplink transmission in wireless communications in a wireless network (Cao, see Paragraphs [0004] and[0049]).)
Regarding claim 10, combination of Gaal and Cao teaches the features defined in the claims 9, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Cao further teaches that wherein in response to satisfying a first condition is satisfied, and the first transmission is performed, the quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier is M; and (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraph [0106]-[0110], teaches that in Fig. 3, the first transmission (considered as the uplink transmission after reconfiguration) is performed from t2 and M is 1 for the first uplink carrier.) the first condition comprises: M1+N>Z, wherein M1 is a total quantity of radio frequency chains of uplink carriers of the terminal apparatus in a first uplink carrier set other than the first uplink carrier at the second fourth moment, Z is a total quantity of radio frequency chains of the terminal apparatus, and the first uplink carrier set is a set of carriers supporting the uplink radio frequency chain switching (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraph [0106]-[0110], teaches that in Fig. 3, M1 can be considered as the number of RF (Radio Frequency) chain for the uplink carrier after reconfiguration and M1 = 1. N is the number of ports for the uplink carrier for the first transmission and N = 1 or 2, set to 2. Z is the total number of RF chains and Z = 2. Based on this observation, the first condition, M1+Z>N, is satisfied when the first uplink carrier set is considered as the uplink carrier set after reconfiguration in Fig. 3.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Cao to include the technique wherein in response to satisfying a first condition is satisfied, and the first transmission is performed, the quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier is M; and the first condition comprises: M1+N>Z, wherein M1 is a total quantity of radio frequency chains of uplink carriers of the terminal apparatus in a first uplink carrier set other than the first uplink carrier at the second fourth moment, Z is a total quantity of radio frequency chains of the terminal apparatus, and the first uplink carrier set is a set of carriers supporting the uplink radio frequency chain switching of Cao in the system of Gaal to provide methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support carrier aggregation uplink switch gap detection and report for UE to be able to support uplink multiple-input multiple-output or any other multi-carrier uplink transmission in wireless communications in a wireless network (Cao, see Paragraphs [0004] and[0049]).)
Regarding claim 11, combination of Gaal and Cao teaches the features defined in the claims 9, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Cao further teaches that wherein in response to satisfying a first condition is satisfied, and the first transmission is performed, the quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier is M; and (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraph [0106]-[0110], teaches that in Fig. 3, the first transmission (considered as the uplink transmission after reconfiguration) is performed from t2 and M is 1 for the first uplink carrier.) the first condition comprises: M2<N, wherein M2 is a quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier at the second fourth moment, and M2 is a positive integer (Cao, in Fig. 3 and in Paragraph [0106]-[0110], teaches that in Fig. 3, M2 can be considered as 1 and N can be considered as 2. Thus, the first condition, M2<N, can be satisfied with Fig. 3.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to combine Gaal and Cao to include the technique wherein in response to satisfying a first condition is satisfied, and the first transmission is performed, the quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier is M; and the first condition comprises: M2<N, wherein M2 is a quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier at the second fourth moment, and M2 is a positive integer of Cao in the system of Gaal to provide methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support carrier aggregation uplink switch gap detection and report for UE to be able to support uplink multiple-input multiple-output or any other multi-carrier uplink transmission in wireless communications in a wireless network (Cao, see Paragraphs [0004] and[0049]).)
Regarding claim 12, combination of Gaal and Cao teaches the features defined in the claims 7, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that wherein the first information is carried included in higher layer signaling (Gaal, in Paragraph [0034], Fig. 6-7, and in Table 1, teaches that a UE may receive uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information. This information may be received in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information can be included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. Thus, the first information is included in higher layer signaling (RRC signaling).)
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Meng Cheng et. al. (USPub No.: US 20230292316 A1) that explains the control signaling for carrier aggregation or dual connectivity.
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