DETAILED ACTION
The office action is in response to the amendments received on May 13, 2026 after a non-final office action.
Claims 1-6 and 13-24 are pending in this application, based on the amended claims on May 13, 2026.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDSs) submitted on Feb. 1, 2025, Nov. 25, 2024, and Oct.8, 2024 have been considered by the examiner.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s Amendments and Arguments filed 5/13/2026 have been considered for examination. Claims 1-6 and 13-24 are pending in the instant application.
With regard to 112 (b) rejections, Applicant’s arguments filed 5/13/2026 (see page 13 of Remarks) in view of the amendments have been fully considered and are persuasive. Thus, 112 (b) rejections have been withdrawn.
With regard to the 103 rejections, Applicant’s arguments filed 5/13/2026 (see pages 13-17 of Remarks) in view of the amendments have been fully considered but are not persuasive. The rejections are maintained, but, due to the amendments and new claims, the rejections has been updated in this instant office action.
Regarding claim 1 and 13, Applicant argued:
Regarding the part of the amended clam 1, recited as "a first quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier upon performing the first transmission is determined as M, where M is determined based on second information, ... , the second information comprises priority indication information," Applicant argued that Lee fails to disclose this part.
In the Office Action, Gaal does not disclose or suggest "the second information comprises information useable for indicating whether a position of uplink radio frequency switching time is configured on the uplink carrier.”
The Office relied on Lee in an attempt to overcome the deficiencies of Gaal, asserting that Lee teaches "priority indication information" and that the motivation to combine is to provide "a power priority rule" according to the introduction of a positioning SRS. Lee's teachings regarding priority are strictly limited to resolving signal collisions (e.g., between normal SRS and positioning SRS) via a "power priority rule" or signal dropping. Lee is entirely silent on using "power priority rule" to determine a quantity of ports (M) for uplink transmission on a specific carrier.
The Office's stated motivation to combine Gaal and Lee -to provide a "power priority rule" -would merely result in a system that drops conflicting signals or redistributes transmission power based on priority. It would not result in a system where the quantity of ports (M) is determined based on priority indication information to resolve hardware state ambiguity between the base station and the terminal.
As a result, Lee and Gaal, alone or in combination, do not disclose the part mentioned.
In response to Applicant’s argument, Examiner respectfully disagrees:
Although Applicant argued regarding the part of the amended claim 1 mentioned in the above, combination of Gaal and Lee fails to disclose this part, Examiner respectfully disagrees.
Regarding the part of the amended claim 1, recited as “a first quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier upon performing the first transmission is determined as M, where M is determined based on second information, ... , comprises the first uplink carrier, and M≥N,” Gaal, in Fig. 6-7, Table 1, and in Paragraphs [0034], and [0094]-[0095] teaches that a UE receives uplink scheduling information from a BS, including carrier aggregation information in radio resource control (RRC) configuration information (RRC signaling) and/or downlink control information (DCI). Here, the first information and the second information are included in DCI and/or the RRC configuration information. Based on the receives scheduling information, the UE identifies scheduled component carriers within first and second frequency bands and all scheduling information for all of the intra-band component carriers in a given frequency band. Further, the UE derives an antenna port configuration assignment for the UE from the uplink scheduling information and perform this with each antenna port. 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 Paragraphs [0094]-[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.
Further, Gaal does not explicitly teaches the uplink scheduling information received through RRC signaling and/or DCI includes the priority indication information. To compensated for this, 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 includes the first information to the second information indicated in this claim. In Paragraph [0368]-[0371] and [0385], 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. It can be generated based on the transmission power allocation information in BS. 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 such as DCI and/or RRC signaling. Thus, UE receives the priority indication information (the second information) such as SRS priority or channel priority through RRC signaling or DCI.
Further, although not mentioned in the previous action, Gaal, in Fig. 8-9 and in Paragraphs [0083], [0103]-[0105], teaches that based on the DCI message and/or RRC configuration, UE receives each scheduling information for each frequency band and according to the scheduling information of each frequency band, the component carriers, the antenna port configuration, and the SRS configuration are identified or configured by UE. Thus, M can be determined by the priority information for SRS configuration of Lee as Gaal is explained.
Further, regarding the argument about the priority rules for the second information, since the amended claim 1 does not include any limitation of priority rules and only claims include M can be determined based on the priority information or the priority indication information, the argument is not accepted.
Therefore, the rejections in the previous office action are maintained, but due to the amendments and new claims, the new rejection is made in this instant office action.
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 1-6, and 13-24 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 a first quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier upon performing the first transmission is determined as M, where M is determined based on second information, and the second information is 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. Further, Gaal, in Fig. 8-9 and in Paragraphs [0083], [0103]-[0105], teaches that based on the DCI message and/or RRC configuration, UE receives each scheduling information for each frequency band and according to the scheduling information of each frequency band, the component carriers, the antenna port configuration, and the SRS configuration are identified or configured by UE.).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises priority indication information.
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 includes the first information and the second 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.
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 priority indication information 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 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 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier being 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 wherein 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]).).
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 where M is further determined based on the second quantity of ports for the second transmission (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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
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 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
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 a first quantity of ports supported by the terminal appratus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier upon performing the first transmission is determined as M, where M is determined based on the 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. Further, Gaal, in Fig. 8-9 and in Paragraphs [0083], [0103]-[0105], teaches that based on the DCI message and/or RRC configuration, UE receives each scheduling information for each frequency band and according to the scheduling information of each frequency band, the component carriers, the antenna port configuration, and the SRS configuration are identified or configured by UE.).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises priority indication information.
Lee teaches that that wherein the second information comprises 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.
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 of priority indication information 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 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 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
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 M is further determined based on the second quantity of ports for the second transmission (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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
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 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
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).)
Regarding claim 19, Gaal teaches that An apparatus, comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, and configured to store non-transitory instructions, the one or more processors being configured to execute the non-transitory instructions thereby causing 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.) sending 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 determining a first quantity of ports supported by the terminal apparatus for uplink transmission on the first uplink carrier upon performing the first transmission as M, where M is determined based on second information, and the second information is 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. Further, Gaal, in Fig. 8-9 and in Paragraphs [0083], [0103]-[0105], teaches that based on the DCI message and/or RRC configuration, UE receives each scheduling information for each frequency band and according to the scheduling information of each frequency band, the component carriers, the antenna port configuration, and the SRS configuration are identified or configured by UE.).
Gaal does not explicitly teach that the second information comprises priority indication information.
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 includes the first information and the second 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.
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 priority indication information 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 20, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 19, -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 21, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 19, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein in response to a priority indicated by priority indication information of the first uplink carrier being 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 wherein 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]).).
Regarding claim 22, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 20, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that where M is further determined based on the second quantity of ports for the second transmission (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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
Regarding claim 23, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 19, -refer to the indicated claim for reference(s).
Gaal further teaches that 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 about priority indication information.
Lee further teaches that wherein 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 wherein 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]).).
Regarding claim 24, combination of Gaal and Lee teaches the features defined in the claims 19, -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).)
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