DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-4 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being unpatentable by Park et al. (European Patent Application Number: 3 735 049).
Consider claim 1; Park discloses a communication equipment configured to communicate with a plurality of networks using a plurality of subscriber identity modules, the communication equipment comprising:
a communicator (par. 41, lines 15-17) configured to
transmit capability information to support the plurality of subscriber identity modules to a base station of a first network included in the plurality of networks (par. 227, line 5; par. 229, lines 1-2),
transmit a UEAssistanceInformation message to the base station (par. 229, lines 1-6), the UEAssistanceInformation message including information requesting configuration of gaps for performing measurement in a second network included in the plurality of networks and monitoring of a paging in the second network (par. 226, lines 1-8; par. 229, lines 1-6), and
receive from the base station (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5), a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including the configuration of the gaps according to the information requesting the configuration of the gaps (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5); and
a controller configured to perform the measurement and the monitoring of the paging in the second network in the gaps configured based on the configuration of the gaps (par. 241, lines 1-5).
Consider claim 2; Park discloses the configuration of the gaps includes a gap length, a gap repetition period and a gap offset, for each gap (par. 232, lines 1-5; par. 233, lines 1-2, 5-7).
Consider claim 3; Park discloses a base station of a first network included in a plurality of networks in a mobile communication system having a communication equipment configured to communicate with the plurality of networks using a plurality of subscriber identity modules, the base station comprising:
a communicator (par. 20, lines 7-8) configured to
receive capability information to support the plurality of subscriber identity modules from the communication equipment (par. 227, line 5; par. 229, lines 1-2),
receive UEAssistanceInformation message from the communication equipment (par. 229, lines 1-6), the UEAssistanceInformation message including information requesting configuration of gaps for performing measurement in the second network included in the plurality of networks and monitoring of a paging in the second network (par. 226, lines 1-8; par. 229, lines 1-6), and
transmit to the communication equipment (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5), a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including configuration of the gaps in accordance with the information requesting the configuration of the gaps (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5).
Consider claim 4; Park discloses a communication method performed by a communication equipment configured to communicate with a plurality of networks using a plurality of subscriber identity modules, the communication method comprising the steps of:
transmitting capability information to support the plurality of subscriber identity modules to a base station of a first network included in the plurality of networks (par. 227, line 5; par. 229, lines 1-2),
transmitting a UEAssistanceInformation message to the base station (par. 229, lines 1-6), the UEAssistanceInformation message including information requesting configuration of gaps for performing measurement in a second network included in the plurality of networks and monitoring of a paging in the second network (par. 226, lines 1-8; par. 229, lines 1-6), and
receiving from the base station (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5), a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including the configuration of the gaps according to the information requesting the configuration of the gaps (par. 237, lines 1-5; par. 238, lines 1-5); and
performing the measurement and the monitoring of the paging in the second network in the gaps configured based on the configuration of the gaps (par. 241, lines 1-5).
Takahashi is also a reference that discloses a base station transmitting a RRC reconfiguration message including a gap configuration.
Conclusion
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