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 .
DETAILED ACTION
This action is in response to application filed on 12/26/2025.
Claims 12-18 have been examined and are pending with this action.
Election/Restriction
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group I, claims 12-18 in the reply filed on 12/26/2025 is acknowledged.
Priority
Examiner acknowledges that the Applicant claims a priority benefit of PCT/CN2022/091397 filed on 05/07/2022.
Drawings
The drawings were received on 11/07/2023 and these drawings are accepted.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 9/17/2024 & 12/2/2024 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Oath/Declaration
Examiner Note: Oath is missing.
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 of this title, 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 12, 13, 15 & 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable of WU et al (US 2023/0179345) in view of Buthler et al (US 2023/0096912).
As per claim 12, WU discloses a method (Wu: [ABS]: “a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device”), comprising:
receiving, by a first device, first information from a second device (WU: [0100]: “when a terminal device receives a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmitted by a network device by scheduling a first HARQ process”), wherein the first information indicates a plurality of first moments, the plurality of first moments are configured to be used by the first device to send second information to the second device (WU: [0100]: “the network device by scheduling the first HARQ process before a first moment; where the first moment is determined according to a second moment, and the second moment is a transmission end moment of sending first HARQ-ACK feedback information corresponding to the first PDSCH from the terminal device to the network device,”),
decoding, by the first device, the first data information (WU: [0135]: “the first HARQ-ACK feedback information includes: an ACK, or, a NACK. For example, the first HARQ-ACK feedback information is ACK information or NACK information obtained by decoding the first PDSCH.”),; and
sending, by the first device, the second information to the second device at a first feedback moment wherein the first feedback moment is comprised in the plurality of first moments (WU: [0010]: “where the first moment is a transmission end moment of receiving first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback information corresponding to the first PDSCH by the network device from the terminal device, or, the first moment is determined according to a second moment, where the second moment is a transmission end moment of sending the first PDSCH by the network device..”)
WU does not explicitly teach the result of decoded data.
Buthler however discloses the second information indicates a result of decoding first data information by the first device (Buthler: [0059]: “indicating the result of an attempt to decode the data and including range estimation information.”),
Therefore, it would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the system of WU view of Buthler to figure out the result of decided data. One would be motivated to do so because this technique advantageously aids in range estimation. (Buthler).
Claim 15 is rejected based on rationale provided for claim 12.
As per claim 2, WU/Buthler discloses the method according to claim 12, wherein the first feedback moment is an earliest first moment in the plurality of first moments (WU: [0199]: “the network device no longer transmits a second PDSCH by scheduling the HARQ process x to the terminal device before the end moment of slot n+18 in the uplink slots of the network device, then the earliest slot at which the terminal device may receive again the second PDSCH transmitted by scheduling the HARQ process x i.”). that is after the first device completes decoding of the first data information (WU: [0135]: “the first HARQ-ACK feedback information includes: an ACK, or, a NACK. For example, the first HARQ-ACK feedback information is ACK information or NACK information obtained by decoding the first PDSCH.”).
Claim 16 is rejected based on rationale provided for claim 13.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 14 & 17-18 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. This includes:
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/SIBTE H BUKHARI/Examiner, Art Unit 2449