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 office action is a response to application no. 18/519,532 filed on 11/27/2023.
Claims 1 – 20 are pending and ready for examination.
Priority
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2022/095468, filed on May 27, 2022, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110595979.1, filed on May 29, 2021.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDSs) submitted on 11/13/2024 and 01/20/2025 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
Claim Objections
Claim 18 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 18 recites in line 7, “the second of the first frequency”. It should read as “the second half of the first frequency”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 – 20 are 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.
Claims 1 and 11 recite in last paragraph, the limitation
“determining, by the communication device, phase precoding information based on the first information and the second information, wherein after precoding is performed based on the phase precoding information, and channel correlation between an equivalent channel of the second channel on the first frequency domain resource and an equivalent channel of the first channel on the first frequency domain resource is less than channel correlation between the second channel and the first channel on the first frequency domain resource ".
The limitations are not clear about what effect/ consequence/ process is happening after precoding is performed. There is no flow of the statements between “wherein after precoding is performed based on the phase precoding information” and “channel correlation between …. frequency domain resource” in the claims.
The limitation “equivalent channel” is not defined/ explained in the claims; therefore, it is not clear what does it mean by the equivalent channel.
Accordingly, claims 1 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b). Claims 2 – 10 depend on claim 1 and claims 12 – 20 depend on claim 11; therefore, same rational applies to them as well. Therefore, claims 1 – 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph.
Conclusion
The prior arts made of record and not relied upon are considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Zhu et al. (Pub. No. US 2023/0199781 A1) – “SCHEDULING A GROUP OF USER EQUIPMENT BY A NETWORK CELL” discloses a method performed at a network node comprises: determining a first search space for a first terminal device, and a second search space for a second terminal device; determining resources for a first downlink channel for the first terminal device in the first search space, and resources for a second downlink channel for the second terminal device in the second search space; and transmitting a first message on the first downlink channel, and a second message on the second downlink channel. The determined resources for the first downlink channel at least partially overlap with the determined resources for the second downlink channel in time and/or frequency domain. The first terminal device and the second terminal device are scheduled with a manner of Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MU-MIMO.
IMAMURA et al. (Pub. No. US 2013/0294217 A1) – “RADIO TRANSMITTER, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD” discloses a transmission apparatus comprising a plurality of antennas, a scheduler configured to perform transmission scheduling in units of chunks each determined based on a prescribed frequency band and a prescribed time so as to transmit signals via the plurality of antennas, and a transmission circuit configured to apply phase rotations to signals, where a phase rotation difference between adjacent subcarriers in an antenna generated from the phase rotations is set to either a first value smaller than (n-1)/(Fc.Ts) or a second value larger than (n-1)/(Fc.Ts) where Fc denotes the frequency band width of the chunk, Ts denotes a length of time for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and n denotes a number based on an antenna index of the antenna in which the phase rotation was applied to the signals.
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/ROWNAK ISLAM/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2474