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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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.
Claim 19 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Yang (US Publication 2025/0261038 A1).
Regarding to claim 19, Yang discloses a base station 2170 (fig. 21B), comprising: a memory 2158; and one or more processors 2150 configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory (page 21 paragraph 0209), cause the base station to: transmit a configured grant CG to a user equipment UE (page 10 paragraph 0126); receive 1220 (fig. 12), via resources scheduled by the CG, a buffer status report BSR including an indication of a volume (size) of a first packet stream (data burst) and a volume of a second packet stream (page 9 paragraph 0117); transmit 1250, to the UE, a dynamic grant DG for UL resources for the UE based on the volume of the first packet stream and the volume of the second packet stream (page 10 paragraph 0126); and receive 1260, via the UL resources, the first packet stream and the second packet stream (page 9 paragraph 0119).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 20 is 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.
Claims 1-18 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The prior art of record fails to teach or make obvious for “receive, from the application, prebooking information for a second packet stream, the prebooking information indicating an estimated arrival time and volume of the second packet stream; determine whether the estimated arrival time of the second packet stream precedes a predefined threshold time measured from a buffer status report (BSR) occasion; and when the estimated arrival time precedes the predefined threshold time, generate a BSR for the first packet stream and the second packet stream”, when such prebooking information and buffer status report BSR are considered within the specific structure of the device recited in claim 1. The prior art of record fails to teach or make obvious for “generate prebooking information for one or more additional packet streams, the prebooking information for the one or more additional packet streams, comprising a prescheduled transmission time for a second packet stream, a jitter associated with transmitting the second packet stream to the a baseband processor of the UE, and a volume of the second packet stream”, when such prebooking information is considered within the specific structure of the device recited in claim 16.
Conclusion
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/DUC T DUONG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467