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 .
Examiner Note
Examiner notes that the claimed “1st, 2nd, 3rd,” messages are in different claim tree branches. They have no limiting impact upon the claim limitations in each claim tree branch.
Specification
The abstract of the disclosure is objected to because it contains superfluous (according to the present disclosure) and exemplary language (present disclosure relates to). Emend to remove this language. A corrected abstract of the disclosure is required and must be presented on a separate sheet, apart from any other text. See MPEP § 608.01(b).
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(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 1-15, 17-19, and 22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) & 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kronander et al (USPGPN 20210013750; hereinafter Krona).
Independent Claim 1, Krona discloses a charging method (Figs. [2a-7, esp. 2b, 3b, 4]), performed by a terminal (110, Figs. [1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, esp. [1b, 3a]),
the method (Fig. 3b) comprising:
sending a wireless charging request to a base station (100, Figs. [1a, 2a], note that Fig. 2a has a typo and should be 100, see ¶[61]) to request the base station to perform wireless charging on the terminal (s302, s304, ¶[91]).
Independent Claim 12, Krona discloses a charging method (Figs. [2a-7, esp. 2b, 3b, 4]), performed by a base station (100, Figs. [1a, 2a], note that Fig. 2a has a typo and should be 100, see ¶[61]), and the method (Fig. 2b) comprising:
receiving a wireless charging request (s202, s204) sent by a terminal (110, Figs. [1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, esp. [1b, 3a]), and performing wireless charging on the terminal (s206, s214).
Independent Claim 22, Krona discloses an electronic device (110, Figs. [1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, esp. [1b, 3a], described as a phone, ¶’s [11, 58], i.e. an electronic device), comprising:
a processor (112); and
a memory (114) configured to store instructions executable by the processor (Figs. [2a-7, esp. 2b, 3b, 4]);
wherein the processor is configured to (Fig. 3b);
send a radio charging request to a base station to request the base station (100, Figs. [1a, 2a], note that Fig. 2a has a typo and should be 100, see ¶[61]) to perform radio charging on the terminal (s302, s304, ¶’s [08, 09, 29, 66, 67, 85, 91, esp. 29, 67, 91], with “radiation pattern of the charging beam… radiated electromagnetic far field” interpreted to mean radio charging).
Dependent Claim 2, Krona discloses the sending a wireless charging request to a base station comprises: sending information matched with a current state of the terminal to the base station, wherein the information carries the wireless charging request (s302 of s302 & s304 describes this information on the current state: ¶’s [26-28, 39, 62-64, 85, 91, 101, esp. 26, 39])
Dependent Claim 3, Krona discloses the sending information matched with a current state of the terminal to the base station comprises: determining the terminal being in an idle state or an inactive state, and sending a specified preamble to the base station, wherein the specified preamble is configured to indicate the base station to perform wireless charging on the terminal (RRC_connected interpreted to be a specified preamble for active state, while RRC_idle interpreted to be a specified preamble for inactive/idle state and/or the random access procedure of ¶’s [31, 88], see ¶’s [26-32, 86-88, esp. 29-31, 88]).
Dependent Claim 4, Krona discloses the sending a specified preamble to the base station comprises: sending a first message in a random access process carrying the specified preamble to the base station (¶’s [31, 88]).
Dependent Claim 5, Krona discloses the sending information matched with a current state of the terminal to the base station comprises: determining the terminal being in an idle state or an inactive state, and sending a second message in a random access process to the base station (RRC_connected interpreted to be a specified preamble for active state, while RRC_idle interpreted to be a specified preamble for inactive/idle state and/or the random access procedure of ¶’s [31, 88], see ¶’s [26-32, 86-88, esp. 29-31, 88]).
Dependent Claim 6, Krona discloses the terminal is in the idle state, and the second message is RRCSetupRequest or RRCReestablishmentRequest; or,
the terminal is in the inactive state, and the second message is RRCResumeRequest (in light of the message being described to be sent to setup charging, see ¶’s [30, 31, 87, 88], the RRC would correspond to a setup-request).
Dependent Claim 7, Krona discloses the sending information matched with a current state of the terminal to the base station comprises: determining the terminal being in an idle state or an inactive state, and sending a third message in a random access process to the base station (RRC_connected interpreted to be a specified preamble for active state, while RRC_idle interpreted to be a specified preamble for inactive/idle state and/or the random access procedure of ¶’s [31, 88], see ¶’s [26-32, 86-88, esp. 29-31, 88]).
Dependent Claim 8, Krona discloses the terminal is in the idle state, and the third message is RRCSetupComplete or RRCReestablishmentComplete; or, the terminal is in the inactive state, and the third message is RRCResumeComplete (¶’s [26-28, 39, 62-64, 85, 91, esp. 91] describes the registration/request being used to describe completion of the registration procedure along with the requesting of power transfer, where ¶’s [30, 31, 87, 88] describes the communication is performed with RRC methods, i.e. at least RRC of setup complete).
Dependent Claim 9, Krona discloses the sending information matched with a current state of the terminal to the base station comprises: determining the terminal being in a connected state, and sending a radio resource control (RRC) message carrying the wireless charging request to the base station (RRC_connected interpreted to be a specified preamble for active state, while RRC_idle interpreted to be a specified preamble for inactive/idle state and/or the random access procedure of ¶’s [31, 88], see ¶’s [26-32, 86-88, esp. 29-31, 88]).
Dependent Claim 10, Krona discloses the RRC message is at least one of:
User equipment (UE) assistance information (as the device 110 is described as a UE, a request for charging would be UE assistance information, ¶’s [58, 103]); or
defined target information for carrying the wireless charging request (registration of registration would represent a defined target, ¶’s [26-28, 39, 62-64, 85, 91).
Dependent Claim 11, Krona discloses the method further comprises:
receiving charging configuration information sent by the base station; and
receiving, based on the charging configuration information, a signal sent by the base station and for wireless charging (Figs. [2b, 3], configuration information including feedback).
Dependent Claim 13, Krona discloses wherein the performing wireless charging on the terminal comprises: determining, based on a current state of the base station, whether wireless charging is performed on the terminal ([s206-s212, s218] of Fig. 2b shows this determination on whether wireless charging should be performed, and why, and further, s202, if the device has or has not been registered, the base may not perform charging).
Dependent Claim 14, Krona discloses determining, based on the current state of the base station, that wireless charging is performed on the terminal, the method further comprises: determining charging configuration information on wireless charging for the terminal based on the current state of the base station; and performing wireless charging on the terminal based on the charging configuration information ([s202, s218, s208] at least describe these features).
Dependent Claim 15, Krona discloses the current state of the base station comprises at least one of: an antenna use condition of the base station; or a load condition of the base station (both apply to the load condition and antenna use of the base station when sweeping the charging beam, since the antenna is in use and is thus loaded, where the feedback of s208 represents this current state applied to the charging configuration).
Dependent Claim 17, Krona discloses the method further comprises:
sending the charging configuration information to the terminal to indicate the terminal to receive, based on the charging configuration information, a signal sent by the base station (see [s206, s216, s222] along with registration information ¶’s [26-28, 39, 62-64, 85, 91] & Fig. 4).
Dependent Claim 18, Krona discloses the charging configuration information comprises at least one of: antenna information for wireless charging; time information for wireless charging; or power for wireless charging (scan procedure of Figs. [2b, 4], at least ¶[101] describes “a message is sent from the base station 100 to indicate to the wireless device 110 that the scan procedure now commences”, i.e. at least power for wireless charging [wireless power scan starting implies power starting to be emitted in the high frequency] and time information for wireless charging [now implies a start time] based on the antenna [i.e. antenna information for wireless charging implying the antenna is used ], see scan procedure shown in Figs. [5a-7]).
Dependent Claim 19, Krona discloses the sending the charging configuration information to the terminal comprises at least one of: sending an RRCReconfiguration signaling carrying the charging configuration information to the terminal; sending an RRCSetupComplete signaling carrying the charging configuration information to the terminal; sending an RRCReestablishmentComplete signaling carrying the charging configuration information to the terminal; and sending an RRCResumeComplete signaling carrying the charging configuration information to the terminal (RRC_connected interpreted to be a specified preamble for active state, while RRC_idle interpreted to be a specified preamble for inactive/idle state and/or the random access procedure of ¶’s [31, 88], see ¶’s [26-32, 86-88, esp. 29-31, 88], thus a RRC-setup-complete at least is demonstrated).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 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.
The factual inquiries for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claim 16 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kronander et al (USPGPN 20210013750; hereinafter Krona) in view of Lee et al (USPGPN 20160359375)
Dependent Claim 16, Krona is silent to the determining, based on a current state of the base station, whether wireless charging is performed on the terminal comprises:
determining that wireless charging is not performed on the terminal, wherein the current state is that a number of spare antennae of the base station is less than a preset number threshold;
or,
determining that wireless charging is not performed on the terminal, wherein the current state is that a load of the base station is greater than a preset load threshold.
Lee teaches the determining, based on a current state of the base station, whether wireless charging is performed on the terminal comprises:
determining that wireless charging is not performed on the terminal, wherein the current state is that a number of spare antennae of the base station is less than a preset number threshold;
or,
determining that wireless charging is not performed on the terminal, wherein the current state is that a load of the base station is greater than a preset load threshold (abstract, ¶’s [126, 128, 280, 285, 286, 319, esp. 285] describes giving the denial as due to there not being enough power for more than a quantity, the device may be declined, i.e. a load of the base station is greater than a preset load threshold). Lee teaches by performing these steps, it provides improved efficiency (¶[84], by preventing the load from experiencing wasted power due to under-voltage [i.e. when not enough power can be sent to charge, power is wasted if it is tried])
It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify Krona with Lee to provide improved efficiency.
Conclusion
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/JOHN T TRISCHLER/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2859
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