DETAILED ACTION
Status of Case
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This Office Action is in response to the claims filed on 10/2/2023.
Claims 1-14, 16-18, 21-22, and 25 are pending.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) filed on 10/2/2023 and 10/31/2024 have been considered by Examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 1-2, 14, 16, 21, 22, and 25 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wei (USPAN 2021/0315049).
Consider claims 1, 21, and 22, Wei discloses a method for processing data (see figure 8, reproduced below for convenience; also, see paragraphs 161 and 227, wherein disclosed is said method), and a corresponding UE, comprising: at least one processor; a memory; and at least one computer program, wherein the at least one computer program is stored in the memory and comprises instructions, and when being executed by the UE, the instructions cause the UE to (see figure 18, wherein disclosed is said UE comprising said processor 1808, said memory 1802, and said computer program 1814), and a corresponding non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and when being executed by a computer, the computer program causes the computer (see elements 1802, 1812, and 1814 in figure 18, wherein disclosed is said computer-readable storage medium) to performing:
determining validity of a timing advance (TA) (see paragraph 161: “For TA validation check, the UE 820 may measure the RS(s) received in action 808, and determine the validity the corresponding TA value according to the measurement result. The RS(s) to be measured may be preconfigured (or indicated) by the BS 840. The measurement result of the RS(s) may be an RSRP value of the RS(s). The UE 820 may compare the RSRP value of the RS(s) with a preconfigured value (e.g., an offset), a threshold, or the RSRP value of another RS to determine whether a TA value is valid”).
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Consider claims 2 and 25, Wei discloses that the determining the validity of the TA comprises: in response to a determination that a change in reference signal received power (RSRP) of a serving synchronization signal block (SSB) exceeds a first threshold, determining that the TA is invalid; and in response to a determination that the change in the RSRP of the serving SSB does not exceed the first threshold, determining that the TA is valid (see paragraph 161: “For TA validation check, the UE 820 may measure the RS(s) received in action 808, and determine the validity the corresponding TA value according to the measurement result. The RS(s) to be measured may be preconfigured (or indicated) by the BS 840. The measurement result of the RS(s) may be an RSRP value of the RS(s). The UE 820 may compare the RSRP value of the RS(s) with a preconfigured value (e.g., an offset), a threshold, or the RSRP value of another RS to determine whether a TA value is valid”; see paragraph 227: “The RS received in action 1310 may be an SSB”).
Consider claim 14, Wei discloses that the serving SSB is an SSB indicated in higher-layer signaling (see paragraph 227).
Consider claim 16, Wei discloses that the serving SSB is an SSB associated with a resource used by a UE for uplink configured-grant (CG) transmission (see paragraph 227: uplink CG transmission).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-13 and 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
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/JAMAL JAVAID/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2412