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 .
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.
Claims 1,5,6,8,9,13,14,and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a1) as being anticipated by Kadalagudde et al. (2021/0058784).
For independent claim 1, Kadalagudde et al. (2021/0058784) discloses a system/method comprising : receiving, from a 5G ( See paragraph 0003 lines 1-5) network data analytics function (NWDAF) of the SNPN, analysis information about UE that has established a PLMN protocol data unit (PDU) session with the PLMN using non-3GPP access ( See paragraph 0037 lines 1-6) ; determining that the UE is to move from the SNPN to the PLMN based on the analysis information received from the NWDAF( See paragraph 0037 lines 1-6 and paragraph 0042 lines 1-8); and instructing the UE to change access for the PLMN PDU session from the non- 3GPP access to 3GPP access based on the determining ( See paragraphs 0037 lines 1-6 and 0042 lines 1-8).
The independent claim 9 is rejected for the same reason as claim 1.
For dependent claims 5,6,8,9,13,and 16 Kadalagudde et al. (2021/0058784) also discloses: wherein the instructing the UE to change access for the PLMN PDU session from the non-3GPP access to the 3GPP access based on the determining comprises: instructing the UE on a handover from the SNPN to the PLMN based on the determining ( See paragraph 0042 lines 1-8); wherein the instructing the UE to change access for the PLMN PDU session from the non-3GPP access to the 3GPP access based on the determining comprises: instructing the UE to switch a user plane resource for the PLMN PDU session from the non-3GPP access to the 3GPP access based on the determining ( See paragraph 0042 lines 1-8); and wherein, before the receiving the analysis information about the UE that has established the PLMN PDU session with the PLMN using the non-3GPP access from the NWDAF of the SNPN,an SNPN PDU session using the 3GPP access is established between the UE and the SNPN, and the PLMN PDU session using the non-3GPP access is established between the UE and the PLMN ( See paragraph 0042 lines 1-8).
Claims 2-4,7,10-12, and 15 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.
Applicant's arguments filed 7/28/2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
In the remarks of 7/28/2026, applicant traverses the rejection under 102(a2). The traversal is based on the ground that Specifically, the Applicant added the phrase "received from the NWDAF" to claim 1 to explicitly establish the relationship with the NWDAF. As a result, amended claim 1 clearly distinguishes over Kadalagudde, which merely discloses conventional inter-network handover and PDU session continuity procedures without any reference to an NWDAF entity or analytics information. This arguments are not found to be persuasive. Applicant’s attention is directed at paragraphs [0003], [0037], and [0042] of Kadalagudde wherein it teaches determining that the UE is to move from the SNPN to the PLMN based on the analysis information received from the NWDAF.
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/DANG T TON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476 /D.T.T/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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