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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
Claim(s) 1 and 11-13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Bai US 20210153239 in view of Yuan US 20230397204, and Babaei US 20220210800.
Regarding claim 1, 12, 13, Bai teaches a method at a User Equipment (“UE”), the method comprising:
receiving a control resource set (“(CORESET”) configuration, wherein the CORESET configuration indicates a plurality of beams and a corresponding duration for each indicated beam for at least CORESET identifier (“ID”) (A CORESET describes a set of time and frequency resources associated with each beam on which the PDCCH is transmitted ([0090]).
The combination is silent on receiving a physical downlink control channel “PDCCH” transmission in a first CORESET, the PDCCH transmission scheduling multiple physical channel transmissions; and
communicating the multiple physical channels using one or more of the plurality of beams associated with a lowest CORESET ID, wherein the communicating comprises receiving a downlink transmission, transmitting an uplink transmission, or a combination thereof.
Yuan receiving a physical downlink control channel “PDCCH” transmission in a first CORESET, the PDCCH transmission scheduling multiple physical channel transmissions; and
communicating the multiple physical channels using one or more of the plurality of beams associated with a lowest CORESET ID, wherein the communicating comprises receiving a downlink transmission, transmitting an uplink transmission, or a combination thereof (fig. 7, the UE may determine that the default downlink receive beam is associated with a TCI state or a QCL assumption associated with one of the multiple CORESETs in the PDCCH repetition configuration, multiple CORESETs having a lowest or highest CORESET identifier, UE may determine that the multiple default downlink receive beams are associated with respective TCI states of the multiple CORESETs (ID) [0095]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of the combination by receiving a physical downlink control channel “PDCCH” transmission in a first CORESET, the PDCCH transmission scheduling multiple physical channel transmissions; and communicating the multiple physical channels using one or more of the plurality of beams associated with a lowest CORESET ID, wherein the communicating comprises receiving a downlink transmission, transmitting an uplink transmission, or a combination thereof, as shown by Yuan. This modification would benefit the system by providing a proven, reliable method for communicating with the RAN.
The combination is silent on multiple physical channel transmissions are scheduled by a single downlink control information (“DCI”).
Babaei teaches multiple physical channel transmissions are scheduled by a single downlink control information (“DCI”) (There is a need to enhance the existing DCI formats and/or indication of scheduling information and/or related processes when a single DCI scheduled multiple TBs/physical channels (e.g., PUSCHs or PDSCHs) via multiple cells, [0241]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of the combination by multiple physical channel transmissions are scheduled by a single downlink control information (“DCI”), as shown by Babaei. This modification would benefit the system by providing an efficient method for scheduling multiple physical channel transmissions.
Regarding claim 11, the CORESET configuration comprises a plurality of beams associated with multiple transmission-reception points in the RAN (Bai: fig. 5C, the base station 502 may transmit a narrowly focused MC beam 522 in a direction of UE 506 while the TRP 508 transmits a narrowly focused MC beam 524 in a direction of UE 504, [0078]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10, 14, and 15-20 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.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to the amended independent claim(s) have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476