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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) 26, 27, 32, 38, and 40 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Yuan US 12349129 in view of Huang US 20210400714.
Regarding claims 26, 32, 38, Yuan teaches one or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), are to cause the UE to:
identify, in a received physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a single downlink control information (DCI) (fig. 4, Thus, the PDCCH 410/420 includes DCI that schedules PUSCHs on a group of cells including the cell 1 and the cell 2, col. 10 lines 58) that is related to a first set of one or more physical shared channels on a first component carrier (CC) and a second CC (wherein the indication is associated with a group of multiple component carriers (CCs) on which respective PUSCH transmissions are scheduled by a single downlink control information (DCI), claim 1);
transmit or receive, based on the DCI, the first set of one or more physical shared channels (claim 1); and
Yuan is silent on the DCI identifying a second set of two or more physical shared channels on a second CC; and
transmit or receive, based on the DCI, the second set of two or more physical shared channels.
Huang teaches the DCI identifying a second set of two or more physical shared channels; and
transmit or receive, based on the DCI, the second set of two or more physical shared channels (DCI format 0_1 is used for the scheduling of one or multiple PUSCH in one cell, [0110]).
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 Yuan by the DCI identifying a second set of two or more physical shared channels on a second CC; and transmit or receive, based on the DCI, the second set of two or more physical shared channels, as suggested by Huang. This modification would benefit the system by enabling the UE to transmit on multiple PUSCHs based upon receiving a single DCI.
Regarding claim 27, 40, the first set or second set include a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) (Yuan: PUSCH, claim 1).
Claim(s) 28, 29, 41, 42 are is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of Yuan and Huang as applied to claims 26, 38 above, and further in view of Li US 20230199735.
Regarding claims 28, 41, the combination is silent on the second set of two or more physical shared channels are transmitted or received in consecutive slots.
Li teaches a set of two or more physical shared channels are transmitted or received in consecutive slots ([0168]).
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 the second set of two or more physical shared channels are transmitted or received in consecutive slots, as suggested by Li. This modification would benefit the system by efficiently using time domain resources for transmitting the PUSCH.
Regarding claim 29, 42, the second set of two or more physical shared channels are transmitted or received in non- consecutive slots (Li: [0168]).
Claim(s) 33 are is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of Yuan and Huang as applied to claim 26 above, and further in view of Bang US 20210329608.
Regarding claim 33, the combination is silent on the DCI includes a first indication of a first frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) that is to be applied to the first set.
Bang teaches the DCI includes a first indication of a first frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) that is to be applied to the first set ([0261]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 30, 31, 34-37, 39, 43, and 44 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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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476