Detailed Action
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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 3/3/2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
Applicant amended claim 23 to recite, “wherein the coordinating is over an established signaling link with the high altitude platform station using at least one of an x2 or xn interface.”
Claim Objections
Claim 12 is objected to because of the following informalities: Within claim 1, the work “cell” is misspelled “ce”. See last line. Appropriate correction is required.
Here, claim 12 has been clarified to disclose Regarding 23, Kim discloses a method, comprising:
determining, by a network node associated with at least one terrestrial network cell of a communication network (see CTC, [0041]), a coverage area associated with a high altitude platform station (determines the coverage [0041]) of the communication network is impacting the at least one terrestrial network cell (see [0082] discloses breakdown of which signal on which subcarriers are affected wherein “interreference may occur”), wherein the
determining is based at least on an antenna gain pattern and transmit power associated with the high altitude platform (see “determines the coverage” and “an antenna gain and a transmission power between the multi-beams of the satellite BS” [0136]) station identifying a coverage area of the at the high altitude platform station (see satellite BS, [0136]); and
based on the determining (see “confirms”, [0035]), coordinating with the high altitude platform station ((“whether the signal interference occurs” with CTC from the satellite base station [0035]) at least one resource allocation to minimize interference at the impacted at least one terrestrial network cell caused by the coverage area of the high altitude platform station (see [0016], “which efficiently reuses frequencies to minimize interference between signals transmitted to a multi service area and a plurality of users when providing a service through a satellite base station and a CTC”);
Kim does not specifically disclose however Xu discloses wherein the coordinating is over an established signaling link with each of the impacted at least one terrestrial network cell using at least one of an X2 or Xn interface (see X2 and Xn in [0064], where in X2 and Xn interfaces is well-known to carry network traffic here).
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) 23 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kim (US 2011/0053628 A1) in view of Xu et al. (US 2021/0075501 A1)
Regarding 23, Kim discloses a method, comprising:
determining, by a network node associated with at least one terrestrial network cell of a communication network (see CTC, [0041]), a coverage area associated with a high altitude platform station (determines the coverage [0041]) of the communication network is impacting the at least one terrestrial network cell (see [0082] discloses breakdown of which signal on which subcarriers are affected wherein “interreference may occur”), wherein the
determining is based at least on an antenna gain pattern and transmit power associated with the high altitude platform (see “determines the coverage” and “an antenna gain and a transmission power between the multi-beams of the satellite BS” [0136]) station identifying a coverage area of the at the high altitude platform station (see satellite BS, [0136]); and
based on the determining (see “confirms”, [0035]), coordinating with the high altitude platform station ((“whether the signal interference occurs” with CTC from the satellite base station [0035]) at least one resource allocation to minimize interference at the impacted at least one terrestrial network cell caused by the coverage area of the high altitude platform station (see [0016], “which efficiently reuses frequencies to minimize interference between signals transmitted to a multi service area and a plurality of users when providing a service through a satellite base station and a CTC”);
Kim does not specifically disclose however Xu discloses wherein the coordinating is over an established signaling link with each of the impacted at least one terrestrial network cell using at least one of an X2 or Xn interface (see X2 and Xn in [0064], where in X2 and Xn interfaces is well-known to carry network traffic here).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 1, 12, 14-22, 34, 37-38 are allowed.
Conclusion
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/KHALID W SHAHEED/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2643