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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claims 1-8 are objected to because of the following informalities: In claims 1, 6, 7 and 8. The language “estimating the presence/absence of an increase or an increase amount in the total number of interference…..” is grammatically incorrect. It should read “estimating the presence/absence of an increase in the amount of the total number of interferences….”. Claims 2-5 are objected to since they depend upon claim 1. Appropriate correction is required.
Claims 1-8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. On the last two lines of claims 1, 6, 7 and 8. It is unclear what “at least one form of limitation and correction” means and how it relates to the claimed “response to the interfering wireless communicator” recited just prior. These are vague and indefinite terms. What is being limited and how much? What is being corrected? The meets and bounds of the claims need to be clear.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Furuichi WO 2021/100601 A1 describes a feature in which when a base station or an intermediate device transmits a frequency use permission request to a communication control device, the communication control device performs frequency use permission processing while taking into account a primary system, a secondary use prohibition area, and the presence of nearby base station devices.
Furuichi WO 2019/142440 A1 describes a feature in which when a wireless communication device or a network manager transmits a frequency use request, a frequency management database determines the allocation of a frequency band and operating parameters in accordance with a device registration ID associated with a frequency request. However, the documents do not disclose or suggest the following features: "an interfering device disposed in a provider network provides a resource request based on a message issued with regard to the use of a wireless resource to a control device disposed in a public network" and "a response based on a message issued by the control device in response to the resource request is provided to the interfering device that issued the resource request"; and "registration information relating to some or all of the used frequency channel, the position, the antenna gain, and the permitted interference amount of the device that is interfered with is acquired", "information relating to some or all of the position, the transmission power, the antenna gain, and the usable frequency channels of the interfering device is acquired", "the amount of increase in or the presence/absence of an increase in the total interference amount occurring in each of the used frequency channels of the device that is interfered with is estimated when the interfering device performs transmission at the aforementioned transmission power in each of the frequency channels", and "the estimated result of the amount of increase is reflected in the form of at least one of a limit and a modification in at least one of the resource request from the interfering device and the response to the interfering device". Even in light of common technical knowledge at the time of filing, a person skilled in art could not easily conceive of these features.
Yavuz US-20210168618-A1 teaches a method and apparatus for deploying Base Stations/Access Points (BS/APs) in an enterprise wireless communications network. The method is useful to deploy BS/APs in a managed radio communication environment to mitigate and prevent interference between competing transmitters in the area. The BS/APs may comprise Citizens Broadband radio Service Devices (CBSDs) deployed in 4G and 5G enterprise communications networks operating under FCC rules relating to Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). Spectrum may be managed by a Spectrum Management Entity (SME). In order to pre-register BS/APs prior to deployment, location coordinates corresponding to an enterprise address may be used. A domain proxy (DP) may request registration, obtain a spectrum grant, and maintain the grant. After installation of the BS/APs, the spectrum grant is used to make Radio Environment Monitoring (REM) measurements and determine an RF environment, which is then used to mitigate interference in the enterprise network by assigning optimized channels to each BS/AP for operation.
Claims 1-8 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art of record do not disclose or suggest the following features: An interference control system for wireless communication, wherein a repeater disposed between an interfering wireless communicator and the controller; providing a controller disposed in a public network with a resource application based on a message issued regarding use of a wireless resource by an interfering wireless communicator disposed in a carrier network; providing a response based on a message issued by the controller in response to the resource application to the interfering wireless communicator that has issued the resource application; acquiring registration information about some or all of used frequency channels, a position, an antenna gain, and an allowable amount of interference of the interfered-with wireless communicator; acquiring information about some or all of a position, a transmission power, an antenna gain, and available frequency channels of the interfering wireless communicator; an increase amount estimation process of estimating the presence or absence of an increase in the a total amount of interference caused in each of the used frequency channels of the interfered-with wireless communicator in a case where the interfering wireless communicator performs transmission in each of the frequency channels with the transmission power; and a reflection process of reflecting an estimation result of the increase amount in at least one of the resource application from the interfering wireless communicator and the response to the interfering wireless communicator in at least one form of limitation and correction.
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/CURTIS A KUNTZ/Primary examiner, Art Unit 2646