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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 .
Claim Interpretation
Re Claim 13, claim recites “upon the triggering condition being fulfilled: executing the conditional reconfiguration by applying the configuration parameters for the second cell” and it is contingent limitations according to MPEP 2111.04. The examiner interprets the cited limitation as a positive limitation that the method performs the executing step.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 10 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.
Claim 10 recites the limitation " The wireless terminal of claim 9" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It is unclear the claim is depended upon claim 9 or claim 1, since there is no “wireless terminal of claim 9”. Therefore, the claim is 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.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9, 11-13 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Claim 1 which recites the wireless terminal for conditional reconfiguration, the prior art of record discloses receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the first cell, a recon- figuration message comprising a conditional reconfiguration for a second cell, the conditional reconfiguration comprising: a triggering condition, configuration parameters, and a first version of system information. However, the prior art of record neither anticipate nor render obvious the limitation as claimed, with respect to wireless terminal comprising: processor circuitry configured to establish a connection to an access node serving a first cell; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the first cell, a recon- figuration message comprising a conditional reconfiguration for a second cell, the conditional reconfiguration comprising: a triggering condition, configuration parameters, and a first version of system information; the processor circuitry further configured, upon the triggering condition being fulfilled, to: execute the conditional reconfiguration by applying the configuration parameters for the second cell; and, determine whether or not the first version of the system information is applied for the second cell, based on whether or not a second version of the system information is received from the second cell after receiving the conditional reconfiguration and before executing the conditional re-configuration.
The prior art of record, also does not teach or suggest the access node and the method as recited in claim 7 and claim 13 for the same reason as stated for claim 1 above.
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Wu (US 2023/0388891 A1) – managing UE information after preparing a conditional mobility procedure
Awada et al. (US 2022/0361071 A1) – conditional handover for wireless networks
Ishii (US 2019/0045379 A1) – on-demand system information for wireless terminal connected state
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/KENNETH T LAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2631