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 .
Election/Restrictions
Claims 19-29 and 32-33 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected invention, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 08/03/2026.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-17 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Go (US 2023/0284045 A1).
Regarding claim 1, Go discloses an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UIE), comprising: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
receive, from a base station, an indication of at least one of an update to one or more power control (PC) parameters, an update to an uplink (UL) beam indication, or an update to the one or more PC parameters associated with the UL beam indication; [0435, see also Fig. 23]
configure, based on the indication, a PC adjustment state for an active UL bandwidth part (BWP) of a component carrier (CC); [0109-0111 show how a BWP configuration is received as indicated by a base station signal to configure the UL BWP of a UE; also see 0418 as it is shown in light of the process of Figure 23]
and transmit, to the base station, an uplink channel or an uplink signal based on the configured PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC. [0435, the UE transmits to the BS based on received and updated parameters from the BS] [The back and forth signaling is also shown in Fig. 23 and the additional related text]
Regarding claim 2, Go discloses the apparatus of claim 1, wherein to configure the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC, the at least one processor is configured to:
maintain the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC; reset the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC; or determine whether to reset the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC. [0139, the procedures are set to maintain the beamset of the BS and terminal; 0428-0429, still in the context of the Fig. 23 embodiment, the parameters may be updated and thus reset; it is noted that these feature are claimed in the alternative]
3. (Original) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the indication is based on a pre-configuration via high layer signaling. [0426-0427]
4. (Original) The apparatus of claim 3, wherein to configure the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC, the at least one processor is configured to maintain the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC. [0417, processor 102/202 may be used to control transmit and receive channels, beyond this it is unclear what is further limiting a configured state must be maintained for some time to be used]
5. (Original) The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the indication is received via downlink control information (DCI) or a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE).[0433-0434]
6. (Original) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the indication is based on an updated configuration via high layer signaling. [0426-0427]
7. (Original) The apparatus of claim 6, wherein to configure the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC, the at least one processor is configured to reset the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC. [0428-0429, the beam setting on the uplink may be updated (reset)]
8. (Original) The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the indication is received via radio resource control (RRC) signaling. [0427]
9. (Original) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the UL beam indication includes at least one of spatial relation information, an UL common transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, or a joint UL and downlink (DL) common TCI state. [0283]
10. (Original) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the indication corresponds to an update to the one or more PC parameters associated with the UL common TCI state or the joint UL and DL common TCI state. [0289]
11. (Original) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the UL common TCI state or the joint UL and DL common TCI state is: (1) selected for an UL transmission, (2) activated for a potential UL transmission, or (3) configured for the potential UL transmission. [0289]
12. (Original) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more PC parameters are: (1) configured in an associated TCI state information element (IE), (2) configured outside of the associated TCI state IE, or (3) configured outside of all TCI state IEs and applied to all TCI states. [0297]
13. (Original) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
reset the PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC when the one or more PC parameters associated with the UL common TCI state or the joint UL and DL common TCI state are updated. [0313-0314 the transmit beam and thus the PC is reset/updated when the TCU states are updated]
14. (Original) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more PC parameters include at least one of: a target signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value (PO), a pathloss (PL) compensation factor (alpha), a closed loop index, or a PL reference signal (RS). [TABLE 8 shows at least path loss reference signal]
15. (Original) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the PC adjustment state corresponds to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) PC adjustment state, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) PC adjustment state, or a sounding reference signal (SRS) PC adjustment state. [0117 shows the method using PUCCH and PUSCH; SRS is shown in at least 0196-0197]
16. (Original) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a transceiver coupled to the at least one processor;
wherein the uplink channel or the uplink signal is a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a physical random access channel (PRACH). [0419]
17. (Original) A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UIE), comprising:
receiving, from a base station, an indication of at least one of an update to one or more power control (PC) parameters, an update to an uplink (UL) beam indication, or an update to the one or more PC parameters associated with the UL beam indication;
configuring, based on the indication, a PC adjustment state for an active UL bandwidth part (BWP) of a component carrier (CC);
and transmitting, to the base station, an uplink channel or an uplink signal based on the configured PC adjustment state for the active UL BWP of the CC. [0435, the UE transmits to the BS based on received and updated parameters from the BS] [The back and forth signaling is also shown in Fig. 23 and the additional related text]
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See the attached PTO-892 for further state of art references..
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