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 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.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 9, 33 and 34 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Ma et al. US 12,604,299 B2.
Claims 9, 33 and 34:
Ma discloses a paging method, comprising: detecting a wake-up signal successfully (See col 4 lines 59-64, “…the PEI signal may inform the UE in advance of whether the UE needs to be waken up to receive the PO. Different positions of a PEI relative to the PO and an SSB cause different power saving effects…”); and monitoring a paging occasion (PO) or a paging early indication (PEI) associated with the wake-up signal (See fig.7, PEI and PO), wherein the paging method further comprises: detecting the wake-up signal successfully (See col 4 lines 59-64, “…the PEI signal may inform the UE in advance of whether the UE needs to be waken up to receive the PO. Different positions of a PEI relative to the PO and an SSB cause different power saving effects…”): and monitoring a PO or a PEI after a first time gap (See fig. 7, monitoring PO after PEI), wherein said detecting the wake-up signal successfully; and monitoring a PO or a PEI after a first time gap comprises: detecting the wake-up signal successfully, and monitoring the PO X milliseconds after a first time point or X time slots after the first time point, wherein the X milliseconds or the X time slots comprise N synchronization signal block bursts, and the first time point is an end time point of the wake-up signal (See col 23 lines 20-44, “the starting position or the ending position of the sending occasion of the PEI is the n slots before the position of the associated reference point…”. Also see fig. 8, PEI is at least n slots before PO).
With regard to claims 33, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising a program stored therein, wherein the program (See col 35 lines 15-35 and fig. 11, computer-readable medium configured to store software program).
With regard to claims 34, a user equipment, comprising: one or more processors; a memory; and one or more computer programs (See col 35 lines 15-35 and fig. 11, processor and memory storing a software program).
Conclusion
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HASHIM S. BHATTI
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2472
/HASHIM S BHATTI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2475
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