DETAILED ACTION
1. The following Office Action is based on the application filed on 18 January 2024, having claims 1-8 and drawing figures 1-20.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. 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
3. 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.
Claims 1, 4-5, and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated Li et al. (US 2021/0329658 A1).
For claim 1, Li discloses a user equipment (UE) (Fig 1, user device 132), comprising: a processor (Fig 7, processor 1204) configured to determine, based on a radio resource control (RRC) parameter, scheduling request (SR) multiplexing on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) ([0065-0066] the gNB indicates multiplexed UCI information for PUSCH via RRC signaling to the UE); and
transmitting circuitry (Fig 7, transceiver 1202A or 1202B) configured to: if at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for high priority (HP) SR overlaps with a low priority (LP) PUSCH (Fig 2B, elements 210 and 220 show HP SRs that overlap with a LP PUSCH (212 and 222)), and if HP SR multiplexing on low priority (LP) PUSCH is configured and enabled (Fig 2B, element 224 shows the HP SR is multiplexed with LP PUSCH, meaning SR multiplexing is configured and enabled), and if there is no positive HP SR (Fig 2B (a) SR is negative (i.e., SR is not triggered or transmitted by UE), transmit the LP PUSCH with or without negative SR multiplexing (Fig 2B (a), SR is negative, only the LP PUSCH is transmitted).
For claim 4, Li discloses the transmitting circuitry is further configured to: if HP SR multiplexing on LP PUSCH is not configured and enabled, and if there is no positive HP SR, transmit the LP PUSCH (Fig 2B (a), SR is negative and multiplexing is not configured, only the LP PUSCH is transmitted).
For claim 5, Li discloses a base station (gNB) (Fig 1, gNB or base station 134), comprising: a processor (Fig 7, processor 1204) configured to determine, based on a radio resource control (RRC) parameter, scheduling request (SR) multiplexing on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) ([0065-0066] the gNB indicates multiplexed UCI information for PUSCH via RRC signaling to the UE); and
receiving circuitry (Fig 7, transceiver 1202A or 1202B) configured to: if at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for high priority (HP) SR overlaps with a low priority (LP) PUSCH Fig 2B, elements 210 and 220 show HP SRs that overlap with a LP PUSCH (212 and 222)), and if HP SR multiplexing on low priority (LP) PUSCH is configured and enabled, and if there is no positive HP SR (Fig 2B, element 224 shows the HP SR is multiplexed with LP PUSCH, meaning SR multiplexing is configured and enabled), receive the LP PUSCH with or without negative SR multiplexing (Fig 2B (a), SR is negative, only the LP PUSCH is received from the UE).
For claim 8, Li discloses the receiving circuitry is further configured to: if HP SR multiplexing on LP PUSCH is not configured and enabled, and if there is no positive HP SR, receive the LP PUSCH (Fig 2B (a), SR is negative and multiplexing is not configured, only the LP PUSCH is transmitted).
Allowable Subject Matter
4. Claims 2-3 and 6-7 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
5. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See PTO-892 form.
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/ELISABETH BENOIT MAGLOIRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2471