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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 1-2, 5-9, 11-12, 15-16, 18-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by LI (Pub. No.: US 2023/0284183A1).
With respect to claim 1:
LI discloses a method for transmitting a paging early indication (PEI), comprising: receiving, by a terminal, a first PEI from a network device, the first PEI being configured to indicate whether the terminal receives paging indication information on a first paging occasion (PO) in a first PO group (parag. 0006-0013 and 0017 discloses terminal obtains PEI information where the PEI information is used to determine and indicate first content).
With respect to claims 2:
LI discloses the method of claim 1, further comprising: determining, by the terminal, a first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI; wherein receiving, by the terminal, the first PEI from the network device comprises: receiving, by the terminal, the first PEI from the network device on the first time domain resource; wherein determining, by the terminal, the first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI comprises: determining, by the terminal, the first time domain resource based on time domain resources occupied by the first PO group and a positional relationship between time domain resources occupied by PO groups and time domain resources occupied by transmitting PEIs (parag. 0064 and 0079).
With respect to claims 5, 18:
LI discloses the method wherein the first PO group comprises part or all of POs within a first paging frame (PF) in which the first PO is located; or the first PO group comprises part or all of POs within a transmission cycle of a first SSB burst set in which the first PO is located; or the first PO group comprises part or all of POs within a first paging cycle in which the first PO is located; or the first PO group comprises part or all of POs within a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle in which the first PO is located (parag. 0037, 0059-0060 discloses POs within a transmission cycle of a first SSB burst set in which the first PO is located).
With respect to claims 6, 19:
LI discloses the method wherein a number of PFs in which a PO in the first PO group is located is M, and M is a positive integer; or a number of SSB burst sets in which the PO in the first PO group is located is P, and P is a positive integer; or a number of paging cycles in which the PO in the first PO group is located is Q, and Q is a positive integer; or a number of DRX cycles in which the PO in the first PO group is located is K, and K is a positive integer (parag. 0033, 0038 and 0075).
With respect to claim 7:
LI discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the first PO group comprises one or more Pos (parag. 0035 and 0039).
With respect to claim 8:
LI discloses a method for transmitting a paging early indication (PEI), comprising: sending, by a network device, a first PEI to a terminal, the first PEI being configured to indicate whether the terminal receives paging indication information on a first paging occasion (PO) in a first PO group (parag. 0006-0013 and 0017 discloses terminal obtains PEI information where the PEI information is used to determine and indicate first content).
With respect to claim 9:
LI discloses the method of claim 8, further comprising: determining, by the network device, a first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI; wherein sending, by the network device, the first PEI to the terminal comprises: sending, by the network device, the first PEI to the terminal on the first time domain resource; wherein determining, by the network device, the first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI comprises: determining, by the network device, the first time domain resource based on time domain resources occupied by the first PO group and a positional relationship between time domain resources occupied by PO groups and time domain resources occupied by transmitting PEIs (parag. 0064 and 0079).
With respect to claim 11:
LI discloses a terminal, comprising: a memory (fig. 7, item 1202), a processor (fig. 7, item 1204) and a communication interface (parag. 0016 discloses interface), wherein the memory is configured to store a program (parag. 0127) and the processor is configured to call the program in the memory to cause the terminal to: receive a first paging early indication (PEI) from a network device, the first PEI being configured to indicate whether the terminal receives paging indication information on a first paging occasion (PO) in a first PO group (parag. 0006-0013 and 0017 discloses terminal obtains PEI information where the PEI information is used to determine and indicate first content).
With respect to claim 12:
LI discloses the terminal wherein the processor is further configured to: determine a first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI; and receive the first PEI from the network device on the first time domain resource; wherein the processor is configured to determine the first time domain resource based on time domain resources occupied by the first PO group and a positional relationship between time domain resources occupied by PO groups and time domain resources occupied by transmitting PEIs (parag. 0137).
With respect to claim 15:
LI discloses a network device, comprising: a memory (fig. 7, item 1202), a processor (fig. 7, item 1204) and a communication interface (parag. 0016), wherein the memory is configured to store a program (parag. 0127), and the processor is configured to call the program in the memory to cause the network device to: send a first PEI to a terminal, the first PEI being configured to indicate whether the terminal receives paging indication information on a first paging occasion (PO) in a PO group (parag. 0006-0013 and 0017 discloses terminal obtains PEI information where the PEI information is used to determine and indicate first content).
With respect to claim 16:
LI discloses the network device of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to: determine a first time domain resource occupied by transmitting the first PEI; and send the first PEI to the terminal on the first time domain resource; wherein the processor is configured to determine the first time domain resource based on time domain resources occupied by the first PO group and a positional relationship between time domain resources occupied by PO groups and time domain resources occupied by transmitting PEIs (parag. 0064 and 0079).
With respect to claim 20:
LI discloses the network device of claim 15, wherein the first PO group comprises one or more Pos (parag. 0048-0049).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 17 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
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/AJIBOLA A AKINYEMI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2649
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