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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Claim Status
1. This is in response to application filed on 4/4/2024 in which claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
2. 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 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 1-3, 11, 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Martin et al., (US 2026/0067863), (hereinafter, Martin).
Regarding claim 1 and 14, Martin discloses a method/ a non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment comprising at least one processor from a non-terrestrial radio network node, a paging modification information message comprising modified paging resource information indicative of at least one first paging resource, corresponding to at least one first paging occasion, usable by the user equipment during a paging delegation period implemented by the non-terrestrial radio network node (= WTRU may camp on NTN, receive an indication that a paging message is scheduled, the paging message may indicate for WTRU to respond to a paging message on a TN; see [0166]; the paging message may include an indication a preferred carrier frequency, see [0168] and an indication of uplink resource to use on the target cell when initiating paging response, see [0174, 0183 and 0187]),
wherein the user equipment is configured to receive, during a paging non-delegation period corresponding to the non-terrestrial radio network node, paging messages transmitted by the non-terrestrial radio network node via at least one second paging resource corresponding to at least one second paging occasion (= WTRU may be configured to monitor paging at multiple layers; each paging associated with a different configuration such as DRX cycles, paging occasions etc, see [0192]);
based on the modified paging resource information, receiving, by the user equipment during the paging delegation period, a paging indication via at least one of the at least one first paging occasion according to the at least one first paging resource (= WTRU may camp on NTN, receive an indication that a paging message is scheduled, the paging message may indicate for WTRU to respond to a paging message on a TN; see [0166]; the paging message may include an indication a preferred carrier frequency, see [0168] and an indication of uplink resource to use on the target cell when initiating paging response, see [0174, 0183 and 0187]); and
based on the paging indication, performing, by the user equipment, a network operation (= WTRU may perform a cell reselection/change to the determined frequency, see [0175 and 0166]).
Regarding claim 2, as mentioned in claim 1, Martin discloses that the method further comprising: determining, by the user equipment, that the paging indication is directed to the user equipment to result in a determined paging indication, wherein, responsive to the determined paging indication being determined to be directed to the user equipment, the performing of the network operation comprises transitioning to an active mode (= connected state, see [0166 and 0170]).
Regarding claim 3, as mentioned in claim 1, Martin discloses the method wherein the at least one first paging resource is a terrestrial paging resource corresponding to a terrestrial radio network node, and wherein the performing of the network operation comprises establishing a connection with the terrestrial radio network node (= paging message include an indication of a preferred target TN cells, frequency carrier frequency/ individual TN cell identities, see [0168-69]).
Regarding claim 11, as mentioned in claim 1, Martin discloses the method wherein the modified paging resource information comprises at least one paging delegation time indication indicative of the paging delegation period (= paging message may include a timing relationship between the NTN cell and TN cell, see [0171]).
Allowable Subject Matter
3. a. Claims 4-10 and 15-20 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.
b. Claims 12-13 are allowable.
CONCLUSION
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/Kwasi Karikari/
Primary Examiner: Art Unit 2641.
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