DETAILED ACTION
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 .
In response to the previous office action, Applicant has amended claims 1, 2, 5, 7, and 14-20. Claims 1-20 have been examined.
Claim Interpretation
In light of Applicant’s arguments, no claim limitations are being construed under 35 U.S.C. 112(f).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
Claims 4-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) because the specification, while being enabling for a system comprising “a second XR device; a user equipment (UE); a base station (BS); a wireless access point (AP); a wireless station (STA); a Bluetooth-enabled device; a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller; one or more intermediary radio access network (RAN) elements; or one or more cloud network elements,” does not reasonably provide enablement for all these elements being in a single apparatus, as recited in claim 4. The specification does not enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make the invention commensurate in scope with these claims.
Claims 5-7 are dependent upon base claim 4 and wholly incorporate its limitations, rendering them as likewise lacking enablement.
For purposes of the prior art search, claims 4-7 are being treated as standing or falling with base claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-3 and 8-20 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: No art was found that discloses a process that would:
“obtain operation information for a wireless communications environment;
“generate, based on the operation information, a first notification for a first extended reality (XR) device operating within the wireless communications environment, wherein the first notification indicates one or more user actions to adjust wireless connectivity of the first XR device within the wireless communications environment; and
“communicate transmit the first notification,” as recited in claims 1, 19, and 20.
Claims 2, 3, and 8-18 are allowable based upon their dependence on base claim 1.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 19 June 2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive with respect to the rejections under 35 U.S.C. 112(a). Applicant relies on paragraph 184 of the Specification, which refers to figures 1, 3, and 12. The passage describes a set of apparatuses in a system, remote from one another, that are in communication. One skilled the art would ascertain from the text that the “apparatus,” as described therein, is “an apparatus, for example, such as UE 104 of FIGS. 1 and 3.” Further described are several elements, i.e. “a disaggregated base station discussed with respect to FIG. 2, an XR Device, a wireless AP, a wireless STA, a Bluetooth-enabled device, a WLAN controller, one or more intermediary RAN elements, or one or more cloud network elements." An implementation in which all of these components were in a single apparatus would require undue experimentation, as there is no such implementation in the prior art or working examples. Although the art is highly predictable, a person of ordinary skill (a person holding a B.S. in electrical engineering with two years of experience) would not be able to implement the claimed invention in a single apparatus in light of Applicant’s disclosure.
The rejection is therefore proper.
Conclusion
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/MATTHEW E HENEGHAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992
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