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
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.
(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 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by US Patent Application Publication No. 20100284482 (Cudak et al).
Regarding claim 1, Cudak et al. discloses: “a method (FIG. 5A, FIG. 5B), comprising: generating, by a processor of an apparatus (FIG. 1: 111-115; FIG. 4: [0023]: “FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a BS 400, such as BSs 111-115, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. BS 400 includes a processor 402, such as one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs)”), one or more resource unit (RUs) ([0015]: “FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a mapping that spreads a distributed resource unit (DRU) across the subcarriers associated with multiple logical resource units (LRUs)”; [0017]: “address the need for a method and an apparatus for allocating frequency partitions to different coverage areas and maps logical localized resource units (LLRUs)”); and communicating, by the processor , wirelessly using the one or more RUs with a hybrid of power modes” ( [0040]: “a scheduler (FIG. 1: 17) included in the BS or in communication with the BS (FIG. 1: 111-115), then may schedule (528), with respect to each BS 111-115, the PRUs included in the primary FFR partition … for use by MSs with a good UL and/or DL with the BS, that is, that can communicate with the BS at a power level that will produce minimal interference in adjacent coverage areas, for example, MSs residing in close proximity to the BS”).
With respect to claim 11, Cudak et al. discloses: “an apparatus (FIG. 4: 400), comprising: a transceiver (FIG. 4: 408) configured to communicate wirelessly; and a processor (FIG. 4: 402) coupled to the transceiver (FIG. 4: 408) and configured to perform operations comprising: generating one or more resource unit (RUs) ([0015]: “FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a mapping that spreads a distributed resource unit (DRU) across the subcarriers associated with multiple logical resource units (LRUs)”; [0017]: “address the need for a method and an apparatus for allocating frequency partitions to different coverage areas and maps logical localized resource units (LLRUs)”); and communicating, via the transceiver (FIG. 4: 408), wirelessly using the one or more RUs with a hybrid of power modes” ([0040]: “a scheduler (FIG. 1: 17) included in the BS or in communication with the BS (FIG. 1: 111-115), then may schedule (528), with respect to each BS 111-115, the PRUs included in the primary FFR partition … for use by MSs with a good UL and/or DL with the BS, that is, that can communicate with the BS at a power level that will produce minimal interference in adjacent coverage areas, for example, MSs residing in close proximity to the BS”).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10 and 12-20 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.
Conclusion
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/Myron Wyche/ 29 July 2026
Primary Examiner AU2644
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