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 .
This office action is in response to Applicant’s preliminary amendments filed on 02/08/2024 and 09/15/2025.
Claims 10-14 are currently pending.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 10-14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by MolavianJazi et al. (US 2022/0210844 A1; hereafter MOZI).
With respect to claim 10, MOZI discloses a terminal (116 in FIG. 1; 116 in FIG. 3) comprising:
a receiver (310, 325 in FIG. 3) that receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission to at least one of a serving cell and a different cell than the serving cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]); and
a processor (340 in FIG. 3) that, when the PRACH transmission is performed based on the PDCCH, controls the PRACH transmission based on power information related to a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a given cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]),
wherein the processor determines a PRACH configuration applied to the PRACH transmission, based on a cell that receives an SSB quasi-co-located (QCLed) with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) QCLed with a demodulation reference signal of the PDCCH (1020, 1030 in FIG. 10; paragraphs [0131], [0132], [0212]).
With respect to claim 10, MOZI further discloses the terminal according to claim 10, wherein the different cell than the serving cell is configured by a physical cell ID that is different from a physical cell ID of the serving cell (paragraph [0134] and [0135]).
With respect to claim 12, MOZI discloses a radio communication method for a terminal (116 in FIG. 1; 116 in FIG. 3), comprising:
receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission to at least one of a serving cell and a different cell than the serving cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]);
when the PRACH transmission is performed based on the PDCCH, controlling the PRACH transmission based on power information related to a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a given cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]); and
determining a PRACH configuration applied to the PRACH transmission, based on a cell that receives an SSB quasi-co-located (QCLed) with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) QCLed with a demodulation reference signal of the PDCCH (1020, 1030 in FIG. 10; paragraphs [0131], [0132], [0212]).
With respect to claim 13, MOZI discloses a base station (102, 103 in FIG. 1; 102 in FIG. 2) comprising:
a transmitter (210b, 210n, 215 in FIG. 2) that transmits a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission to at least one of a serving cell and a different cell than the serving cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]); and
a processor (225 in FIG. 2) that, when the PRACH transmission is performed based on the PDCCH, controls the PRACH transmission based on power information related to a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a given cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]),
wherein the processor (225 in FIG. 2) notifies a PRACH configuration applied to the PRACH transmission, based on a cell that transmits an SSB quasi-co-located (QCLed) with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) QCLed with a demodulation reference signal of the PDCCH (1020, 1030 in FIG. 10; paragraphs [0131], [0132], [0212]).
With respect to claim 14, MOZI discloses a system comprising a terminal (116 in FIG. 1; 116 in FIG. 3) and a base station (102, 103 in FIG. 1; 102 in FIG. 2), wherein
the terminal (116 in FIG. 1; 116 in FIG. 3) comprises:
a receiver (310, 325 in FIG. 3) that receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission to at least one of a serving cell and a different cell than the serving cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]); and
a processor (340 in FIG. 3) that, when the PRACH transmission is performed based on the PDCCH, controls the PRACH transmission based on power information related to a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a given cell (PRACH#1, PRACH#2, SSB detection in FIG. 6; paragraph [0087]),
wherein the processor (340 in FIG. 3) determines a PRACH configuration applied to the PRACH transmission, based on a cell that receives an SSB quasi-co-located (QCLed) with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) QCLed with a demodulation reference signal of the PDCCH (1020, 1030 in FIG. 10; paragraphs [0131], [0132], [0212]), and
the base station (102, 103 in FIG. 1; 102 in FIG. 2) comprises:
a transmitter (210b, 210n, 215 in FIG. 2) that transmits the PDCCH.
Conclusion
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/BRIAN T O CONNOR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2465 January 24, 2026
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