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 Rejections – 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(B) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 30 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Re claim 30, the original specification fails to provide clear support for what a computer program product has been positively disclosed as.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-8, 10, 12-14, 18, 21, 23 and 26-29 are allowable.
The following is an examiner's statement for reasons for allowance.
Claim 1 is allowable over the prior art of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fail to particularly teach or fairly suggest transmitting a plurality of uplink signals repeatedly after receiving a random access response message, relaying first and second uplink signals in different preset modes. determining a type of the terminal based on a reception situation of the uplink signals in response to receiving the plurality of uplink signals transmitted by the terminal repeatedly according to the random access response message.
Claim 14 is allowable over the prior art of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fail to particularly teach or fairly suggest relaying the plurality of uplink signals to the network device according to the second configuration information in response to receiving a plurality of uplink signals transmitted by the terminal repeatedly according to a random access response message, wherein uplink signals are relayed in different preset modes, and determining a type of the terminal according to a reception situation of the uplink signals.
Claim 21 is allowable over the prior art of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fail to particularly teach or fairly suggest transmitting a plurality of uplink signals repeatedly to network device according to first configuration information issued by a network device in response to receiving a random access response message from the network device, determining a type of the terminal based on a reception situation of the uplink signals; or, transmitting a plurality of uplink signals repeatedly to the signal conditioning apparatus according to the first configuration information, wherein the plurality of uplink signals are relayed by the signal conditioning apparatus to the network device to determine the type of the terminal according to a reception situation of the uplink signals, and the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal are relayed by the signal conditioning apparatus in different preset modes.
Conclusion
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/HONG S CHO/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467