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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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
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.
Claim(s) 1-3, 12-14, 23, 34 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a2) as being anticipated by Urie et al. (Pub No. 20230110387).
- With respect to claims 1, 12, 23 and 34, Urie teaches a radio network control method, comprising: transmitting, by a near real-time radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (Near-RT RIC), a first message to a network node (e.g. Fig. 7-9 discloses Near-RT RIC transmit to controlled network node E2 node a subscription procedure and/or E2 control message; par. 51-53 block 500, 505 in Fig. 19), wherein the first message comprises first related information of K actions corresponding to a target service (e.g. e.g. par. 48 discloses “O-RAN also defines a new E2 interface between RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) and radio access network (RAN). This interface may support report, policy, insert, and control services.”; 51-53 discloses subscription with event triggers one or more E2 policies or control info referring to RAN UE groups/lists, which can involve multiple/per-UE actions/control. Target service aligns with E2 services line Policy, Insert or Control), and the network node is a network node controlled by the Near-RT RIC (e.g. the network show in Fig. 2); and receiving, by the Near-RT RIC, a second message transmitted by the network node, wherein the second message is control-related information of the K actions, and K is greater than or equal to 1 (e.g. step 510 in fig. 19 receiving incoming message from the network node in response to the subscription/control and the services Policy, Insert or Control as K action >1).
- With respect to claims 2, 13, Urie teaches wherein the target service is an insert service, and the first message is a RAN intelligent controller (RIC) subscription request message used for subscribing to the insert service (e.g. block 500 in Fig. 19 and par. 70 discloses subscription request message); and the first related information comprises: an action definition and a trigger event of the action, wherein the action definition indicates parameter information of an insert indication message corresponding to the K actions (e.g. Fig. 7-8 shows the Insert service as par. 50-51).
- With respect to claims 3, 14, Urie teaches wherein the action definition comprises at least one of the following information: the quantity of actions indicated by the insert indication message; an identifier of an insert indication action; a list of RAN parameters for the insert indication action; the quantity of RAN parameters for the insert indication action; an identifier of the RAN parameter (see par. 56 discloses “the E2 policy service may be used to modify RAN behavior so that a parametric defined RAN user equipment (UE) group may be subjected to a specific variation to a baseline OAM defined behavior”).
- With respect to claims 4, 6, 15, 17, Urie teaches the RCI control request (see par. 50 and Fig. 7). Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filling date to implement the step of request control action in Urie’s invention into Han’s invention for fast controlling user in radio access network.
- With respect to claims 5. 7, 16, 18, Urie teaches wherein the insert indication message comprises: a first information element and a second information element; the first information element comprises: an identifier of a terminal corresponding to the network node and insert style types of the K actions; and the second information element comprises at least one of the following: the quantity of actions indicated by the insert indication message; an identifier of an insert indication action; a list of RAN parameters as requested; the quantity of RAN parameters as requested; an identifier of the RAN parameter; a value type of the RAN parameter (e.g. par. 58-61 discloses RAN parameters).
- With respect to claims 8, 19, Urie teaches wherein the second message is an RIC control acknowledge message corresponding to the control request message; and the RIC control acknowledge message comprises an execution result of each of the K actions by the network node (e.g. par. 50 discloses RIC control acknowledgment to the near-rt RIC; Fig. 7-8).
- With respect to claim 9, Urie teaches wherein the RIC control acknowledge message comprises at least one of the following: the quantity of control action outcomes; an identifier of a control action; a list of RAN parameters; the quantity of RAN parameters; an identifier of the RAN parameter; a value type of the RAN parameter (see par. 58-61 disclose RAN parameters).
- With respect to claim 10, Urie teaches wherein the list of RAN parameters carries a received timestamp of a target action, in a case where the network node accepts to execute the target action (e.g. par. 50 discloses the E2 node star a wait timer which consider as timestamp).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See PTO-892.
. Examiner's Note: Examiner has cited particular paragraphs or columns and line numbers in the references applied to the claims above for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant in preparing responses, to fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
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