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 .
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 28 May 2024 and 02 July 2025 is being considered by the examiner.
Claims 1-17 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1, 7, 9 and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 being unpatentable over (WO 2021/092441 A1) in view of (WO 2021/060937 A1).
Regarding claims 1, 7, 9 and 13, (WO 2021/092441 A1) discloses a method performed by an application function, AF, comprising:
sending, to a network exposure function, NEF, a request for performing an operation related to edge application server (EAS), deployment information for an application, wherein the request is for creating, or updating, or deleting EAS deployment information (As shown in figure 9, the AF may send a request for creating, updating or deleting a parameter associated with the network (e.g., Nnef_ParameterProvision Create/Update/Delete request), for example, to a NEF. As shown in FIG. 9, the AF may provide the DNAI and/or the application ID that are associated with the application that is migrated, for example, with the request. The DNAI and/or the application ID may be sent t the WTRU, which may determine the application that is migrated based on the DNAI and/or the application ID. As shown in FIG. 9, the UDM may send an updated (e.g., Nudr_DM_Update) to the UDR, and the UDR may respond to the updated; and
receiving, from the NEF, a response to the request (As shown in FIG. 9, the UDM may send a response for crating, updating or deleting a parameter associated with the network (e.g., Nnef_ParameterProvision_Creat/Updated/Delete response) to the NEF. As shown in FIG. 9, the NEF may send (e.g., forward) the response to the AF. As shown in FIG. 9, the UDM may send a notification (e.g., Nudm_SDM_Notification Notify) to the NF, for example, based on the subscription. See para.[0107], [0117].
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Claims 1, 7, 9 and 13 differ from (WO 2021/092441 A1) in that: the request is for
creating, or updating, or deleting EAS deployment information, while (WO 2021/092441 A1) discloses a request is for creating, or updating, or deleting EAS deployment information.
(WO2021/060937 A1) in the same field of invention, teaches (“At step 710, the ECS (116) upon receiving the update request checks if the source EES (114A) is authorized to update the EAS information profile or not.”
It would have been obvious to those having ordinary skills in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to request for updating EAS deployment information profile.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 8, 10 and 14 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.
Claims 3-6 and 11-17 are allowed over prior art made of record.
Conclusion
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BRENDA H. PHAM
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2412
/BRENDA H PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2412
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