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 .
1. Claims 6-12 are pending. Claims 1-5 are cancelled.
Priority
2. Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
3. The Information Disclosure Statements dated 02/13/2024 and 02/14/2025 are acknowledged by the Examiner.
Specification
4. The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
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.
5. Claim(s) 6-7 and 9-12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being disclosed by Park et al, US 2023/0105294 hereafter Park.
As for claim 6, Park discloses:
A terminal (Park, Fig. 16, [0288]-[0290], the terminal may include a processor 1601, a transceiver 1602, and a memory 1603) comprising:
a transmitter that transmits capability information of the terminal, the capability information relating to support of simultaneous transmission of multiple uplink (UL) transmissions with different priorities (Park, [0179]-[0178], Transmit/report the UE capability for simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH transmission having different priorities); and
a processor that, when the multiple UL transmissions overlap in a time domain (Park, [0178]-[0179], a UL control channel and a data channel having different priorities from each other overlap in one cell in terms of time resources), controls, based on a given condition, to perform simultaneous transmission (Park, [0269] In operation 1407, the terminal may determine one UL control channel and one UL data channel to be transmitted, based on a result of determining whether to perform the simultaneous transmission and a result of the identifying) without performing multiplexing of the multiple UL transmissions (Park, [0274], the terminal may transmit the UL control channel and the UL data channel without multiplexing. [0225], [0227], the terminal may simultaneously transmit the PUCCH and the PUSCH without multiplexing.)
As for claim 7, Park discloses the given condition is whether simultaneous transmission of the multiple UL transmissions is applied or not (Park, [0269] In operation 1407, the terminal may determine one UL control channel and one UL data channel to be transmitted, based on a result of determining whether to perform the simultaneous transmission and a result of the identifying).
As for claim 9, Park discloses the multiple UL transmissions are a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission (Park, [0179]-[0178], the UE capability for simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH transmission in one cell).
As for claim 10, this claim is analyzed and rejected for the same reasons as claim 6 because the corresponding the apparatus of claim 6 can be used to practice the method of claim 10.
As for claim 11, Park discloses:
A base station (Park, Fig. 17, [0297], the base station may include a processor 1701, a transceiver 1702, and a memory 1703 )comprising:
a receiver that receives capability information of a terminal, the capability information relating to support of simultaneous transmission of multiple uplink (UL) transmissions with different priorities (Park, [0179]-[0178], Receive from the UE the capability information for simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH transmission having different priorities);; and
a processor that, when the multiple UL transmissions overlap in a time domain (Park, [0178]-[0179], a UL control channel and a data channel having different priorities from each other overlap in one cell in terms of time resources), controls, based on a given condition, reception processing for the multiple UL transmissions that are simultaneously transmitted, (Park, [0269], one UL control channel and one UL data channel to be received/transmitted, based on a result of determining whether to perform the simultaneous transmission and a result of the identifying) without performing multiplexing of the multiple UL transmission (Park, [0274], [0287], the base station receives, from the terminal, the UL control channel and the UL data channel without multiplexing. [0225], [0227], the terminal may simultaneously transmit the PUCCH and the PUSCH without multiplexing.)
As for claim 12, this claim is analyzed and rejected for the same reasons as claims 6 and 11 because the corresponding the apparatuses of claims 6 and 11 can be used to practice the system of claim 12.
Allowable Subject Matter
6. Claim 8 is 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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JENEE HOLLAND
Examiner
Art Unit 2469
/JENEE HOLLAND/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2469