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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Preliminary Amendment
The present Office Action is based upon the original patent application filed on 2/16/2024 as modified by the preliminary amendment filed also on 2/16/2024.
Claims 1 and 2 are pending in the present application.
Claim Objections
Claims 1 and 2 are objected to because of the following informalities:
In Claim 1,
Line 2 states “RRC”. Suggest changing to --radio resource control (RRC)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 4 states “PUSCH”. Suggest changing to --Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 9 states “the same symbol allocation” which does not have proper antecedent basis. Suggest changing claim limitation to maintain proper antecedent basis.
Line 10 states “UL”. Suggest changing to --uplink (UL)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 11 states “SS/PBCH”. Suggest changing to --Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 13 states “the first symbol” which does not have proper antecedent basis. Suggest changing claim limitation to maintain proper antecedent basis.
In Claim 2,
Line 3 states “RRC”. Suggest changing to --radio resource control (RRC)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 5 states “PUSCH”. Suggest changing to --Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)-- to maintain clarity.
Lines 7-8 states “the same symbol allocation” which does not have proper antecedent basis. Suggest changing claim limitation to maintain proper antecedent basis.
Line 9 states “UL”. Suggest changing to --uplink (UL)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 9 states “SS/PBCH”. Suggest changing to --Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH)-- to maintain clarity.
Line 12 states “the first symbol” which does not have proper antecedent basis. Suggest changing claim limitation to maintain proper antecedent basis.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 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 1 and 2 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Taherzadeh Boroujeni et al. (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2022/0272725)
Referring to Claim 1, Taherzadeh Boroujeni et al. disclose a user equipment (UE) (par 43, UE) comprising: high-layer processing circuitry (pars 42 and 44, UE, receives RRC signaling) configured to acquire at least a first RRC parameter associated with an available slot-based counting (pars 42 and 43, RRC, grant/allocation, slot), and transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH in multiple slots (par 43, UE, transmits PUSCH, slots), wherein in a case that the available slot-based counting is configured, for both Type 1 and Type 2 PUSCH transmissions with a configured grant, when K > 1 (pars 41-43, PUSCH repetition types A and B, K is greater than 1), the transmission circuitry is configured to repeat a transport block across first K available slots applying the same symbol allocation in each slot where each of the available slots is a slot having an UL symbol or flexible symbol that is not SS/PBCH block symbol for the PUSCH (pars 41-43, PUSCH repetition, uplink, slots; pars 140-143, SS/PBCH), and consecutive UL symbols or flexible symbols that are not SS/PBCH block symbols, starting from the first symbol, equal to or larger than a number of symbols for the PUSCH (pars 41-43, PUSCH repetition, uplink, slots, start, n+1; pars 140-143, SS/PBCH).
Referring to Claim 2, Taherzadeh Boroujeni et al. disclose a method for a user equipment (par 43, UE), the method comprising: acquiring at least a first RRC parameter associated with an available slot- based counting (pars 42 and 43, RRC, grant/allocation, slot), and transmitting a PUSCH in multiple slots in multiple slots (par 43, UE, transmits PUSCH, slots), wherein repeating a transport block across first K available slots applying the same symbol allocation in each slot where each of the available slots is a slot having an UL symbol or flexible symbol that is not SS/PBCH block symbol for the PUSCH (pars 41-43, PUSCH repetition, uplink, slots, K; pars 140-143, SS/PBCH), and consecutive UL symbols or flexible symbols that are not SS/PBCH block symbols, starting from the first symbol, equal to or larger than a number of symbols for the PUSCH in a case that the available slot-based counting is configured for both Type 1 and Type 2 PUSCH transmissions with a configured grant when K > 1 (pars 41-43, PUSCH repetition, uplink, slots, start; PUSCH repetition types A and B, K is greater than 1; pars 140-143, SS/PBCH).
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to Applicant's disclosure. The following patents/patent application publications are cited to further show the state of the art with respect to PUSCH transmission: U.S. Pat. App. Pub. No. 2023/0015168 to Ye et al.
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/Suhail Khan/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2642