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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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.
Claims 21 and 22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Khan Beigi et al. (Pub. No.: US 2023/0403058; hereinafter Khan).
Regarding claim 21, Khan discloses a method performed by a network node, the method comprising: sending, to a user equipment, UE, information that explicitly or implicitly indicates, for one or more CSI Reference Signal, CSI-RS, ports in one or more CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set (see para. 0080, 0097, The WTRU 302 may receive first configuration information for CSI reporting…The configuration information may include, for instance, one or more CSI-RS resource sets…and each CSI-RS resource set may include one or more CSI-RS resources,… A WTRU may be configured with one or more of the following in a CSI-RS Resource: a CSI-RS resource mapping to define the number of CSI-RS ports): (a) multiple Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, states associated to each of the one or more CSI-RS resources (see para. 0080, each CSI-RS resource set may include one or more CSI-RS resources …para. 0097, A WTRU may be configured with one or more of the following in a CSI-RS Resource: …the reference to the TCI-State, para. 0087, one or more TCI states associated to the one or more CSI-RS resources), (b) a single TCI state for each of multiple CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set, wherein the multiple CSI-RS resources are fully overlapping in time and frequency and each of the multiple CSI-RS resources is associated to a different TCI state; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b).
Regarding claim 22, Khan discloses a network node comprising processing circuitry (see Fig. 1A, base station 114a/11b includes at least a processor for processing) configured to cause the network node to: send, to a user equipment, UE, information that explicitly or implicitly indicates, for one or more CSI Reference Signal, CSI-RS, ports in one or more CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set (see para. 0080, 0097, The WTRU 302 may receive first configuration information for CSI reporting…The configuration information may include, for instance, one or more CSI-RS resource sets…and each CSI-RS resource set may include one or more CSI-RS resources,… A WTRU may be configured with one or more of the following in a CSI-RS Resource: a CSI-RS resource mapping to define the number of CSI-RS ports): (a) multiple Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, states associated to each of the one or more CSI-RS resources (see para. 0080, each CSI-RS resource set may include one or more CSI-RS resources …para. 0097, A WTRU may be configured with one or more of the following in a CSI-RS Resource: …the reference to the TCI-State, para. 0087, one or more TCI states associated to the one or more CSI-RS resources), (b) a single TCI state for each of multiple CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set, wherein the multiple CSI-RS resources are fully overlapping in time and frequency and each of the multiple CSI-RS resources is associated to a different TCI state; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b).
Allowable Subject Matter
The International Search Report and Written Opinion for International Patent Application No. PCT/IB2022/057898 has been considered and it does not disclose the claimed features as recited below.
The cited prior arts, taken alone or in combination, do not disclose the claimed features of “based on the information received from the network node, performing channel measurement based on the one or more CSI-RS ports by: (i) measuring each CSI-RS port that is in a CSI-RS resource that is associated to multiple TCI states using the multiple TCI states associated to the CSI-RS resource; and/or (ii) measuring each CSI-RS port that is in the multiple CSI-RS resources each associated to a different TCI state over the multiple CSI-RS resources using the respective TCI states associated to the multiple CSI-RS resources; determining a channel rank based on the channel measurement; computing a channel quality based on the determined rank and the channel measurement; and sending, to the network node, feedback comprising information that indicates the rank and the channel quality” as recited in claims 1 and 19 when considering each claim individually as a whole.
Claims 1 – 17 and 19 are allowed.
Conclusion
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/ANH NGOC M NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2473