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Last updated: April 19, 2026
Application No. 18/686,368

ANTENNA ADAPTATION ACCORDING TO CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Non-Final OA §103
Filed
Feb 23, 2024
Examiner
NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN
Art Unit
2415
Tech Center
2400 — Computer Networks
Assignee
Qualcomm Incorporated
OA Round
1 (Non-Final)
77%
Grant Probability
Favorable
1-2
OA Rounds
3y 6m
To Grant
99%
With Interview

Examiner Intelligence

Grants 77% — above average
77%
Career Allow Rate
703 granted / 911 resolved
+19.2% vs TC avg
Strong +24% interview lift
Without
With
+24.4%
Interview Lift
resolved cases with interview
Typical timeline
3y 6m
Avg Prosecution
33 currently pending
Career history
944
Total Applications
across all art units

Statute-Specific Performance

§101
6.1%
-33.9% vs TC avg
§103
51.5%
+11.5% vs TC avg
§102
19.8%
-20.2% vs TC avg
§112
14.0%
-26.0% vs TC avg
Black line = Tech Center average estimate • Based on career data from 911 resolved cases

Office Action

§103
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. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 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 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 -14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Faxer US 20240056147 in view of Hao US 20200358503 1. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), receiving first control signaling indicating a channel state information ( Faxer : FIG. 18 depicts a method 1000 by a wireless device 110) comprising: [[ a memory coupled with the processor ]] receiving first control signaling indicating a channel state information reporting configuration for a set of channel state information reference signal resources that correspond to a first number of antenna ports for the set of channel state information reference signal resources ( Faxer : [0182 , 0188 ] fig. 18, step 1002 with the wireless device 110 obtaining an overlapping CSI-RS resource definition comprising an M port CSI-RS resource definition and an N port CSI-RS resource definition) ; receiving second control signaling indicating an antenna port configuration for a second number of antenna ports that is less than the first number of antenna ports ( Faxer : [0182 , 0188 ] obtaining an overlapping N-port CSI-RS resource definition that overlaps with and/or is included in an M-port CSI-RS resource definition. A number N of ports associated with the overlapping N-port CSI-RS resource definition is less than a number M of ports associated with the M-port CSI-RS resource definition ) ; and transmitting feedback information based at least in part on the first control signaling and the second control signaling ( Faxer : [018 3 ] fig. 18, At step 1004, the wireless device 110 calculates CSI based on the overlapping CSI-RS definition. The wireless device 110 calculates the CSI be according to any of the first, second, and/or third group of embodiments described above. At step 1006, the wireless device 110 reports the CSI to a network node 160 ) . Faxer merely discloses “ memory coupled with the processor ” Hao further teaches the term memory coupled with the processor (Ha o : [ 0010 ] o ne processor coupled with a memory ) . Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Faxer ’s invention in order to perform channel measurements, and/or based on CSI-RS ports the BS schedules the UE to perform interference measurements , as taught by Hao . 2 . The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining the second number of antenna ports relative to a threshold, wherein transmitting the feedback information is further based at least in part on comparing the second number of antenna ports relative to the threshold ( Faxer : [0093, 0201, 0219] wireless device capability signaling where the wireless device indicates to the network the maximum number of antenna ports for codebook calculations used for CSI reportin g ; Ha o : [0077, 0084]) . 3 . The method of claim 2, wherein determining the second number of antenna ports relative to the threshold comprises: determining that the second number of antenna ports is greater than or equal to the threshold, the threshold comprising a maximum number of antenna ports in a code division multiplexing group associated with the set of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein transmitting the feedback information is further based at least in part on determining that the second number of antenna ports is greater than or equal to the threshold ( Faxer : [ 0088-0091 ] Then the 8 ports may be selected from 2 of 8 CDM groups ; Hao : [0089-0091] ) . 4 . The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining that the second number of antenna ports is a multiple of a maximum number of antenna ports in a code division multiplexing group associated with the set of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein transmitting the feedback information is further based at least in part on determining that the second number of antenna ports is the multiple of the maximum number of antenna ports in the code division multiplexing group associated with the set of channel state information reference signal resources ( Faxer : [0088-0091] selected from 2 of 8 CDM groups ; Hao : [0089-0091]) . 5 . The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining a subset of channel state information reference signal resources from the set of channel state information reference signal resources based at least in part on an order of code division multiplexing group indices, wherein the subset of channel state information reference signal resources corresponds to the second number of antenna ports that is less than the first number of antenna ports; and performing a channel state information measurement based at least in part on the subset of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein transmitting the feedback information is further based at least in part on the channel state information measurement ( Faxer : [0088-0091] N=8 and M=32, and CDM4 was configured for the 32 ports ; Hao : [0089-0091]) . 6 . The method of claim 5, wherein determining the subset of channel state information reference signal resources is based at least in part on an increasing order of the code division multiplexing group indices, and the increasing order begins with a lowest code division multiplexing group index and ends with a highest code division multiplexing group index ( Faxer : [0088-0091] first 4 CDM groups are on one polarization while antenna ports in the last 4 CDM groups are on a different polarization ; Hao : [0089-0091]) . 7 . The method of claim 5, wherein determining the subset of channel state information reference signal resources is based at least in part on a decreasing order of the code division multiplexing group indices, and the decreasing order begins with a highest code division multiplexing group index and ends with a lowest code division multiplexing group index ( Faxer : [ 0083, 0088-0091 ] port selection on particular CDM group ) . 8 . The method of claim 5, further comprising: receiving third control signaling indicating a code division multiplexing group configuration, the code division multiplexing group configuration indicating the order of code division multiplexing group indices, the third control signaling comprising a radio resource control message, wherein determining the subset of channel state information reference signal resources from the set of channel state information reference signal resources is further based at least in part on receiving the code division multiplexing group configuration ( Faxer : [0083, 0088-0091] port ordering (ordering N-port and M-port) when the bitmaps for indicated the selected ports) . 9 . The method of claim 5, further comprising: determining an order of channel state information reference signal antenna port indices associated with the subset of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein the order of channel state information reference signal antenna port indices begins with a lowest channel state information reference signal port index in a code division multiplexing group associated with the subset of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein performing the channel state information measurement is further based at least in part on determining the order of channel state information reference signal antenna port indices associated with the subset of channel state information reference signal resources ( Faxer : [0088-0091] mapping between the CSI-RS resources and the ports ; Hao : fig. 10 ) . 10 . The method of claim 5, further comprising: determining a relationship between a set of channel state information reference signal antenna ports and the subset of channel state information reference signal resources, wherein performing the channel state information measurement is further based at least in part on determining the relationship between the set of channel state information reference signal antenna ports and the subset of channel state information reference signal resources ( Hao : [0086] DCI) . Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Faxer ’s invention in order to the provide the CSI report trigger to be configured via a DCI, as taught by Hao . 11 . The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving third control signaling indicating at least one subset of antenna ports of a set of antenna ports associated with one or more subsets of channel state information reference signal resources of the set of channel state information reference signal resources, the third control signaling comprising a medium access control-control element, or a downlink control information, or both; and performing a channel state information measurement based at least in part on the one or more subsets of channel state information reference signal resources of the set of channel state information reference signal resources and the at least one subset of antenna ports of the set of antenna ports ( Hao : [0086] DCI ) . Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Faxer ’s invention in order to the provide the CSI report trigger to be configured via a DCI, as taught by Hao . 12 . The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving third control signaling indicating a plurality of subset of antenna ports of a set of antenna ports associated with one or more subsets of channel state information reference signal resources of the set of channel state information reference signal resources, the third control signaling comprising a radio resource control message; receiving fourth control signaling indicating a first selection of one or more subsets of antenna ports of the plurality of subset of antenna ports, the fourth control signaling comprising a first medium access control-control element; and receiving fifth control signaling indicating a second selection of at least one subset of antenna ports of the one or more subsets of antenna ports of the plurality of subset of antenna ports, the fifth control signaling comprising a second medium access control-control element, wherein transmitting the feedback information is further based at least in part on the second selection of at least one subset of antenna ports of the one or more subsets of antenna ports of the plurality of subset of antenna ports ( Faxer : [0012 , 0083 ] port sub-selection , Hao : fig. 11-12, unit 1200 ) . 13 . The method of claim 1, wherein one or both of the first control signaling and the second control signaling comprises radio resource control message, a medium access control-control element, or a downlink control information, or a combination thereof ( Faxer : [0016, 0019] RRC , Hao : [0086] DCI ) . 14 . The method of claim 1, wherein the second number of antenna ports correspond to channel state information reference signal transmissions ( Faxer : [0047] N-port CSI , Hao : [0086] ) . Regarding claims 15 - 30, the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1- 14 , where the difference used is a n “ apparatus ” with a processor and a memory ( Hao : a processor coupled with a memory [0 010 ]) and the wordings of the claims were interchanged within the claim itself or some of the claims were presented as a combination of two or more previously presented limitations. This change does not affect the limitation of the above treated claims. Adding these phrases to the claims arid interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore , these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above. Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to Sulaiman Nooristany whose telephone number is (571) 270-1929. The examiner can normally be reached on M-F from 9 to 5. If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner's supervisor, Jeffrey Rutkowski, can be reached on (571) 270-1215. The fax phone number for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is 571-273-8300. Information regarding the status of an application may be obtained from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. Status information for published applications may be obtained from either Private PAIR or Public PAIR. Status information for unpublished applications is available through Private PAIR only. Should you have questions on access to the Private PAIR system, contact the Electronic Business Center (EBC) at 866-217-9197 (toll-free). /SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415
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Prosecution Timeline

Feb 23, 2024
Application Filed
Mar 20, 2026
Non-Final Rejection — §103 (current)

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