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 § 102
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 7, 10, 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Li WO 2014000653.
Regarding claims 1, 7, 10, 14, Li teaches a session control device comprising:
an identification unit configured to identify a specific UE where generation of downlink data is predicted prior to completion of control plane (CP) path generation (see paragraph: In the above solution, before the control plane transmission channel is established between the PGW and the MME, the method further includes: the MME instructing the UE and/or the PGW to use the control plane to carry the data transmission mode of the IP data to the UE); and
a control unit configured to generate specific information with regard to the specific UE, so as to avoid additional performing of specific signaling performed between a user plane (UP) and the CP for downlink data transmission, and configure the specific information for a network function (NF) of the UP ( 5209, if the UE and the application layer have no data interaction for a period of time, the UE enters an idle state; specifically, the system releases the wireless connection (RC connection resource) allocated to the UE, the base station, and the core network connection (see paragraph: 5209, for the E-UTRAN The control plane resource S1 -AP resource between the eNodeB and the MME, the user plane resource S1-U resource between the eNodeB and the SGW, and the MME mark the UE as an idle state, and the UE itself is also marked as an idle state).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-6, 8, 9, 11-13, and 15 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.
Conclusion
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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