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 .
LG ELECTRONICS: "Discussion on resource allocation for power
saving", 3GPP DRAFT; R1-2103378, 3RD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP
PROJECT (3GPP), MOBILE COMPETENCE CENTRE ; 650, ROUTE DES LUCIOLES; F-06921 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS CEDEX; FRANCE vol. RAN
WG1, no. e-Meeting; 20210412 -20210420 7 April 2021 (2021-04-07), XP052178121,
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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, 12, 13, 14, and 15 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over LG in view of Lin US 20240015703.
Regarding claims 1, 14, and 15, LG teaches a method for performing, by a first device, wireless communication, (whole document, noting that the end of section 1 states that the document discusses the resource allocation schemes for UE power saving) the method comprising:
obtaining, by the first UE, information related to a resource pool; ("Agreements" in the box in section 1, also "Agreements" on page 7);
determining, by the first UE, a resource selection window for transmitting a medium access control, MAC, protocol data unit, PDU, in the resource pool; ("Agreements" in the box in section 1, also "Agreements" on page 7);
determining, by the first UE, at least one candidate slot within the resource selection window; ("Agreements" in the box in section 1, also "Agreements" on page 7);
wherein the partial sensing is determined to include periodic based partial sensing, PBPS, and contiguous partial sensing, CPS, based on a priority value related to the MAC PDU being greater than or equal to a first threshold value, (combination of "Proposal 1" on page 2 and "Proposal 8" on page 7, where the "first threshold value" of the claim corresponds to the higher of the priority thresholds of both proposals; note that the end of "Proposal 8" and the remaining text on page 2 confirms the cases of both PBPS and CPS being performed);
and wherein the partial sensing is determined to be one of PBPS or CPS, based on the priority value being smaller that the first threshold value; (same combination of proposals when the priority value is used as criteria);
and selecting at least one transmission resource for transmitting the MAC PDU among the at least one candidate resource. (implicit by the teachings of proposals 1 and 8).
LG is silent on triggering, by the first UE, pre-emption;
determining, by the first UE, partial sensing to perform for the at least one candidate slot, based on the triggering of the pre-emption;
performing, by the first UE, the determined partial sensing for the at least one candidate slot;
determining, by the first UE, at least one candidate resource based on the partial sensing;
Lin teaches triggering, by the first UE, pre-emption;
determining, by the first UE, partial sensing to perform for the at least one candidate slot, based on the triggering of the pre-emption;
performing, by the first UE, the determined partial sensing for the at least one candidate slot;
determining, by the first UE, at least one candidate resource based on the partial sensing (sensing slots of a sidelink resource pool within a time interval contiguously from a slot (m−31) to a slot (m−T.sub.3−T.sub.proc,0) to obtain sensing results as a part of a contiguous partial sensing, where the UE is triggered to determine the subset of resources in a slot (n) as the part of the re-evaluation and pre-emption checking procedure, [0034]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of LG by triggering, by the first UE, pre-emption; determining, by the first UE, partial sensing to perform for the at least one candidate slot, based on the triggering of the pre-emption; performing, by the first UE, the determined partial sensing for the at least one candidate slot; determining, by the first UE, at least one candidate resource based on the partial sensing, as shown by Lin. This modification would benefit the system by selecting an optimal slot (s) for transmitting the PDU.
Regarding claim 12, the at least one candidate resource is for performing resource reselection based on the pre-emption (Lin: [0034]).
Regarding claim 13, wherein the at least one
transmission resource includes a resource reselected based on the pre-emption (Lin: [0034]).
Claim(s) 2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of LG and Lin as applied to claim 1 above, and further in view of Aktas US 20220322290.
The combination is silent on a periodic transmission is enabled in the
resource pool.
Aktas teaches a periodic transmission is enabled in the
resource pool (In some aspects, overhearing functionality may be based on a UE capability, may be preconfigured, and/or may be dynamically activated or deactivated based at least in part on a cast type of the communications for which an overhearing UE is reporting, whether periodic transmissions are enabled for a resource pool [0122]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of the combination by a periodic transmission is enabled in the resource pool, as shown by Aktas. This modification would benefit the system by enabling periodic transmission.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-7 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.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to the independent claim(s) have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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