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 .
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Status of Claims
The instant Office action responds to the filing of April 25, 2025.
Claims 1-20 are pending.Claims 1-20 are rejected.
Information Disclosure Statement
Applicant is respectfully reminded of the duty under 37 C.F.R. 1.56 to disclose all pertinent information and material pertaining to the patentability of the instant invention, by submitting in a timely manner PTO-1449, Information Disclosure Statement (IDS), with the filing of an application or thereafter.
For example, any art cited, or report issued, in the search or examination of the PCT on which priority is based would seem to be pertinent and material.
Specification
The lengthy specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors. Cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which the applicant(s) may become aware.
The abstract is objected to for not being descriptive as it could be. It could mention a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in addition to systems and methods.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claims 1, 8, and 15, the relation between the plural recitations of “an R1 interface” is unclear.
Regarding claims 1-4, 6, 8-13, and 15-20, the meaning of the acronym “O-RAN” is unclear. This could be overcome by spelling-out each acronym the first time used in each independent claim.
Regarding claims 1, 5, 8, and 15, the relation between “create a job,” “job creating,” and “a job” is unclear.
Regarding claims 3, 4, and 6, “the at least one processor” and “the apparatus” lack antecedent basis.
Regarding claim 5, the meaning of “the apparatus is configured to create a job for writing the configuration is further configured to” is unclear.
Other Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to the instant disclosure. For example, WO 2024076355 discloses an application protocol for an R1 interface in a non-real-time radio access network intelligence controller (NRT-RIC), and more particularly to procedures of an application protocol to access different services offered by an NRT-RIC platform to an rApp over an R1 interface (¶ 0002).
Conclusion
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/LANCE LEONARD BARRY/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2457
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