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emailed 7/23/2026 Alex Wang 202-408-4253. Willing to take claim 3? Alex.wang@finnegan.com
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, 7-10, 15, 16, 19-21, 23, 24 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Zhou US 20240314590 in view of Liu US 20250037135 and Dong CN 116547924.
Regarding claim 1, 7, 15, 16, 23, 24, Zhou teaches a method for terminating a proxy of wireless local area network (WLAN) sensing (abstract), applied to performed by a proxy access point (AP), and comprising:
determining sensing measurement identification information of a wireless local area network (WLAN) WLAN sensing measurement, wherein the sensing measurement identification information (fig. 2 S210, [0065]) comprises at least one of a sensing session identification and/or or a sensing measurement establishment identification (Further, the sensing measurement
setup request frame includes a subfield for indicating whether the sensing responder is allowed to initiate a sensing
measurement setup termination, [0121]); and
terminating by a proxy / responder of the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information ([0121]).
Although Zhou teaches terminating by a proxy / responder of the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information, the reference is silent on terminating a proxy of the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information.
Liu teaches the concept of a server terminating proxy relationships / authority ([0072]).
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 Zhou by terminating a proxy of the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information, as suggested by Liu. This modification would benefit the system by enabling the network to dynamically determine which devices are allowed to perform proxy functions.
The combination is silent on wherein determining the sensing measurement identification information of the WLAN
sensing measurement comprises at least one of:
receiving a first termination request sent by a station (STA), and obtaining sensing measurement identification information carried in the first termination request; or
determining, after sending a measurement report of WLAN sensing measurement, sensing measurement identification information of the WLAN sensing measurement.
Dong teaches determining the sensing measurement identification information of the WLAN sensing measurement comprises receiving a first termination request sent by a station (STA), and obtaining sensing measurement identification information carried in the first termination request (determining the first message frame, the first message frame comprises wireless local area network sensing measurement establishment identification information, the wireless local area network sensing measurement establishment identification
information is used for indicating to terminate the corresponding established wireless local area network sensing measurement, abstract).
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 determining the sensing measurement identification information of the WLAN sensing measurement comprises receiving a first termination request sent by a station (STA), and obtaining sensing measurement identification information carried in the first termination request, as shown by Dong. This modification would benefit the system by providing a proven, reliable method for determining the sensing measurement identification information of the WLAN sensing measurement.
Regarding claim 8, the STA comprises at least one of a first STA or a second STA;
the first STA comprises a sensing initiator that initiates the WLAN sensing measurement; and
the second STA comprises a sensing responder that participates in the WLAN sensing measurement ([0061]).
Regarding claim 9, receiving a first termination response sent by the proxy AP, and terminating the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information (Zhou: [0121]).
Regarding claim 10, receiving a third termination response sent by the proxy AP, and terminating the WLAN sensing measurement corresponding to the sensing measurement identification information (Zhou: [0121]).
Regarding claim 19, in the first termination request, a sensing measurement process corresponding to a sensing measurement setup ID carried in the measurement report or a sensing session requested to be terminated is identified (Dong: abstract).
Regarding claim 20, the sensing session comprises one or more sensing measurement processes (Zhou: [0121]).
Regarding claim 21, wherein, in a first termination response, a specific sensing measurement process or a sensing session to be terminated is identified (Zhou: abstract).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-6 and 17, 18, and 22 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 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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