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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 § 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 1-19 and 29 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 1, it recites “aggregating the at least one neighbour CQI measurement report into a reference CQI measurement report set.” The limitation can be interpreted as only one neighbor CQI measurement report is being aggregated. If just one CQI measurement report, then it is not aggregating. So, the Examiner suggests to amend claim 1 as follow:
A method (400) for verifying a Channel Quality Indicator, CQI, measurement performed by a first wireless device in a communication network, wherein the communication network comprises a Radio Access Network, RAN, the method, performed by a verification node, comprising:
obtaining a first CQI measurement report comprising a first CQI measurement value of a measurement performed by the first wireless device for a first downlink channel between a first RAN node and the first wireless device (420);
identifying at least [[one]] two neighbour wireless [[device]] devices to the first wireless device (430);
obtaining at least [[one]] two neighbour CQI measurement [[report]] reports from the at least [[one]] two neighbour wireless [[device]] devices (440);
aggregating the at least [[one]] two neighbour CQI measurement [[report]] reports into a reference CQI measurement report set (450); and
verifying the first CQI measurement value using the reference CQI measurement report set (460).
Claims 2-19 do not cure the deficiency.
Claims 29 is/are rejected for the same reason as stated above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Scope of claims 1-19 and 29 is/are allowed.
Each of independent claims, claim 1 and claim 29, contains following underlined features, which when combined with other features in the claims, conventional techniques of record in the art failed to anticipate or render obviousness at the time when the invention was made:
Claim 1. A method for verifying a Channel Quality Indicator, CQI, measurement performed by a first wireless device in a communication network, wherein the communication network comprises a Radio Access Network, RAN, the method, performed by a verification node, comprising:
obtaining a first CQI measurement report comprising a first CQI measurement value of a measurement performed by the first wireless device for a first downlink channel between a first RAN node and the first wireless device;
identifying at least one neighbour wireless device to the first wireless device;
obtaining at least one neighbour CQI measurement report from the at least one neighbour wireless device;
aggregating the at least one neighbour CQI measurement report into a reference CQI measurement report set; and
verifying the first CQI measurement value using the reference CQI measurement report set.
Claim(s) 29 is/are allowed for the same reason as stated above.
Prior art by Ganesan (US 20240155596), [Fig.4-7 and 0060, 0067-0069], discloses some of the claim limitations in claim 1.
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Ganesan discloses a primary UE collects CQI measurement reports performed by a group of neighbor UEs, then the primary UE prepares an aggregated CQI measurement report, from the collected CQI measurement reports. The aggregated CQI measurement report can be an average CQI report or differential CQI report. The primary UE compares the aggregated CQI report to a threshold to decide whether to report the aggregated CQI report. Such disclosure from Ganesan discloses claimed limitations identifying at least one neighbour wireless device to the first wireless device; obtaining at least one neighbour CQI measurement report from the at least one neighbour wireless device; aggregating the at least one neighbour CQI measurement report.
However, Ganesan fails to disclosed the underlined limitations stated above.
Conclusion
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/ZHIREN QIN/Examiner, Art Unit 2411
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