CTNF 18/722,082 CTNF 99381 DETAILED ACTION 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. The preliminary amendment filed 6/20/2024 was received. PRIOR ART The following references are prior art: 1. 17/989,727 (“Kim”) is prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) since it published as US 2023/0156702 A1, names another inventor (Jae Heung KIM), and was effectively filed Nov. 18, 2021 (see OA.APPENDIX) before Dec. 21, 2021 the effective filing date of the claimed invention. CLAIM REJECTIONS — 35 U.S.C. 102 07-06 AIA 15-10-15 In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status. 07-07 AIA 07-07-aia 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: 35 U.S.C. 102 Conditions for patentability; novelty. (a) NOVELTY; PRIOR ART.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless— 07-12-aia AIA (2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. CLAIMS 1-11 & 16-24 07-15-03-aia AIA Claim s 1-11 and 16-24 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kim for the reasons given below . Claim 1 With respect to claim 1, Kim disclosed: A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory ([0054]-[0056], [[FIG. 2] processor 210, a memory 220) configured to cause the UE to: receive a message for mobile terminating (MT) small data transmission (SDT) from a network device ([0134] Configuration and Conditions for Downlink Small Data Transmission (SDT) [0135] Data having a small size and/or a signaling message having a small size (hereinafter referred to as 'small data transmission (SDT)') may occur intermittently… the base station may perform the SDT to the terminal operating in the RRC idle state or the RRC inactive state. [0136] Here, downlink SDT of the base station may be performed with downlink radio resources obtained through a paging procedure, a random access procedure, or a downlink configured grant (CG) ( or semi-persistent scheduling) transmission procedure. [0137] The base station may transmit configuration information related to downlink SDT to the terminal. For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet. [0138] In addition, the base station may transmit, to the terminal and through system information or a separate control message, configuration information (i.e., configuration information for downlink SDT reception and/or uplink transmission operation of the terminal for the downlink SDT reception (hereinafter, DL SDT configuration information)) indicating whether downlink SDT reception using the paging procedure and/or RA procedure, or the SPS resource is allowed.), the UE supporting a radio resource control (RRC) non-CONNECTED state with the network device ([0128] As shown in FIG. 5, operation states of the terminal may be classified into an RRC connected state, an RRC inactive state, and an RRC idle state. [0135] When an SDT occurs in the base station, the base station may perform the SDT to the terminal operating in the RRC idle state or the RRC inactive state); and determine a downlink (DL) data receiving procedure for MT SDT according to the message for MT SDT ([0137] The base station may transmit configuration information related to downlink SDT to the terminal. For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet. [0138] In addition, the base station may transmit, to the terminal and through system information or a separate control message, configuration information (i.e., configuration information for downlink SDT reception and/or uplink transmission operation of the terminal for the downlink SDT reception (hereinafter, DL SDT configuration information)) indicating whether downlink SDT reception using the paging procedure and/or RA procedure, or the SPS resource is allowed.) Claim 2 With respect to claim 2, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein the message includes at least one of an intention indication, a responding indication and a DL data size indication, wherein the intention indication indicates that an intention of the message is MT SDT, the responding indication indicates a procedure that can be used for responding to paging for MT SDT, the DL data size indication indicates at least one of DL data size, a reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold, whether the DL data size is larger or smaller than a data size threshold, or the DL data is one-shot transmission or multiple-shot transmission [0137] The base station may transmit configuration information related to downlink SDT to the terminal. For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet. [0138] In addition, the base station may transmit, to the terminal and through system information or a separate control message, configuration information (i.e., configuration information for downlink SDT reception and/or uplink transmission operation of the terminal for the downlink SDT reception (hereinafter, DL SDT configuration information)) indicating whether downlink SDT reception using the paging procedure and/or RA procedure, or the SPS resource is allowed. [0231] The base station may configure one or more selectable RA preamble (RA MSG 1) resource groups according to the size of the downlink SDT and/or the channel quality of the radio link ( e.g., path loss, RSRP, or RSRQ, etc.). [0359] According to a size threshold ( or condition value) of downlink SDT configured for DL SDT operation and/or a subsequent data transmission method for segmented transmission of downlink SDT, the terminal may use one or more downlink resources to perform the DL SDT reception operation.). Claim 3 With respect to claim 3, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein the message is one of a paging message, a short message, a short message indicator, a new broadcast message, a new RRC message, or a new message on Uu interface ([0138] Kim disclosed transmission of configuration information for DL SDT reception in a separate control message which may be an RRC message , which is new because the DL SDT configuration information in it is new. [0173] the base station may transmit control information indicating a DL SDT reception operation on a physical layer control channel (PDCCH). In this case, the PDCCH may be transmitted using a paging scheduling identifier ( e.g., P-RNTI), a paging scheduling identifier for SDT (e.g., SDT P-RNTI), or a scheduling identifier (e.g., C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SDT-RNTI, or SDT C-RNTI, etc.) pre-assigned to the terminal (or terminal group) based on the above-described DL SDT configuration information.). Claim 4 With respect to claim 4, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein one of a random access channel based SDT (RA-SDT), a configured grant based SDT (CG-SDT), or a legacy random access channel (RACH) procedure is determined as the DL data receiving procedure for MT SDT ([0137] The base station may transmit configuration information related to downlink SDT to the terminal. For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet.). Claim 5 With respect to claim 5, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to determine the DL data receiving procedure for MT SDT by determining resuming occasion and/or resumed configurations ([0242] Upon receiving the control information indicating the DL SDT reception operation transmitted by the base station in step S702, the terminal may transmit an MSG-A ( or, RA MSG-A) to the base station by using the uplink radio resource obtained from the control information received in step S702 and/or the DL SDT configuration information received in step S701 (S703). The MSG-A may include an RA preamble and a terminal identifier ( e.g., UE ID, DL SDT scheduling identifier). Here, the UE ID transmitted using the RA MSG-A may be a terminal identifier for SDT operation, and the terminal identifier for SDT operation may be an identifier assigned to the terminal to identify the terminal in the inactive state, I-RNTI of the 3GPP NR system, or a terminal identifier in an RRC resume request message (e.g., resume-identity, I-RNTI, ShortI-RNTI, etc. of the 3GPP NR system). In addition, the DL SDT scheduling identifier may be a C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SDT-RNTI, or SDT C-RNTI pre-assigned to the terminal. [0248] Here, the control signaling information may include… request information of RRC connection re-establishment, resume request information.). Claim 6 With respect to claim 6, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 5 (see rejection above), wherein the resuming occasion is one of: upon the message for MT SDT is received; upon Uplink (UL) responding procedure is initiated; upon UL responding message is transmitted; after RRC resume request message has been successfully received; or after UL transmission on Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) has been confirmed ([0242] Upon receiving the control information indicating the DL SDT reception operation transmitted by the base station in step S702, the terminal may transmit an MSG-A ( or, RA MSG-A) to the base station by using the uplink radio resource obtained from the control information received in step S702 and/or the DL SDT configuration information received in step S701 (S703). The MSG-A may include an RA preamble and a terminal identifier ( e.g., UE ID, DL SDT scheduling identifier). Here, the UE ID transmitted using the RA MSG-A may be a terminal identifier for SDT operation, and the terminal identifier for SDT operation may be an identifier assigned to the terminal to identify the terminal in the inactive state, I-RNTI of the 3GPP NR system, or a terminal identifier in an RRC resume request message (e.g., resume-identity, I-RNTI, ShortI-RNTI, etc. of the 3GPP NR system). In addition, the DL SDT scheduling identifier may be a C-RNTI, CS-RNTI, SDT-RNTI, or SDT C-RNTI pre-assigned to the terminal. [0248] Here, the control signaling information may include… request information of RRC connection re-establishment, resume request information.). Claim 7 With respect to claim 7, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 5 (see rejection above), wherein the resumed configurations include beam configurations, and the beam configurations are resumed according to configuration contained in the message for MT SDT from the network device, or the beam configurations are not allowed to be resumed ([0171] The terminal may obtain the above-described DL SDT configuration information by receiving the system information and/or control message from the base station. [0172] The system information may be configured for each base station, for each beam group, or for each beam. [0240] The configuration information of the RA radio resource may include one or more of… beam configuration information according to a beamforming technique (e.g., beam width or beam index. [0263] the beam configuration information may be information indicating activation or deactivation of a specific beam.). Claim 8 With respect to claim 8, Kim disclosed: The UF of claim 7 (see rejection above), wherein only the beam configurations associated with non-expired timing adjustment timers (TATs) can be resumed ([0196] In addition, the RA MSG2 of the 4-step RA procedure performed for SDT operation may include… transmission timing adjustment information [0363] For Method 2, a DL SDT operation procedure may be divided into a DL SDT operation initiation step and a DL SDT operation execution step. The DL SDT operation initiation step may refer to a period from a time at which the terminal receives the DL SDT operation indication message to a time at which the terminal transmits a response message (or feedback information) to the DL SDT operation indication message. The DL SDT operation execution step may refer to a step in which the terminal receives a DL SDT packet by using a downlink radio resource. In the DL SDT operation initiation step, the terminal may manage ( or detect) whether the DL SDT operation has failed by using the legacy radio link resume timer (e.g., T319 timer), uplink synchronization acquisition management timer, RA window timer, or the like.) Claim 9 With respect to claim 9, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 5 (see rejection above), wherein the resumed configurations include beam configurations, and the beam configurations are released when a neighboring cell is reselected to respond to the MT SDT ([0333] The SPS configuration information for DL SDT operation may be applied or valid only for a base station that has configured (or signaled) the corresponding SPS configuration information. Accordingly, the base station may transmit SPS configuration information of neighboring base station( s) to the terminal through system information. The SPS configuration information of the neighboring base station(s) included in the system information may be configured in form of a list consisting of SPS configuration(s) of one or more neighboring base station(s). [0334] When the terminal in the inactive state moves from the base station to which the received SPS configuration information is applied to another base station, the terminal may obtain SPS configuration information again from a new base station. To this end, the terminal may perform a procedure of obtaining SPS configuration information whenever it enters a new base station, or may obtain the SPS configuration information of the new base station using system information. [0336] Alternatively, SPS resource(s) applicable to a plurality of base stations may be configured for the terminal in the inactive state… Hereinafter, the SPS resource(s) shared or partially overlapped between the plurality of base stations will be referred to as 'shared SPS resource(s)' or 'common SPS resource(s)'. The Examiner finds Kim implies that the beam configurations would be released in a situation in which the resources are not shared for the new base station, since configuration would only be applies for a valid BS that has configured the corresponding SPS configuration information). Claim 10 With respect to claim 10, Kim disclosed: A base station for wireless communication, comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory ([0052] Meanwhile, each of the plurality of communication nodes 110-1, 110-2, 110-3, 120-1, 120-2, 130-1, 130-2, 130-3, 130-4, 130-5, and 130-6 constituting the communication system 100 may have the following structure. [0053] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary embodiment of a communication node constituting a communication system. [0054] Referring to FIG. 2, a communication node 200 may comprise at least one processor 210, a memory 220, and a transceiver 230 connected to the network for performing communications. [0056] base stations 110-1, 110-2, 110-3, 120-1, and 120-2.) and configured to cause the base station to: transmit a message for mobile terminating (MT) small data transmission (SDT) to a user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control (RRC) non-CONNECTED state (([0134] Configuration and Conditions for Downlink Small Data Transmission (SDT) [0135] Data having a small size and/or a signaling message having a small size (hereinafter referred to as 'small data transmission (SDT)') may occur intermittently… the base station may perform the SDT to the terminal operating in the RRC idle state or the RRC inactive state. [0136] Here, downlink SDT of the base station may be performed with downlink radio resources obtained through a paging procedure, a random access procedure, or a downlink configured grant (CG) ( or semi-persistent scheduling) transmission procedure. [0137] The base station may transmit configuration information related to downlink SDT to the terminal. For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet. [0138] In addition, the base station may transmit, to the terminal and through system information or a separate control message, configuration information (i.e., configuration information for downlink SDT reception and/or uplink transmission operation of the terminal for the downlink SDT reception (hereinafter, DL SDT configuration information)) indicating whether downlink SDT reception using the paging procedure and/or RA procedure, or the SPS resource is allowed.); and receive an uplink (UL) message to indicate a downlink (DL) data receiving procedure for MT SDT ([0197] the terminal may transmit the RA MSG3 (i.e., message 3) including its own information (i.e., terminal (or UE) information) to the base station (S605). The terminal information may include one or more of an identifier of the terminal, capability, attribute, mobility state, location information, a reason for radio access, size information of uplink data to be transmitted (e.g., buffer status report (BSR)), connection establishment request information, or downlink measurement information. In addition, in step S605, the terminal may transmit a control message requesting necessary information to the base station in an on-demand manner. The base station may receive an uplink SDT packet and/or the control message requesting necessary information transmitted by the terminal in step S605. [0242] Upon receiving the control information indicating the DL SDT reception operation transmitted by the base station in step S702, the terminal may transmit an MSG-A ( or, RA MSG-A) to the base station by using the uplink radio resource obtained from the control information received in step S702 and/or the DL SDT configuration information received in step S701 (S703). The MSG-A may include an RA preamble and a terminal identifier ( e.g., UE ID, DL SDT scheduling identifier). [0243] In addition, the MSG-A may further include uplink data and/or control information. The message transmitted by the terminal in step S703 of FIG. 7 may be referred to as the 'RA MSG-A'). Claim 11 Claim 11 recites limitations similar to claim 2 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 12 Claim 11 recites limitations similar to claim 2 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 16 With respect to claim 16, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein absence of a responding indication in the message indicates that the UE is allowed to respond to paging for MT SDT with a configured grant based SDT (CG-SDT) procedure ([0136] Here, downlink SDT of the base station may be performed with downlink radio resources obtained through a paging procedure, a random access procedure, or a downlink configured grant (CG) ( or semi-persistent scheduling) transmission procedure. [0137] For downlink SDT, the base station may transmit a paging message to the terminal, instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure, or configure ( or allocate) a downlink configured grant (CG) resource (hereinafter, SPS resource) for SDT transmission in advance and activate it so as to make the terminal to perform a reception operation. That is, the base station may configure a SPS resource for SDT transmission and transmit configuration information of the SPS resource to the terminal so that the terminal can receive a intermittently-occurring downlink SDT packet. The Examiner finds that Kim implies that absence of an instruct the terminal to perform a random access (RA) procedure (i.e., a responding indication ) indicates that the UE is allowed to respond to paging for MT SDT with a configured grant based SDT (CG-SDT) procedure since SDT occurs using either Random Access or Configured Grant). Claim 17 With respect to claim 17, Kim disclosed: The UE of claim 1 (see rejection above), wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to determine a resuming occasion at which one or both of configured SDT data resource bearers (DRBs) or SDT signal resource bearers (SRBs) are resumed according to the message for MT SDT ([0248] The RA payload of MSG-A may include a terminal identifier (e.g., UE ID, DL SDT scheduling identifier, etc.), uplink data (or SDT packet), a logical channel identifier (LCID) for identifying a bearer (e.g., data radio bearer (DRB) or signaling radio bearer (SRB)) for uplink SDT, or control signaling information. Here, the control signaling information may include a BSR, measurement result information (e.g., quality information), BFR request information, RLF report information, request information of RRC connection setup, request information of RRC connection re-establishment, resume request information, and transmission request information of system information.). Claim 18 Claim 18 recites limitations similar to claim 1 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 19 Claim 19 recites limitations similar to claim 2 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 20 Claim 20 recites limitations similar to claim 3 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 21 Claim 21 recites limitations similar to claim 16 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 22 Claim 22 recites limitations similar to claim 17 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 23 Claim 23 recites limitations similar to claim 1 and is rejected by the same reasoning. Claim 24 Claim 24 recites limitations similar to claim 2 and is rejected by the same reasoning. PERTINENT PRIOR ART 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure : 1. 18/688,555 (“Kos”) is prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) since it published as US 2025/0126566 A1, names another inventor (Jussi-Pekka KOSKINEN), and was effectively filed Sep. 2, 2021 before Dec. 21, 2021 the effective filing date of the claimed invention. Kos disclosed [Abstract] obtaining one or more first conditions for small data transmission, said one or more first conditions being specific to a first device type, wherein the one or more first conditions are different compared with one or more second conditions for small data transmission, said one or more second conditions being associated with a second device type different to the first device type; and initiating, if the one or more first conditions are fulfilled, a small data transmission procedure, while in a radio resource control inactive state or idle state. [0051] The SDT procedure may take place on random-access channel (RACH) resources or type 1 configured grant (CG) resources. 2. 18/560,180 (“Tseng”) is prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) since it published as US 2024/0244703 A1, names another inventor (YUNG-LAN TSENG), and was effectively filed May 10, 2021 before Dec. 21, 2021 the effective filing date of the claimed invention. Tseng [Abstract] disclosed an SDT configuration associated with both an SUL carrier and an NUL carrier; selecting one of the SUL carrier and the NUL carrier as a first operating UL carrier when the UE is triggered to start an SDT procedure and while the UE is in an RRC inactive state; selecting at least one CG resource or at least one RA resource associated with the first operating UL carrier for the SDT procedure. CONCLUSION Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to Christopher Davis whose telephone number is 703-756-1832. The examiner can normally be reached Mon-Fri from 11AM to 7PM ET. If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner’s supervisor, Ayaz Sheikh, can be reached at telephone number 571 - 272 - 3795. The fax phone number for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is 571-273-8300. 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