DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 19 September 2024 is being considered by the examiner.
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Figure 6 of the application illustrates the claimed invention.
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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, 8 and 15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over (WO 2008/042906 A2) in view of WO 2007/046764 A1.
Regarding claims 1, 8 and 15, (WO 2008/042906 A2) discloses a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for controlling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, the method comprising:
receiving a handover command from a serving cell via broadcast signaling, the handover command
(WO 2008/042906 A2) discloses a handover to any cell of target base station. ([0030]: “The UE may obtain a list of candidate cells of the target eNB, which are candidates for handover, in various manners. In one design, the source eNB may send the list of candidate cells to the UE, e.g., by including cell IDs of these cells in a Handover Command message send to direct the UE to perform handover...The UE may select one candidate cell at a time from the list to attempt handover, starting with the first cell in the list.”).
(WO 2008/042906 A2) fails to teach the handover command comprising at least one of HARQ feedback configuration or a HARQ state configuration associated with a candidate cell.
(WO 2007/127557 A2) in the same field of invention, teaches (“In step 340, the wireless communication device 200 can receive information. For example, the wireless communication device 200 can receive automatic repeat request feedback message from a candidate cell of the multiple candidate cells, the hybrid automatic repeat feedback message indicating receipt of the channel quality indicator message.
As another example, the wireless communication device 200 can receive information from the serving cell regarding which candidate cell to select as the new serving cell. The wireless communication device 200 can also determine which candidate cell to select as the new serving cell. Page 7, lines 20-32).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to those having ordinary skilled in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to implement the UE to receive a hybrid automatic repeat request message from a candidate cell of the multiple cells, the HARQ feedback message indicating receipt of the channel quality indicator message.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7, 9-14 and 16-20 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.
Conclusion
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BRENDA H. PHAM
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2412
/BRENDA H PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2412
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