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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 .
Claim Objections
Claims 68-91 are objected to because of the following informalities:
(1) Regarding claim 68:
Line 4 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisioning request” as recited in line 3 of claim 1.
Line 8 recites “from the from the”; the examiner suggests changing to “from the”.
(2) Regarding claim 72:
Line 1 recites “where model provisioning request”; the examiner suggests changing to “where the model provisioning request” as the term was introduced in claim 68.
(3) Regarding claim 81:
Line 2 recites “a model provisional response”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional response” as recited in claim 68.
(4) Regarding claim 82:
Line 1 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional request” as recited in claim 68.
(5) Regarding claim 84:
Line 3 recites “retrieval of the model by the consumer”; the examiner suggests changing to “retrieval of the selected model by the consumer”.
(6) Regarding claim 88:
Line 5 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional request”.
(7) Regarding claim 89:
Line 4 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional request”.
(8) Regarding claim 90:
Line 6 recites “a producer network node”; the examiner suggests changing to “the producer network node” as recited on line 3.
Line 7 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional request”.
(9) Regarding claim 91:
Line 4 recites “the model request”; the examiner suggests changing to “the model provisional request”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 68-91 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.
(1) Regarding claim 68:
Claim 68 recites the limitation "the model training" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(2) Regarding claim 69:
Claim 69 recites the limitation "the trained model" in line 5. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(3) Regarding claim 74:
Claim 74 recites the limitation "the reliability indicator" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(4) Regarding claim 75:
Claim 75 recites the limitation "the reliability indicator" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(5) Regarding claim 87:
Claim 87 recites the limitation "the trained model" in line 5. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(6) Regarding claim 88:
Claim 88 recite “the consumer network node” in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(7) Regarding claim 89:
Claim 89 recite “the consumer network node” in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(8) Regarding claim 90:
Claim 90 recite “the consumer network node” in line 9. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
(9) Regarding claim 91:
Claim 91 recite “the consumer network node” in lines 1-2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Kumar et al. (US 2022/0377844 A1) discloses ML model training procedure.
Xu et al. (US 12,506,663 B2) discloses method, apparatus and system for training management and control model.
Zhu et al. (US 11,916,754 B2) discloses configuring a user equipment for machine learning.
Bega et al. (US 12,349,000 B2) discloses mechanism for enabling custom analytics.
NPL (3GPP TS 23.288 V17.3.0, 3rd Generation Partnership Project, Release 17) discloses consumers of the ML model provisioning services may provide input parameters comprising target of ML Model Reporting indicates the object(s) for which ML model is requested, e.g. specific UEs, a group of UE(s) or any UE (i.e. all UEs) in page 95 paragraph 1-3, but fails to disclose the model provisioning request for a machine-learning model including a target identifier associated with a plurality of target user equipment (UEs) whose data is to be used in the model training or a model provisioning response including model information for at least one selected machine learning model, the model information comprises reliability information indicative of reliability of the selected machine learning model.
Papageorgiou et al. (US 2023/0060071 A1) discloses inference-aware ML model provisioning.
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/SIU M LEE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632 10/14/2026
