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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(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.
Claim(s) 1-2, 12-14 and 21 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Fu et al. (US Publication 2022/0400393 A1).
In regards to claims 1, 13 and 21, Fu et al. (US Publication 2022/0400393 A1) teaches, a repeater for wireless communication (see repeater in figure 11), comprising: at least one memory (see figure 3A); and at least one processor (see figure 3A) coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the repeater to: receive a first configuration of common control search space (see paragraph 110; Before the repeater receives the group-common DCI, the repeater obtains the period of the repeater blindly detecting the group-common DCI, the format of the DCI, the payload size of the DCI, the control resource set (CORESET), the Search space and the contents indicated by the fields in the DCI by receiving high-layer signaling. Only after obtaining these pieces of information, the repeater can blindly detect the group-common DCI according to these pieces of information and correctly interpret the contents in the DCI); receive a second configuration of control search space for control information, the first configuration of the common control search space indicating where to locate the second configuration of the control search space (see paragraph 113; For the downlink period, the repeater receives data and/or control information from the base station and transmits the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE. The information obtained by the repeater includes the receiving beam C1 for the repeater to receive the data and/or control information from the base station, the transmitting beam C2 for the repeater to transmit the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE and the transmitting power P2 for the repeater to transmit the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE); decode the control information from the second configuration of the control search space as repeater downlink control information (DCI) (see paragraph 150; A repeater determines the work state of the repeater by receiving the information of the work state indication channel (DCI) for the repeater); and apply the control information on link between a base station and a user equipment (see paragraph 154; The control information in the indication channel may also include K (K is a positive integer) information blocks for indicating the work state of the repeaters, each information block includes Lk bits of information, and each information block indicates the work state of repeaters for a group of repeaters (this group of repeaters includes at least one repeater), for example, the first L1-bit information block is for the work state of the repeaters of the first repeater group, the second L2-bit information block is for the work state of the repeaters of the second repeater group, and so on).
In regards to claims 2 and 14, Fu teaches, wherein a repeater common control resource set carries the repeater DCI located in the common control search space of the first configuration (see paragraph 161; The repeater obtains the period of the repeater blindly detecting group-common DCI, the format of the DCI, the payload size of the DCI, the control resource set (CORESET), the Search space and the contents indicated by the fields in the DCI by receiving high-layer signaling).
In regards to claim 12 a base station for wireless communication (see figure 3B), comprising: at least one memory (see figure 3B; memory 360); and at least one processor (see processors 374, 376 and 378 in figure 3B) coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the base station to: transmit, to a repeater, a first configuration of common control search space (see paragraph 110; Before the repeater receives the group-common DCI, the repeater obtains the period of the repeater blindly detecting the group-common DCI, the format of the DCI, the payload size of the DCI, the control resource set (CORESET), the Search space and the contents indicated by the fields in the DCI by receiving high-layer signaling. Only after obtaining these pieces of information, the repeater can blindly detect the group-common DCI according to these pieces of information and correctly interpret the contents in the DCI); and transmit, to the repeater, a second configuration of control search space for control information, the first configuration of the common control search space indicating to the repeater where to locate the second configuration of the control search space (see paragraph 113; For the downlink period, the repeater receives data and/or control information from the base station and transmits the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE. The information obtained by the repeater includes the receiving beam C1 for the repeater to receive the data and/or control information from the base station, the transmitting beam C2 for the repeater to transmit the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE and the transmitting power P2 for the repeater to transmit the data and/or control information received from the base station to the UE) and decode the control information from the second configuration of the control search space as repeater downlink control information (DCI) (see paragraph 150; A repeater determines the work state of the repeater by receiving the information of the work state indication channel (DCI) for the repeater) usable to control a link between the base station and a user equipment (see paragraph 154; The control information in the indication channel may also include K (K is a positive integer) information blocks for indicating the work state of the repeaters, each information block includes Lk bits of information, and each information block indicates the work state of repeaters for a group of repeaters (this group of repeaters includes at least one repeater), for example, the first L1-bit information block is for the work state of the repeaters of the first repeater group, the second L2-bit information block is for the work state of the repeaters of the second repeater group, and so on).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-11 and 15-19 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.
In regards to the claims, the dedicated dci and the indications for decoding as claimed.
Prior art Seo et al. (US Publication 2015/0201403 A1) teaches, allocating backhaul link resources in a relay system (see figure 20).
Conclusion
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