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 .
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1,2,5,6,7,8,12,13,15,16,17,18, and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a1) as being anticipated by Ali et al. ( WO 2025/181789).
For independent claim 1( WO 2025/181789) discloses a system/method comprising:
an ambient Internet of things (AIoT) device reader comprising: at least one memory ( See box 1304 in Figure 13); and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the reader to ( See box 1302 in Figure 13): transmit a configuration to at least one AIoT device, the configuration indicating a duty cycle associated with a at least one characteristic of the at least one AIoT device ( See details of box 1406 in Figure 14) ; and receive, within an inventory round, an inventory message from the at least one AIoT device having the at least one characteristic in a random access channel (RACH) occasion of the duty cycle ( See details of box 1408 in Figure 14).
For independent claims 12 and 20 are rejected for the same reason as claim 1.
For dependent claims 2,5,6,7,8,13,15,16,17, and 18 Ali et al. ( WO 2025/181789) also discloses:
wherein the at least one characteristic comprises an energy storage size, a device type, or a combination thereof ( See paragraph 0061 lines 1-10);
wherein the at least one characteristic comprises a device type selected from the group consisting of a Device 1, a Device 2a, and a Device 2b ( See boxes 904,906, and 908 in Figure 9A);
wherein the duty cycle is selected from a first duty cycle associated with Device 1, a second duty cycle associated with Device 2a, and a third duty cycle associated with Device 2b( See details of boxes 904,906, and 908 in Figure 9A).
wherein the configuration indicates a second duty cycle associated with at least one second characteristic, and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the reader to: receive a second inventory message from an AIoT device having the at least one second characteristic in a RACH occasion of the second duty cycle( See details of boxes 1406 and 1408 in Figure 14); and
wherein the configuration further indicates at least one of a cyclic shift, a preamble, and a base sequence to be used by AIoT devices having the at least one characteristic( See box 914 in Figure 9A).
Claims 3,4,9,10,11,14, and 19 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.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Xu (12,471,046) is cited to show a system which is considered pertinent to the claimed invention.
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/DANG T TON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476 /D.T.T/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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