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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 19-20 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because [00454] of the original specification describes examples of the “computer-readable storage medium” as being “any usable medium accessible by a computer, or a data storage device, like a server or a data center integrating one or more usable media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a magnetic tape), an optical medium (for example, a DVD), a semiconductor medium (for example, a solid state disk (SSD)), or the like.” However, the term computer-readable storage medium” does not exclude transitory propagating signals as being part of the term “computer-readable storage medium”. A suggestion to incorporate the language term non-transitory in front of the term “computer-readable storage medium” in necessary to be in 35 USC 101 compliance.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding claims 1 and 18, Choi discloses “A method of reporting, by an electronic device, to a base station or a parent node, interference of a target signal transmitted from another electronic device (Abstract)”. Choi further discloses “ the base station or parent IAB node (or a parent node) may receive, from a terminal or an IAB node, interference measurement-related information and transmit required information to the terminal or IAB node, and the required information may include, for example, at least one of interference measurement configuration information in a plurality of beam directions, information about a direction of a specific reception beam, a parameter indicating a transmission resource of RS (for example, SRS) for interference measurement, a parameter indicating a transmission time of RS (for example, SRS) for interference measurement, a parameter indicating a resource required for a measurement result report, a parameter indicating a time required for a measurement result report, or information about a default beam direction (par. 0176).”
In addition, Frenne discloses “The network node 200 configures the terminal device 300a to perform and report channel measurements for a first reference signal resource set and interference measurements for a second reference signal resource set (par. 0059), as well as Using the received reporting, the network node 200 can determine how reliable the average interference level would be when selecting a transmission beam for communication with the terminal device 300a, where the selected transmission beam corresponds to one of the reference signal resources of the first reference signal resource set (par. 0062).” However, none of the references taken alone or in combination provide the motivation to teach or suggest the claimed generating, by the baseband unit, a first message based on the first parameter, wherein the first message indicates a radio frequency unit to adjust a beam coverage direction based on the first parameter, as well as wherein the first message includes an instruction to the radio frequency unit to adjust a beam coverage direction based on a first parameter; and adjusting, by the radio frequency unit, the beam coverage direction based on the first message and the first parameter.
Conclusion
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