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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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, 2, and 15-18 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over SHRIVASTAVA 20230209315.
Regarding claims 1, 15-18 SHRIVASTAVA teaches a communication method performed by a user equipment in a mobile communication system for providing a multicast and broadcast service (MBS), the communication method comprising:
receiving, from a network node, information regarding a plurality of conditions for determining whether the user equipment is allowed to transmit (In an embodiment, triggering
to send the message comprising at least one of the UE capability information and the assistance information to the first network is performed based on at least one of a start of a service from the second network, a stop or termination of the service from the second network, and a change of configuration of the service from the second network, [0019]), to the network node, an MBS interest indication regarding an MBS session; and
determining whether to perform transmission processing of the MBS interest indication based on the information (In an embodiment, the message comprising at least one of the UE capability information and the assistance information is triggered on the first network upon meeting at least one condition. The at least one condition comprise linked with triggers, events and reporting of the second network (It implies the existing triggers for the MBS interest indication
used on the second network are considered as triggers for sending capability and assistance information on the first network), linked with triggers, events and reporting for the first network (It implies the existing triggers for the MBS
interest indication used on the first network are considered as triggers for sending capability and assistance information on the first network), the UE triggers a reporting to the first network, [0023]).
Although SHRIVASTAVA teaches one or more UEs receiving, from a network node, information regarding a plurality of conditions for determining whether the user equipment is allowed to transmit, the reference is silent on the information is received in a broadcast message. However, this is an obvious implementation given a broadcast message is an efficient means for sending information to a plurality of UEs.
Regarding claim 2, the information is configuration information configuring [[a]] the plurality of conditions
under which the user equipment is permitted to transmit, to the network node, the MBS interest indication (In an embodiment,
triggering to send the message comprising at least one of the UE capability information and the assistance information to the first network is performed based on at least one of a start of a service from the second network, a stop or termination of the service from the second network, and a change of configuration of the service from the second network, [0019]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-14 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.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to the amended independent claim(s) have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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