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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, 8-12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by SHRIVASTAVA US 20240187823.
Regarding claim 1, 8-12, SHRIVASTAVA teaches a communication method performed by a user equipment in a mobile
communication system providing a multicast and broadcast service (MBS), the
communication method comprising:
transmitting an MBS interest indication regarding an MBS session to a serving cell, wherein
the MBS session is a broadcast session, and
the MBS interest indication does not include an MBS session identifier indicating the MBS session and includes information regarding common frequency resource for reception of
the MBS session (Furthermore, the UE 10 can inform its priority for MBS and unicast, and/or its preference for BWP/CFR/CORESET in a MBS interest indication message, [0110]).
Regarding claim 2, the MBS interest indication comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an identifier of an initial bandwidth part (preference for BWP, [0110]), an identifier of the common frequency resource (preference for CFR, [0110]), an identifier indicating a frequency or a resource block corresponding to the initial bandwidth part, and an identifier indicating a frequency or a resource block corresponding to the common frequency resource.
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) 3, 4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over SHRIVASTAVA US 20240187823 ‘823 as applied to claim 1 above, and further in view of US SHRIVASTAVA 20220132468 ‘468.
Regarding claim 3, ‘823 is silent on the transmitting of the MBS interest indication comprises transmitting the MBS interest indication to the serving cell when transmitting an RRC Setup Complete message or an RRC Resume Complete message to the serving cell.
‘468 teaches transmitting of the MBS interest indication comprises transmitting the MBS interest indication
to the serving cell when transmitting an RRC Setup Complete message (the UE 101 can send an MBS interest indication over MSG-5 or RRC setup complete message, [0061]) or an RRC Resume Complete message to the serving cell.
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of ‘823 by transmitting of the MBS interest indication comprises transmitting the MBS interest indication to the serving cell when transmitting an RRC Setup Complete message, as shown by ‘3468. This modification would benefit the system by efficiently transmitting both pieces of information in a single communication.
Regarding claim 4, the MBS interest indication comprises, as the frequency information, a list of MBS frequencies that the user equipment is receiving or is interested in receiving (‘468: list of frequencies that are preferred or supported by the UE for receiving MBS, [0016]).
Claim(s) 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of SHRIVASTAVA US 20240187823 ‘823 and SHRIVASTAVA ‘468 as applied to claim 1 above, and further in view of US SHRIVASTAVA US 20230209315 ‘315.
The combination is silent on the MBS interest indication further comprises priority information indicating whether to prioritize reception of the MBS frequencies in the list or reception of a unicast bearer.
‘315 teaches the MBS interest indication further comprises priority information indicating whether to prioritize reception of the MBS frequencies in the list or reception of a unicast bearer (At S806, the UE (100) sends the MII message to the first network (200A) wherein the MII consists one or more broadcast service info (TMGIs), one or more frequencies and the field for priority of MBS/unicast, [0244]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of the combination by the MBS interest indication further comprises priority information indicating whether to prioritize reception of the MBS frequencies in the list or reception of a unicast bearer, as shown by ‘315. This modification would benefit the system by enabling the network to select an optimal frequency for communication with the UE.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6 and 7 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.
Conclusion
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/RONALD B ABELSON/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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