Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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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, 6, 11, and 16 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Park US 20240340058.
Regarding claim 1, 6, 11, and 16, Park teaches a method performed by a user equipment (UE) (user equipment, [0006]) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station, channel state information (CSI) report configuration information including a list of sub-configurations (The received CSI report configuration
information includes at least one sub configuration information, [0006]); and
transmitting, to the base station, a first CSI report for at least one sub-configuration associated with the list of sub-configurations (the transmitted CSI report includes at least one CSI obtained in units of sub configuration based on the at least one sub configuration information, [0006]).
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) 5, 10, 15, and 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Park as applied to claims 1, 6, 11, and 16 above, and further in view of Kim EP 4668607.
Park is silent on wherein a CSI computation delay parameter of the first CSI report corresponding to the CSI report configuration information including the list of sub-configurations is predefined.
Kim teaches wherein a CSI computation delay parameter / “computation delay parameter” of the first CSI report corresponding to the CSI report configuration information including the list of sub-configurations is predefined
(According to Section 5.4 of [Table 10], when a specific configuration exists, the UE may perform CSI reporting quickly. Referring to Table 5.4-1 of [Table 10], as CSI computation
delay requirement (computation delay requirement) 1 / “computation delay parameter”, a fast CSI feedback timing Z1Z1′[AltContent: rect]is defined. However, as in framework #1, framework #2, or framework #3, for one CSI report configuration in which the number of a plurality of APs and/or a plurality of power
offset values are related or a plurality of sub-configurations
are configured, [0175]).
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 Park by wherein a CSI computation delay parameter of the first CSI report corresponding to the CSI report configuration information including the list of sub-configurations is predefined, as suggested by Kim. This modification would benefit the system by setting optimal sub-configurations.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-4, 7-9, 12-14, and 17-19 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.
Conclusion
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