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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, 9 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wang US 20200213046.
Regarding claims 1, 9, Wang teaches a device (base station, [0190]) comprising:
a processor ([0024]) configured to:
determine that a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook is scheduled to be transmitted in a first slot (Harq-Ack codebook, [0190]), wherein a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator (PRI) is associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook (PRI, [0190]);
determine to drop the scheduled transmission of the HARQ-ACK codebook in the first slot (PUCCHs of the HARQ-ACKs of the two PDSCHs are located in different uplink sub-slots, [0190]);
determine a PUCCH resource set associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook (PUCCHs of the HARQ-ACKs of the two PDSCHs are located in different uplink sub-slots, [0190]);
select a resource from the PUCCH resource set based at least on the PRI (PUCCHs of the HARQ-ACKs of the two PDSCHs are located in different uplink sub-slots, [0190]);
determine a transmission time (PUCCHs of the HARQ-ACKs of the two PDSCHs are located in different uplink sub-slots, [0190]); and
transmit the HARQ-ACK codebook at the determined transmission time, wherein the transmission of the HARQ-ACK codebook at the determined transmission time is transmitted on the selected resource in a second slot (PUCCHs of the HARQ-ACKs of the two PDSCHs are located in different uplink sub-slots, [0190]).
Regarding claims 2, 10, the HARQ-ACK codebook is a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook is scheduled to be transmitted in the first slot, wherein the determination to
drop the scheduled transmission of the first HARQ-ACK codebook in the first slot is based on a determination that a priority associated with the second HARQ-ACK codebook is higher than a priority associated with the first HARQ-ACK codebook. (Here, the base station may not schedule the PDSCH resources of the two elements at the same time, or although the base station schedules the PDSCH resources of the two elements at the same time, the UE only feeds back HARQ-ACK information of one PDSCH according to a certain priority policy, [0167]).
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, 11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Wang as applied to claims 2, 10 above, and further in view of Lee US 20200008227.
Wang is silent on the determination that the priority of the second HARQ-ACK codebook is higher than the first HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a determination that the second HARQ-
ACK codebook has a lower latency requirement than the first HARQ-ACK codebook.
Lee teaches HARQ-ACK prioritization based upon latency (For example, a rule may be defined to drop longer TTI SR and transmit loner and/or shorter TTI HARQ-ACK and only shorter TTI SR to assign as high priority as possible to low latency traffic, [0148]).
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 Wang by the determination that the priority of the second HARQ-ACK codebook is higher than the first HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a determination that the second HARQ-ACK codebook has a lower latency requirement than the first HARQ-ACK codebook, as suggested by Lee. This modification would benefit the system by ensuring that low latency HARQ-ACK codebooks have a higher priority than higher latency HARQ-ACK codebooks.
Claim(s) 4, 12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Wang as applied to claims 2, 10 above, and further in view of Lee US 20220006570.
Wang is silent on the determination that the priority of the second HARQ-ACK codebook is higher than the first HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a determination that the second HARQ-ACK codebook has a higher reliability requirement than the first HARQ-ACK codebook.
Lee teaches prioritizing HARQ-ACK transmissions with higher reliability requirements (Therefore, an HARQ-ACK corresponding to a specific target service and/or QoS and/or BLER requirement and/or reliability requirement and/or latency requirement and/or processing time may mean an HARQ-ACK corresponding to a lower-priority target service and/or QoS and/or BLER requirement and/or reliability requirement and/or latency requirement and/or processing time, [0162]).
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 Wang by on the determination that the priority of the second HARQ-ACK codebook is higher than the first HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a determination that the second HARQ-ACK codebook has a higher reliability requirement than the first HARQ-ACK codebook, as suggested by Lee. This modification would benefit the system by ensuring that HARQ-ACK codebooks with higher reliability requirements are transmitted first.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 5-8 and 13-16 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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