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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
Claims 1, 13, and 26, objected to because of the following informalities: The claims recited acronym (i.e. PBCH) which is not clearly defined in the claim. Appropriate correction is required.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 2, 13, 14, and 26, is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kaikkonen et al. (US Publication No. 20210392525).
As to claims 1, 13, and 26, Kaikkonen teaches a measurement method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device based on synchronization signal and PBCH block (SSB) indexes (fig. 2, fig. 4), the device comprising: processing circuitry configured to, add a first SSB index corresponding to a first SSB into a first measurement candidate set based on the first SSB having a first measured signal quality value greater than a threshold (fig. 2, fig. 4, pp0028, pp0104, configuring or identifying a set of the at least one synchronization signal block based on the at least one condition, wherein the set is identified based on a signal quality condition associated with the synchronization signal block signal, where the condition may be signal quality based condition, determined from measurement on at least one, subset or all SSB, or at least one, subset or all CSI-RS (beam management or L3 mobility), of a predefined set, meeting or exceeding predefined absolute or/and relative threshold(s), and pp0117, sets may be labeled as Set 1, Set 2 etc. Set 1 may have SSB indexes #0 . . . #1 and Set 2 SSB indexes #2 . . . #3), and measure a signal quality value for each SSB corresponding to a respective SSB index in the first measurement candidate set in a first SSB measurement period (fig. 2, fig. 4, pp0064, SS-RSRP shall be measured only among the reference signals corresponding to SS/PBCH blocks with the same SS/PBCH block index, pp0034, wherein the periodicity associated with the measurements of at least one synchronization signal block comprises at least one of: an adapted configuration is applied for all synchronization signal block measurement time instances associated with a block measurement time configuration window, an adapted configuration is applied for synchronization signal block measurement time instances indicated by a new periodicity associated with a block measurement time configuration window, and pp0117).
As to claims 2 and 14, Kaikkonen teaches further comprising: measuring first respective signal quality values for SSBs corresponding to all SSB indexes among a first set of SSB indexes in a second SSB measurement period (fig. 2, fig. 4, pp0028, pp0104, determined from measurement on at least one, subset or all SSB, or at least one, subset or all CSI-RS (beam management or L3 mobility), of a predefined set, meeting or exceeding predefined absolute or/and relative threshold(s), and pp0117, sets may be labeled as Set 1, Set 2 etc. Set 1 may have SSB indexes #0 . . . #1 and Set 2 SSB indexes #2 . . . #3), the second SSB measurement period preceding the first SSB measurement period (fig. 2, fig. 4, pp0062, measurement time resource(s) for SS-RSRP are confined within SS/PBCH Block Measurement Time Configuration (SMTC) window duration, and pp0074, SMTC window defines the time duration and periodicity for SSB based RRM measurements. UE can be given SMTC window for IDLE mode measurements (smtc) as well as for the CONNECTED mode two separate configurations (stmc1, smtc2), and pp0078, if the smtc1 periodicity is configured as sf10, the periodicity of smtc2 can only be set to sf5).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-12 and 15-19 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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/OMONIYI OBAYANJU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2645
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