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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 .
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority based on an application filed in China on 02/18/2022. It is noted, however, that applicant has not filed a certified copy of the 202210153310.1 application as required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 3, 8, 11, 13, and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention. Claims 1, 3, 8, 11, 13, and 18 fail to point out and claim what the symbols of “DCI”, “PUSCH”, “SRI”, and “SRS” represent in the claims.
Allowable Subject Matter
Khoshnevisan et al. (Pub. No.: US 2023/0115082) disclose management of concurrent uplink shared channel transmissions. Referring to Figure 2, the UE 115-a may identify PUSCH groups (e.g., sets of PUSCH messages) for the respective PUSCH messages 220 based on antenna ports (e.g., PUSCH antenna ports, SRS antenna ports, DMRS antenna ports) and/or CDM groups associated with the respective DMRS ports, where different antenna ports and/or CDM groups are associated with different PUSCH groups. The respective antenna ports may be indicated via different fields within the signaling 215 that schedules the respective PUSCH messages 220. For example, PUSCH and SRS antenna ports may be indicated within SRS resource indicator (SRI) fields in uplink DCI messages (e.g., DCI message 225), whereas DMRS antenna ports may be indicated via an “antenna port(s) field” in uplink DCI messages (para. 0106).
Perotti et al. (Pub. No.: US 2025/0015843) show in FIG. 10 the DCI structure according to the second example, where g indicates a subset of MIMO layers where the modulation order Qm that is indicated in the selected MCS is used, and a sequence of bits a1, . . . , aL-1, where a l-th bit a1 in the sequence of bits indicates that a l-th MIMO layer and a (l+1)-th MIMO layer are in the same subset of MIMO layers, where l is an integer (para. 0147).
The cited prior arts, taken alone or in combination, fail to disclose the claimed features of “a relationship between the bitwidth of the second field of the first signaling and the K1 candidate integers is related to whether a time-domain resource occupied by the first sub-signal overlaps with a time-domain resource occupied by the second sub-signal; when the time-domain resource occupied by the first sub-signal overlaps with the time-domain resource occupied by the second sub-signal, the bitwidth of the second field of the first signaling is no less than a logarithm of a sum of the K1 candidate integers with base 2; when the time-domain resource occupied by the first sub-signal and the time-domain resource occupied by the second sub-signal are mutually orthogonal, the bitwidth of the second field of the first signaling is no less than a logarithm of a greatest value of the K1 candidate integers with base 2” as recited in claims 1, 8, 11 and 18 when considering each claim individually as a whole.
Conclusion
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/ANH NGOC M NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2473
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