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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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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) 1-30 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Da Silva US 20250294517 in view of Abedini US 20210051558
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: [[a memory]]; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and, based at least in part on information stored in the memory, the at least one processor is configured to:
establish a connection with a network node (Da Silva: [0008, 0363] User data is transmitted between the UE 101 and the source gNB 103a, and between the source gNG 103a and the UPF(s) 108.);
measure one or more signals received from the network node over a time period (Da Silva: [0364] performs periodic measurements of quality associated with the serving and neighbor network nodes, e.g. RSRP); and
communicate with the network node based on a communication state of the UE (Da Silva: [0068,-0069, 0150, 0364] report the predicted mobility information to a first network node), the communication state of the UE based at least in part on a history of measurements performed on the one or more signals received over the time period (Da Silva: fig. 6 [0068,-0069, 0150, 0156, 0162-0165, 0364] mobility history parameters and time information).
Da Silva merely discloses the term “a memory”
Abedini further teaches the term memory (Abedini: fig. 16 unit 1604 - processor coupled to the transceiver).
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Da Silva’s invention in order to ensure network connection and communication quality under a situation of high-moving mobility state (fig. 8, step 2), as taught by Abedini.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication state of the UE is associated with a mobility state of the UE, the at least one processor further configured to: receive a network type indicator associated with a mobility condition while communicating with the network node, wherein the UE measures the one or more signals over the time period based on the network type indicator being associated with the mobility condition (Da Silva: Table 2 [0076, 0091, 0173-0176] WhiteCellList or ReportConfigNR; Abedini: fig. 8 [0111-0116] receive one or more signals from a second wireless device 804, such as a target serving cell).
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: skip determining the communication state for a network indicating a second network type indicator that is not associated with the mobility condition (Abedini: [0116] determining not to establish the connection with the second wireless device 804 when, based on the indication of the mobility state corresponding to the second wireless device 804, the one or more cell selection criteria are not satisfied).
4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the network type indicator indicates that the network node is associated with a high-speed train (HST) cell (Abedini: fig. 8 [0082, 0111-0116] high speed train).
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the communication state indicates that the UE is in a moving state or a stationary state with the HST cell and that the UE is located in an HST (Abedini: fig. 8 [0082, 0096, 0113] moving in a same direction with a similar mobility state as the first wireless device).
6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the communication state indicates that the UE is in a moving state or a stationary state with the HST cell and that the UE is not located in an HST (Abedini: fig. 8 [0082, 0088, 0102] moving at a high-speed, in a different direction than the wireless device).
7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the network type indicator indicates that the network node is associated with a non-high-speed train (non-HST) cell (Da Silva: fig. 6, BS A - BS D; (Abedini: [0085, 0097] stationary, low-speed mobility, medium-speed mobility).
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the measurements include at least one of: a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), a frequency error, and a time advance associated with a Network Time Advance (NTA) (Da Silva: [0364] e.g. RSRP).
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the communication state is further based on a rate of Physical Cell Identity (PCI) change (Da Silva: [0173] e.g. identified by a physical cell identified).
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: apply a machine learning algorithm to the history of the measurements to detect the communication state of the UE (Da Silva: fig. 3 [0068-0071, 0159]).
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes a long short-term memory (LSTM) architecture (Da Silva: [0159] e.g. Long short-term memory (LSTM)).
12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication state indicates is associated with a location within an elevator (Da Silva: [0089-0090] e.g., Aerial UE height becomes higher than an absolute threshold or lower than an absolute threshold).
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication state is associated with an ambient condition of the UE (Da Silva: fig. 3, unit 321 “user behavior 321” [0089-0090, 0145] e.g., Aerial UE height becomes higher than an absolute threshold or lower than an absolute threshold).
14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: perform a first handover procedure when the communication state is a first communication state, or perform a second handover procedure when the communication state is a second communication state, the first handover procedure being a different handover type than the second handover procedure, the first communication state being a different state than the second communication state (Da Silva: [0034] e.g. handover).
15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: perform a first channel estimation procedure when the communication state is a first communication state, or perform a second channel estimation procedure when the communication state is a second communication state, the first channel estimation procedure being a different channel estimation type than the second channel estimation procedure, the first communication state being a different state than the second communication state (Da Silva: fig. 6, [0084-0090]).
16. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to: perform a first control channel decoding procedure when the communication state is a first communication state, or perform a second control channel decoding procedure when the communication state is a second communication state, the first control channel decoding procedure being a different control channel decoding type than the second control channel decoding procedure, the first communication state being a different state than the second communication state (Da Silva: [0043] mobilityControlInfo and RRCReconfiguration).
17. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a transceiver coupled to the at least one processor (Da Silva: [0447]).
Regarding claims 18-30, the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1-17, where the difference used is a “method” and the wordings of the claims were interchanged within the claim itself or some of the claims were presented as a combination of two or more previously presented limitations. This change does not affect the limitation of the above treated claims. Adding these phrases to the claims and interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore, these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above.
Conclusion
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/SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415
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