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 .
DETAILED ACTION
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.
(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.
Claims 1, 2, 6-8, 12 and 17-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Sadeghi et al (US 2020/0359248, “Sadeghi”).
Re claims 1, 7 and 17-20, Sadeghi discloses sending/receiving a first radio frame (figure 10, element 806), wherein the first radio frame comprises first time information, the first time information indicates timeout time information for a proxy access point (AP) to provide feedback on a sensing measurement result (measurement report), and the sensing measurement result comprises a measurement result of a wireless local area network (WLAN) sensing measurement established by the proxy AP acting as a proxy for the initiator (paragraph [0024]; figure 10).
Re claims 2 and 8, Sadeghi discloses the first time information comprises latency information for the proxy AP to establish the WLAN sensing measurement, or the timeout time information for the proxy AP to provide the feedback on the sensing measurement result (paragraph [0023], The trigger frame 806 triggers the STAs to (regularly and/or periodically).
Re claims 6 and 12, Sadeghi discloses the first radio frame comprises a sensing by proxy (SBP) requesting frame or a sensing message frame (figure 10, element 806), and wherein the sensing message frame comprises a message frame during an establishment of the WLAN sensing measurement by the proxy AP acting as a proxy for the initiator paragraph [0023]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-5 and 9-11 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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/HONG S CHO/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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