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 Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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) 1-14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 as being anticipated by Keating US 20230261837
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in wireless communication system, the method comprising:
determining a presence of a downlink (DL) signal or a DL channel of higher priority than a DL positioning reference signal (PRS) in a PRS processing window (PPW) no later than N symbols before a first symbol of the PPW (Keating: [0126-0127, 0150] priority state 2 i.e. PRS is lower priority than PDCCH and URLLC PDSCH);
based on the determination of the presence of the DL signal or the DL channel no later than the N symbols before the first symbol of the PPW, receiving the DL signal or the DL channel and dropping the DL PRS within the PPW (Keating: [0126-0127, 0150] prioritizing PDDCH, which received before the PPW and Drop the PRS and receive the PDCCH);
determining the presence of the DL signal or the DL channel of higher priority than the DL PRS in the PPW later than the N symbols before the first symbol of the PPW (Keating: [0150-0155] confirm whether PRS or PDSCH takes priority in the PPW (since some, but not all, PDSCH takes priority over PRS)); and
based on the determination of the presence of the DL signal or the DL channel later than the N symbols before the first symbol of the PPW, receiving the DL PRS (Keating: [0150-0155] If the DCI indicates PRS priority over PDSCH, then the next available symbol 336 may be reserved for PRS reception).
2. The method of claim 1, wherein in case that the presence of the DL signal or the DL channel of higher priority than the DL PRS in the PPW is determined later than the N symbols before the first symbol of the PPW, the DL signal or the DL channel is not required to be received (Keating: [0148] does not need to decode the DCI in order to determine relative priorities between PRS and PDSCH).
3. The method of claim 1, wherein in case that the presence of the DL signal or the DL channel of higher priority than the DL PRS in the PPW is determined later than the N symbols before the first symbol of the PPW, considering the DL PRS as higher priority (Keating: [0148] e.g., the PRS is highest priority over PDSCH).
[Claim 4] The method of claim 1, wherein the N is a natural number (Keating: [0135, 0160] e.g., the sufficient time, t0, one or more symbols).
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the DL PRS is determined to be a low priority (Keating: [0150] e.g., PRS is lower priority than PDCCH and URLLC PDSCH).
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the DL channel is a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and wherein the PDSCH is scheduled by the PDCCH (Keating: [0126] e.g., PDCCH/PDSCH).
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the N is predetermined value (Keating: [0135, 0160] e.g., sufficient time, one or more symbols).
Regarding claims 8-14, the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 1-7, where the difference used is a “UE” with a processor and a memory (Keating: Referring to FIG. 6, includes a processor 601, a memory 602 [0178]) 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 arid 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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