CTNF 18/839,603 CTNF 85725 DETAILED ACTION Drawings 06-37 AIA The drawings were received on 8/19/24 . These drawings are acceptable . Information Disclosure Statement The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 8/19/24 has been considered by the examiner. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101 07-04-01 AIA 07-04 35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the claim is directed towards software per se. The claim recites a computer program product comprising program code. There is no specific hardware or structure and the language is directed towards a software per se. Claim 14 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the claim is directed to a signal per se. Step 1: Does the claim as a whole fall within any statutory category? No [In the context of the flowchart in MPEP § 2106, subsection III] Claim 14 recites, “ A storage medium storing a computer program comprising program code instructions, the program code instructions causing implementation of the method according to claim 1…” Analysis: First, neither claim nor specification as whole does not provide what the storage medium is. Since the applicant fails inclusively and specifically provide antecedent basic to limit the specific statutory embodiments, “ storage medium ” belongs to the intrinsic non-statutory embodiments such as carrier signal, radio wave, light wave, and transmission medium/media. A claim whose BRI covers both statutory and non-statutory embodiments embraces subject matter that is not eligible for patent protection and therefore is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The BRI of machine readable media can encompass non-statutory transitory forms of signal transmission, such as a propagating electrical or electromagnetic signal per se. See In re Nuijten, 500 F.3d 1346, 84 USPQ2d 1495 (Fed. Cir. 2007). Since the BRI encompasses transitory forms of signal transmission, in view of the above analysis, claim 14 is ineligible for patent protection as failing to be limited to embodiments which fall within a statutory category. Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-07 AIA 07-97 12-51-07 Claim s 1-12 are allowed. Claims 1-14 are allowable over prior art since the prior art taken individually or in combination fails to particularly disclose, fairly suggests, or render obvious the following limitations: In claim 1 , … Obtaining by the application server a trajectory, a velocity and a radio communication range for each terminal; Identifying by the application server, from obtained trajectories, velocities and radio communication ranges, whether there is a space area and a corresponding time interval where at least two radio communication ranges are going to intersect; In the case where an intersection is identified, identifying by the application server whether there is a risk of collision in said time interval between packets to be sent or received by the terminals whose radio communication ranges intersect; In the case where a risk of collision is identified, generating by the application server assistance data in the form of preferred and/or non-preferred radio resources from said metric values stored in said database and transmitting the generated assistance data to at least one terminal, the metrics values corresponding to any type of data related to a wireless communication channel experienced in the given spatial area that may be useful for one terminal to adjust its communication settings in the area; and Using, by said at least one terminal, the generated assistance data transmitted by the application server for adapting radio resource reservation, the assistance data being in the form of non-preferred and/or preferred radio resources, wherein: identifying by the application server whether there is a risk of collision between packets to be sent or received by the terminals whose radio communication ranges intersect comprises identifying that there is a risk of collision in the case where said terminals whose radio communication ranges intersect have at least one identical reserved radio resources; wherein generating by the application server assistance data in the form of preferred and/or non-preferred radio resources comprises: Identifying in the database the configuration of terminals that is the closest to a current configuration of terminals; deducing a probability of interference for each radio resource from sensing data associated in the database with the identified configuration of terminals; determining the set of preferred and/or non-preferred radio resources from the probabilities of interference, the set of preferred and/or non-preferred radio resources from the probabilities of interference comprises determining a radio resource as a non-preferred radio resource in the case where said probability of interference is above a threshold value and as a preferred resource otherwise; wherein using, by said least one terminal, the generated assistance data transmitted by the application server for adapting radio resource reservation comprises selecting, for a final pool of radio resource candidates, radio resources identified as preferred resources in an initial pool of radio resource candidates or wherein using, by said least one terminal, the generated assistance data transmitted by the application server for adapting radio resource reservation comprises removing, from an initial pool of radio resource candidates, the radio resources identified as non-preferred resources .…in combination with other limitations recited as specified in Claim 1. The first closest prior art of record is Intel (WO 2017/136001). Intel teaches a resource reservation method in a private wireless communication network (Intel [0131 Fig 9, 10 a direct V2V or V2X communication method allocation scheme), comprising a set of terminals (Intel, [0118]-[0121], vehicles carrying UEs), moving along a path (Intel, [0190], moving along a same road), a set of road-side units located along the path in radio communication with the terminals (Intel, [0200], RSUs along a road communicating with vehicles), and with an application server (Intel, [0021], a server computer, RSU server [0110]), being connected to a database associating with each configuration of terminals in a given spatial area values representative of how radio resources are used in said given spatial area (Intel, [0132], controller configured to geo based mapping between geo coordinates connected to a application server), obtaining a trajectory, velocity and a radio communication range for each terminal (Intel [0248], controller is configured to discover speed analyze trajectory and a [0167] target V2V communication range), identify whether there is space area and a corresponding time interval where ranges are going to intersect (Intel, [0249] select another resource when a collision is predicted), generate assistance information where a risk of collision is identified (Intel, [0249] select another resource when a collision is predicted), and adapting the radio resource (Intel, [0249][0124], transmit on other resources to reduce risk of collision). Intel does not teach the italicized limitations above . The second closest prior art of record is Nokia (“Discussion of Resource Allocation for Sidelink – Mode 1”, 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Meeting #98bis, R1-1910513, Oct 14-20, 2019), as disclosed in the IDS. Nokia teaches a resource reservation method in a private wireless communication network (Nokia, Section 2, a resource allocation mode for V2X), comprising a set of terminals (Nokia, 2.1, a set of UE) , gathering UE assistance information based on geographic information of the UE ( (Nokia, 2.1, geographic characteristics of a UE are gathered for assistance information in resource allocation) , controlling resource allocation from preconfigured resource pools to combat the potential collisions of multiple transmitters (Nokia, 2.3, gNB coordinates selections of transmitters to reuse the same resources using the information) . Nokia does not teach the italicized limitations above . Thus, Intel and Nokia taken individually or in combination fails to particularly disclose, fairly suggest, or render obvious the above italic limitations as claimed. For these reasons, in conjunction with the other limitations of the independent claims, puts this case in condition for allowance. Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Tang et al (Pub No: 2019/0159073) [0095]-[0164] . Cho et al (Pub No: 2023/019948) [0015]-[0032] Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to AFSHAWN M TOWFIGHI whose telephone number is (571)270-7296. The examiner can normally be reached M-F 8:00 AM -5:00 PM. Examiner interviews are available via telephone, in-person, and video conferencing using a USPTO supplied web-based collaboration tool. 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