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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.
Claims 7-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Koskela et al. (US 20230037605 A1).
Considering claim 7, Koskela teaches a terminal comprising:
a receiver that receives an indication of one or more active transmission configuration indication (TCI) states (Fig.1-5, [0020], [0022] UE 104 receives, via, the DCI, an indication of a TCI codepoint activation, and this codepoint indicates that the TCI state being activated); and
a processor (20) that controls reception of a first downlink channel related to at least one of paging, a short message, and system information in a control resource set with index 0 (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring… For example, the methods herein may apply for all CORESETs or the CORESET #0 (CORESET ID 0) may be excluded. CORESET ID 0 refers to a special CORESET used for monitoring (e.g., system information broadcast signaling in the cell), [0045]),
wherein the processor (20) controls not to receive the first downlink channel when a TCI state for the control resource set is indicated, a number of the one or more active TCI states is one (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring based on the PCIs, wherein only one PCI value is considered to be active for monitoring of the PDCCH. For example, the one PCI value for monitoring purposes may be determined based on for example, the lowest, highest, specific, and/or configured CORESET ID…ignored for the PDCCH monitoring, [0045]), and
the one TCI state is associated with a second physical cell ID (PCI) different from a first PCI of a serving cell (Fig.1-5, [0034], [0036] different PCI than the current PCI).
Considering claim 8, Koskela teaches a radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:
receiving an indication of one or more active transmission configuration indication (TCI) states (Fig.1-5, [0020], [0022] UE 104 receives, via, the DCI, an indication of a TCI codepoint activation, and this codepoint indicates that the TCI state being activated);
controlling reception of a first downlink channel related to at least one of paging, a short message, and system information in a control resource set with index 0 (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring… For example, the methods herein may apply for all CORESETs or the CORESET #0 (CORESET ID 0) may be excluded. CORESET ID 0 refers to a special CORESET used for monitoring (e.g., system information broadcast signaling in the cell), [0045]); and
controlling not to receive the first downlink channel when a TCI state for the control resource set is indicated, a number of the one or more active TCI states is one (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring based on the PCIs, wherein only one PCI value is considered to be active for monitoring of the PDCCH. For example, the one PCI value for monitoring purposes may be determined based on for example, the lowest, highest, specific, and/or configured CORESET ID…ignored for the PDCCH monitoring, [0045]), and
the one TCI state is associated with a second physical cell ID (PCI) different from a first PCI of a serving cell (Fig.1-5, [0034], [0036] different PCI than the current PCI).
Considering claim 9, Koskela teaches a base station comprising:
a transmitter (14) that transmits an indication of one or more active transmission configuration indication (TCI) states (Fig.1-5, [0020], [0022] UE 104 receives, via, the DCI, an indication of a TCI codepoint activation, and this codepoint indicates that the TCI state being activated); and
a processor (20) that controls transmission of a first downlink channel related to at least one of paging, a short message, and system information in a control resource set with index 0 (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring… For example, the methods herein may apply for all CORESETs or the CORESET #0 (CORESET ID 0) may be excluded. CORESET ID 0 refers to a special CORESET used for monitoring (e.g., system information broadcast signaling in the cell), [0045]),
wherein the processor controls not to transmit the first downlink channel when a TCI state for the control resource set is indicated, a number of the one or more active TCI states is one (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring based on the PCIs, wherein only one PCI value is considered to be active for monitoring of the PDCCH. For example, the one PCI value for monitoring purposes may be determined based on for example, the lowest, highest, specific, and/or configured CORESET ID…ignored for the PDCCH monitoring, [0045]), and
the one TCI state is associated with a second physical cell ID (PCI) different from a first PCI of a serving cell (Fig.1-5, [0034], [0036] different PCI than the current PCI).
Considering claim 10, Koskela teaches a system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein the terminal comprises:
a receiver (16) that receives an indication of one or more active transmission configuration indication (TCI) states (Fig.1-5, [0020], [0022] UE 104 receives, via, the DCI, an indication of a TCI codepoint activation, and this codepoint indicates that the TCI state being activated); and
a processor that controls reception of a first downlink channel related to at least one of paging, a short message, and system information in a control resource set with index 0 (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring… For example, the methods herein may apply for all CORESETs or the CORESET #0 (CORESET ID 0) may be excluded. CORESET ID 0 refers to a special CORESET used for monitoring (e.g., system information broadcast signaling in the cell)),
wherein the processor controls not to receive the first downlink channel when a TCI state for the control resource set is indicated, a number of the one or more active TCI states is one (Fig.1-5, [0034] UE may determine TCI state monitoring based on the PCIs, wherein only one PCI value is considered to be active for monitoring of the PDCCH. For example, the one PCI value for monitoring purposes may be determined based on for example, the lowest, highest, specific, and/or configured CORESET ID…ignored for the PDCCH monitoring), and
the one TCI state is associated with a second physical cell ID (PCI) different from a first PCI of a serving cell (Fig.1-5, [0034], [0036] different PCI than the current PCI), and
the base station (gNB, Fig.1A) comprises:
a transmitter (14) that transmits the indication of the one or more active TCI states (Fig.1-5, [0020], [0022] UE 104 receives, via, the DCI, an indication of a TCI codepoint activation, and this codepoint indicates that the TCI state being activated).
Conclusion
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/KHAI M NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2641
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