DETAILED ACTION
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 Objections
Claims 1-30 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Regarding claim 1, line 12, the term “the dropped PRACH” should be changed to “the dropped uplink PRACH”. Similar issue exists in claims 9, 17, 25.
Depending claims 2-8, 10-16, 18-24, 26-30 are objected to by virtue of their dependency on a based claim.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 8 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 8, line 1, the term “the threshold duration” has no antecedent basis.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-7, 9-30 are allowed. The prior art of record fails to disclose the feature to receive a downlink transmission, which at least partially overlaps with the uplink PRACH transmission, in the particular time resource, wherein the uplink PRACH transmission is dropped to receive the downlink transmission in the particular time resource, and wherein whether a quantity of configured PRACH transmissions includes the dropped PRACH transmission is based at least in part on a parameter, as recited in claim 1 and similarly recited in claims 9, 17, 25.
Claim 8 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Abdul Latheef et al. (Pub No.: 2026/0129529) discloses a wireless device transmits, to a base station, a capability parameter per frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands on which the wireless device operates, wherein each capability parameter indicates whether the wireless device supports parallel transmissions of an uplink signal via a serving cell overlapping with a physical random access channel (PRACH) via a candidate cell for layer 1 and/or layer 2 triggered mobility (LTM) for the corresponding frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands.
Xiong et al. (Pub No.: 2023/0224880) discloses various embodiments herein provide techniques for downlink and uplink resource mapping for full duplex communication, e.g., non-overlapping sub-band-full duplex (NOSB-FD) communication that includes a frequency resource for uplink communication and a frequency resource for downlink communication. Also described are techniques for user equipment (UE) behavior associated with a non-cell defining synchronization signal block (NCD-SSB). Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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