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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
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.
Claims 1, 5, 9, 17, 20 and 30 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Timo et al. (US 20240275519).
Regarding claims 1, 17 and 30, Timo teaches obtaining capability information reported by a user equipment (UE), the capability information being configured to indicate at least one of an artificial intelligence (Al) supporting capability or a machine learning (ML) supporting capability ([0001] the network decoder and/or UE encoder use artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) techniques) of the UE (Fig. 7, 710 and [0151] where the RAN node can receive, from each of the one or more UEs, an indication of UE DL channel feedback encoding capabilities);
generating an encoder model and a decoder model based on the capability information; and sending model information of the encoder model to the UE, the model information of the encoder model being configured to deploy the encoder model (Fig. 7, 715 and [0150] the RAN node can send the one or more configurations to the one or more UEs. Each configuration includes the following: … an identifier of one of the UE encoders).
Regarding claims 5 and 20, Timo teaches wherein the model information of the encoder model comprises at least one of following information: a first model information indicating a kind of the encoder model; or a second model information indicating a model parameter of the encoder model ([0150] the RAN node can send the one or more configurations to the one or more UEs. Each configuration includes the following: … an identifier of one of the UE encoders).
Regarding claim 9, Timo teaches updating the encoder model and the decoder model to generate an updated encoder model and an updated decoder model ([0106]-[0109] The network can then deploy the trained decoder in the network to operate as needed with the UE encoder, which may be given a unique identifier that is known to both UE and network).
3. (Canceled)
8. (Canceled)
14. (Canceled)
16. (Canceled)
19. (Canceled)
23. (Canceled)
25. (Canceled)
27-29. (Canceled)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 4, 6, 7, 10-13, 15, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26 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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/EUNSOOK CHOI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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