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) 26 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 as being anticipated by Fang US 20180288706
26. (New) An apparatus for a user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a New Radio (NR) network, the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry to: decode a low-power wake-up signal (LP-WUS) received from a base station, the LP-WUS being received by a low-power wake-up receiver (LP-WUR) of the UE that is different from a main receiver of the UE (Fang: [0016] packet 128 as sent by AP 102 may be addressed to LP-WUR 112 of STA 108 to signal to LP-WUR to wake up its associated main 802.11 radio system so that the main radio system(s) can subsequently receive user data packets sent by AP 102, and specifically sent by radio system 104 of AP 102); and
cause a wake-up of the main receiver, based on a configuration of the LP-WUS (Fang: [0016] FIG. 1 by way of a signal connection 114 corresponding respectively to a connection between LP-WUR 112 and radio system 110a wake-up signal to be sent from the LP-WUR to its main radio system to wake up the main radio system for reception of data packets); and
a memory coupled to the processing circuitry and configured to store the configuration of the LP-WUS (Fang: the CP length value for the last packet by the main radio system being stored in a buffer or memory of the LP-WUR for later use).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 27, 32-35 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Fang US 20180288706 in view of Ang US 20190320493 (from IDS filed by Applicant)
27. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the main receiver is in a sleep mode based on discontinuous reception (DRX) operation of the UE (Ang: [0034] place the primary receiver in a low power state (e.g., powered-off or inactive) while operating in a DRX mode).
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Fang’s invention in order to enable and provide power efficient wireless communication as well as aiding in enabling latency capable of supporting latency for critical applications for enhanced user experience, as taught by Ang.
32. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the LP-WUS includes an indication that the LP-WUS is related to the UE (Fang: fig. 1, unit 128; Ang: [0086-0088] the wake-up signaling indicates that the UER should activate the primary receiver).
33. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the LP-WUS is transmitted periodically by the base station (Fang: [0016, 0040] packets; Ang: [0085] UE monitor for the signal (wake-up) from serving eNB).
34. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the LP-WUR does not have wireless data- transmit functionality, and the main receiver has wireless data-transmit functionality (Fang: [0017, 0044] the LP-WU functionality would include functionality necessary to receive and decode LP-WU packets to wake up a main radio system in the AP, but may not necessarily include the ability of the radio system to transmit LP-WU packets; Ang: [0085-0088] the UE place the primary receiver (full-power receiver) is designed to demodulate a dedicated waveform).
35. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, further comprising: transceiver circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry; and two or more antennas coupled to the transceiver circuitry (Fang: fig. 3, unit 300; Ang: [0085-0088] fig. 12, unit 1216).
Claim(s) 28-33 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Fang US 20180288706 in view of Hou CN 113473578 (from IDS filed by Applicant)
28. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the processing circuitry is further to facilitate, via the main receiver, subsequent to the wake-up of the main receiver based on the LP-WUS, cell selection (Hou: [0107-0108] the network device sends WUS when it needs to wake up the terminal, the terminal equipment can also perform radio resource management measurement according to the WUS, and can be used for cell selection and cell reselection of the terminal equipment).
Thus, it would have been obvious to one skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claim invention to include the above recited limitation into Fang’s invention in order to improve unnecessary information detection may cause power consumption waste of the terminal equipment, as taught by Hou.
29. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the processing circuitry is further to facilitate, via the main receiver, subsequent to the wake-up of the main receiver based on the LP-WUS, paging reception (Hou: [0005, 0073], the terminal device receives the paging DCI according to the WUS, the paging DCI indicates that the system is updated, the terminal device will receive the updated system information after receiving the paging DCI (indicating system information update)).
30. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the processing circuitry is further to facilitate, via the main receiver, subsequent to the wake-up of the main receiver based on the LP-WUS, SIB reception (Hou: [0005, 0073], the terminal device receives the paging DCI according to the WUS, the paging DCI indicates that the system is updated, the terminal device will receive the updated system information after receiving the paging DCI (indicating system information update)).
31. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the processing circuitry is further to facilitate, via the main receiver, subsequent to the wake-up of the main receiver based on the LP-WUS, downlink (DL) synchronization (Hou: [0107] the terminal device performs time-frequency synchronization via WUS).
32. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the LP-WUS includes an indication that the LP-WUS is related to the UE (Fang: fig. 1, unit 128; Hou: [0086-0088] the wake-up signaling indicates that the UER should activate the primary receiver).
33. (New) The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the LP-WUS is transmitted periodically by the base station (Fang: [0016, 0040] packets; Ang: [0085] the terminal device can detect the WUS according to the preset period).
Regarding claims 36-49, the independent claim and each dependent claim are related to the same limitation set for hereinabove in claims 26-35, where the difference used is a “non-transitory computer-readable storage medium” 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 and interchanging the wording did not introduce new limitations to these claims. Therefore, these claims were rejected for similar reasons as stated above.
Remark:
The examiner stresses that the claims are too broad and require detail or specialization of the steps as recited in the claims. Alone and as claimed, the limitations are too open.
Examiner has cited particular portions of the references as applied to each claim limitation for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant in preparing responses, to fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
In addition, an interview could expedite the prosecution.
Conclusion
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/SULAIMAN NOORISTANY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2415
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