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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 .
Specification
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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:
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.
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) 1-13, and 16-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Chatterjee et al. (US 2021/0203449 A1) in view of Tseng et al. (US 2022/0078697 A1). Regarding claims 1, 7, 13, Chatterjee et al. discloses a method, implemented in a user equipment (UE) communicating with a radio access network (RAN) node, for monitoring a downlink control channel during a random access small data transmission (RA-SDT) session(See Fig 1 items 110 and 101, Para 23-26), the method comprising: receiving, at the UE and from the RAN node, a random access procedure message including a temporary identifier for the UE; monitoring, at the UE and during the RA-SDT session, the downlink control channel using the temporary identifier (See Fig 1 items 110 and 101, Para 23-26. Para 60, and Para 208 teaches UE receiving a C-RNTI and monitoring PDCCH for RA-SDT procedure). Chatterjee et al. does not disclose a method, wherein receiving, at the UE and from the RAN node, an indication to end the RA-SDT session; responsive to the receiving of the indication, stopping, at the UE, the monitoring of the downlink control channel using the temporary identifier; and responsive to the receiving of the indication, retaining the temporary identifier. However Tseng et al. discloses a method, wherein receiving, at the UE and from the RAN node, an indication to end the RA-SDT session; responsive to the receiving of the indication, stopping, at the UE, the monitoring of the downlink control channel using the temporary identifier (Para 233-237 teaches of receiving a message and terminating the RA-SDT procedure.); and responsive to the receiving of the indication, retaining the temporary identifier (Para 236 teaches of UE preforming CG-SDT procedure with the same C-RNTI ). It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to use the method of sending signaling to a UE to terminate a RA-SDT procedure of Tseng et al. with the system of Chatterjee et al. in order to provide a system that reduces network congestion by clearing random access queues from idle devices that finished small payload burst. Regarding claims 2, 8, 16, Chatterjee et al. discloses a method, the method further comprising: receiving, at the UE and from the RAN node, downlink control information (DCI) using the temporary identifier; wherein the monitoring of the downlink control channel includes: monitoring the downlink control channel according to the DCI(See Fig 1 items 110 and 101, Para 23-26. Para 60, and Para 208 teaches UE receiving a RNTI and monitoring PDCCH for RA-SDT procedure). Regarding claims 3, 9, 17, Tseng et al. discloses a method, the method further comprising: responsive to the receiving of the indication, releasing the temporary identifier (Para 233-237 teaches of receiving a message and terminating the RA-SDT procedure. Para 236 teaches UE preforming CG-SDT procedure with the same C-RNTI or a new C-RNTI). Motivation to combine is the same as indicated in claim 1 above. Regarding claims 4, 10, 18, Chatterjee et al. discloses a method, wherein the temporary network identifier is a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) (See Fig 1 items 110 and 101, Para 23-26. Para 60, and Para 208 teach UE receiving a C-RNTI and monitoring PDCCH for RA-SDT procedure). Regarding claims 5, 11, 19, Tseng et al. discloses a method, wherein the temporary identifier is a first temporary identifier, and the method further comprises: monitoring, after the stopping, the downlink control channel using a second temporary identifier (Para 233-237 teaches of receiving a message and terminating the RA-SDT procedure. Para 236 teaches UE preforming CG-SDT procedure with the same C-RNTI or a new C-RNTI). Motivation to combine is the same as indicated in claim 1 above. Regarding claims 6, 12, 20, Tseng et al. discloses a method, wherein the second temporary identifier is a paging radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI) (Para 357 teaches Monitoring Short Messages transmitted with P-RNTI over DCI).
Conclusion
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/AJAY CATTUNGAL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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