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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 28-32, 34-38 and 40-44 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by ABDELGHAFFAR et al PG PUB 2025/0203427.
Re Claims 28, 34 and 40, ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches in figure 7A, a UE 120 (an apparatus comprising a memory, code and processor) receiving a Doppler measurement report configuration 702 from network entity 701 [0095] wherein based on the configuration, the UE obtains Doppler domain information by measuring time correlation (time variations) of a channel from TRS [0085 0086]; the UE reporting the Doppler domain information and CSI report associated with CSI-RS [0087] and precoder matrix based on the CSI [0121].
Re Claims 29, 35, 41, ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches in figure 7A, the UE 120 receiving a Doppler measurement report configuration 702 ( first configuration) from network entity 701 [0095] to report the time correlation (time variations) of a channel calculated from the TRS [0085 0086].
Re Claims 30, 36, 42, ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches the Doppler domain measurements in a subband fashion [0121].
Re Claims 31, 37, 43, ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches the doppler measurement report associated with DFT based codebook components [0087 0121].
Re Claims 32, 38, 44. ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches the TRS report and CSI report are reported separately [0151].
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:
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.
Claims 33, 39 and 45 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over ABDELGHAFFAR et al PG PUB 2025/0203427 in view of RAMIREDDY et al PG PUB 2022/0029676.
Re Claims 33, 39, 45, ABDELGHAFFAR et al teaches the CSI reporting associated with a precoders for a layer across PMI subbands [0096 0121]. ABDELGHAFFAR et al fails to explicitly teach “…reported for each layer of PMI reported in the CSI.”. However, RAMIREDDY et al teaches based on a report configuration, measurements on CSI-RS can be reported for each layer of PMI [0268] to that SNR at each data streams associated with the layers can be calculated. One skilled in the art would have been motivated to have calculated the SNR/measurements at each layer of the PMI reported in the CSI for selecting the precoding matrix with high SNR. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one skilled in the art to have combined the teachings.
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