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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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Claim Objections
Claims 1-8, 10, and 11 are objected to because of the following informalities:
1. (Proposed Amendment) A method for regulating network connection requests , the method comprising:
setting a delay time and current credibility for a User Equipment (UE) initiating a network connection request to a current base station for the first time;
discarding the network connection request initiated by the UE to the current base station for the first time, and replying to the UE with an indication message which indicates the UE to initiate another network connection request after the delay time; and
in response to receiving a network connection request initiated by the UE each time within the delay time, or detecting abnormal network connection request behavior initiated by the UE, reducing the current credibility of the UE according to a preset rule, and determining a probability of discarding the network connection request initiated by the UE according to the current credibility.
2. (Proposed Amendment) The regulation method of claim 1, wherein the regulation method is active only during a period when the current base station detects a flooding attack based on the network connection request.
3. (Proposed Amendment) The regulation method of claim 1, wherein the step of setting [[a]] the delay time and current credibility for [[a]] the UE initiating [[a]] the network connection request to [[a]] the current base station for the first time comprises:
in response to receiving the network connection request initiated by the current UE, extracting an identity of the current UE;
in response to the identity of the current UE not matching stored historical UE identities, determining that the current UE initiates the network connection request to the current base station for the first time; and
setting the delay time and the current credibility for the current UE, the current credibility being set to a maximum preset credibility value.
6. (Proposed Amendment) The regulation method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining [[a]] the probability of discarding the network connection request initiated by the UE according to the current credibility comprises:
randomly selecting a value between a maximum preset credibility value and a minimum preset credibility value as a target value; and
in response to the target value exceeding a range defined by the current credibility of the UE and the minimum preset credibility value, discarding the network connection request.
10. (Proposed Amendment) A controller, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory configured to communicate with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, and the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the regulation method of claim 1.
11. (Proposed Amendment) A non-transitory computer-readable storage mediumcomprising computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the regulation method of claim 1.
Claims 4-5 and 7-8 depend either directly or indirectly from claim 1, therefore they are also objected.
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.
Claims 1-8, 10, and 11 are 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.
Claim 1 (lines 8-9) recites the steps of “detecting abnormal network connection request behavior initiated by the UE, reducing the current credibility of the UE according to a preset rule”, however, the phrases “according to a preset rule” and “abnormal network connection request behavior” are vague and indefinite because the specification (description) appears not clearly define exactly what those rules are and how abnormal behavior is measured.
Claim 3, lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9, the phrase “the current UE” lacks antecedent basis.
Claims 2, 4-8, 10, and 11 depend either directly or indirectly from claim 1, therefore they are also rejected.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-8, 10, and 11 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the objection(s) set forth in this Office action.
Claims 1-8, 10, and 11 would be allowable if rewritten or amended 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Ranganathan relates to a method for determining the predicted estimated time of arrival and an estimated departure time of a mobile wireless device to and from a particular base station service area, a corresponding segment of streaming information is preemptively sent to the multi-mobile streaming information network cache memory of the predicted base station, in addition, an estimated time of arrival is also sent to the same base station and multi-mobile streaming information network cache memory. In the case where the mobile wireless device does not arrive at the particular base station service area within a set time after the indicated estimated time of arrival (e.g., non-arrival), the corresponding segment of streaming information is discarded or purged from the associated multi-mobile streaming information network cache memory. In other embodiments, the estimated time of arrival is not sent, but rather the sending of the segment of streaming information is delayed until an appropriate time before the estimated time of arrival where, after arrival, the segment of streaming information simply expires after a set period of time has elapsed without the arrival (non-arrival) of the mobile wireless device, and after such time the segment of streaming information is discarded or purged from the associated multi-mobile streaming information network cache memory or memories.
Huang et al. relates to a method for requesting LTE RRC connection re-establishment and setting cause values as well as a terminal, and the connection re-establishment request method includes: an LTE terminal determines, according to the occurred scenario, which one of the following four types is the failure reason: radio resource failure, handoff failure, bottom layer error or UE-related error; and the LTE terminal initiates an RRC connection re-establishment request to the network side, wherein the RRC connection re-establishment request includes the failure cause value indicating the failure reason.
Basu Mallick et al. relates to method and system include a connection re-establishment request message is transmitted to a target base station associated with a target cell when a handover failure is detected. Then, a connection re-establishment response message is received from the target base station. Furthermore, a connection re-establishment complete message is transmitted to the target base station upon successful re-establishment of the wireless connection between the user equipment and the target base station, where the connection re-establishment complete message includes an indication of availability of measurement information associated with the handover failure with the user equipment. Additionally, a request to transmit the measurement information is received from the target base station. Moreover, the measurement information (e.g., radio conditions, RAT type, etc.) is transmitted to the target base station.
Vargantwar et al. relates to a mobile device that identifies a failure scenario for previously-failed radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment requests, from the mobile device, in a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network. The mobile device, or server, monitors real-time context data for a match with the failure scenario and applies preemptive settings for an upcoming RRC connection re-establishment attempt in response to identifying a match with the failure scenario. The preemptive settings are configured to maintain an active session between the mobile device and the LTE network.
JINNU et al. relates to a UE partially exchanging a first signaling-related message associated with a first UE configuration with a network entity and triggering a state transition message that initiates a change to a second UE configuration different from the first UE configuration. In an aspect, the UE determines that the first message has not been successfully received or successfully transmitted. In an aspect, the UE sends an indication message to coordinate discarding of the first message with the network entity and receives, after sending the indication message, a second signaling-related message associated with the second UE configuration. In another aspect, the UE, after partially sending a signaling-related message, receives a reconfiguration request associated with a second UE configuration. In an aspect, the UE determines that the message has not been successfully transmitted and causes a reconfiguration failure.
You et al. relates to a terminal device which sends first indication information when connection establishment between the terminal device and a first target network device is successful, the first indication information is for indicating to a source network device that connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device is successful, sends a second indication information when connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device fails, where the second indication information is for indicating to the source network device that connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device fails.
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/Young T. Tse/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632
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