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 § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim 18 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because computer program per se is merely a set of instructions capable being executed by a computer. Computer program or software per se does not fall into one of the four statutory categories of invention, namely, a process, machine, manufacture, or a composition of matter. Therefore, computer program or software per se is considered non-statutory subject matter.
Since the specification does not exclude carrier wave from computer readable storage medium and it is known in the art that computer readable storage medium could be carrier wave, it would be reasonable to interpret the claimed computer readable storage medium as to cover carrier wave which is considered as nonstatutory subject matter. The examiner suggests modifying the phrase “computer readable storage medium" to be “non-transitory computer readable storage medium” to overcome the rejection.
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) 1-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Chen et al. (WO 2021/253207, hereinafter Chen).
Regarding claims 1, 3,Chen discloses a method (Figs. 6,8) for wireless communications, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device from a base station, a signaling message scheduling one or more transmissions associated with an extended reality application([0083]-[0097], which recites the base station transmit a CG configuration message to the UE ); and performing the one or more transmissions based on the signaling message([0083]-[0097], which recites the XR UE determines the HARQ process configuration associated with configuration activation/deactivation signal ).
Regarding claims 2,4, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, comprising: receiving, by the terminal device, a second signaling message at a higher layer, the second signaling message including information indicating traffic associated with the extended reality application([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 5, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the signaling message includes a field configured to indicate more than four monitoring adaptation options for the one or more transmissions([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 6, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the signaling message is configured to schedule multiple transmissions associated with the extended reality application([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 7, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the signaling message comprises information indicating one or more frequency-domain locations, each frequency-domain location configured for one of the one or more transmissions associated with the extended reality application([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 8, Chen discloses the method of claim 7, wherein the information comprises one or more offsets from a frequency domain resource([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 9, Chen discloses the method of claim 7, wherein the information comprises one or more hopping locations from a frequency domain resource([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 10, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the signaling message includes a bit field indicating that a preconfigured Configured Grant called CG or Semi-Persistent Scheduling SPS resource is ignored or skipped([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 11, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein the signaling message includes group information indicating a number of groups that multiple transmissions are organized into([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 12, Chen discloses the method of claim 11, wherein the group information includes one or more values indicating multiple time-domain durations, and wherein a subset of transmissions located in one of the multiple time-domain durations is categorized as a group([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 13, Chen discloses the method of claim 11, wherein the group information comprises a number of bits indicating a number of groups([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 14, Chen discloses the method of claim 11, wherein the group information comprises a number of bits indicating a number of transmissions in a group([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 15, Chen discloses the method of claim 11, wherein a reduced number of bits is configured to indicate scheduling information for a subset of the multiple transmissions in a same group([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 16, Chen discloses the method of claim 15, wherein the scheduling information comprises an indicator indicating a last group of transport blocks for the multiple transmissions, a Start and Length Indicator called SLIV for a time-domain allocation of the multiple transmissions, a redundancy version indicator, a new data indicator, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request called HARQ process number, or a modulation and coding scheme([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 17, Chen discloses the method of claim 1, wherein multiple transmissions are configured for multiple media flows of the extended reality application([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 18, Chen discloses a communication apparatus (Fig. 8), comprising a processor (280) configured to implement a method of claim 1([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 19, Chen discloses a computer program product (Fig. 8, 282) having code stored thereon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method of claim 1([0083]-[0097]).
Regarding claim 20, Chen discloses the method of claim 3, wherein the signaling message includes a field configured to indicate more than four monitoring adaptation options for the one or more transmissions([0083]-[0097]).
Conclusion
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/DADY CHERY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2418
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