DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Status of the claims
Claims 1 – 11 were originally filed in the application.
With the amendment filed on December 18, 2024, Applicant have:
Amended claims 5, 6, 10, and 11.
Added new claims 12 – 16.
Claims 1 – 16 are pending in the application.
Claim Objections
Applicant is advised that should claim 7 be found allowable, claim 16 will be objected to under 37 CFR 1.75 as being a substantial duplicate thereof. When two claims in an application are duplicates or else are so close in content that they both cover the same thing, despite a slight difference in wording, it is proper after allowing one claim to object to the other as being a substantial duplicate of the allowed claim. See MPEP § 608.01(m).
Claim 16 is duplicate of claim 7.
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.
Claim 4 – 7, and 14 – 16 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 5 recites the limitation "the first number" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 6 recites the limitation "the first number" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 14 recites the limitation "the first number" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 15 recites the limitation "the first number" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 7 and 16 are inherently rejected as being depended on above rejected claims.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1, 4, 8, 10 – 13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Bala et al (US 2019/0097859).
Regarding claim 1, Bala et al teach a signal transmission method (see figure 7), the method being applied by a sending end (see figure 6 and 7) and comprising: determining a first-type subcarrier set (see figure 7, component 780 data subcarriers) and a second-type subcarrier set among transmission symbols (see figure 7, component 785 and component 760, 740, and 750 and figure 9, paragraph 0114 “the data signal may be mapped to sets of subcarriers 980 and 987 and the UW/SI signal may be mapped to another set of subcarriers 985”), wherein a second-type subcarrier carries a generated target signal (see figure 7, UW “unique word”), a signal on a sample point of a sequence obtained from superposition of a time-domain sequence corresponding to the target signal and a time-domain sequence (see figure 7, combining the signals) corresponding to a communication signal carried by a first-type subcarrier satisfies a preset feature (see figure 7, preset feature can be defined and the transmitted signal 760 and paragraph 100, 101, 104 “resources allocated to UW-SRS transmission”); and sending the communication signal and the target signal carried by the transmission symbols to a receiving end (see figure 6 and 7).
Regarding claim 4, which inherits the limitations of claim 1, Bala et al further teach wherein the signal that satisfies the preset feature comprises one of the following: a linear frequency modulated signal, a constant amplitude zero autocorrelation signal, a signal having a cyclic prefix, a cyclic prefix extension of a first symbol after the transmission symbols, a cyclic suffix extension of a first symbol before the transmission symbols, or an all-zero signal (see figure 7, “Zero-tail”, paragraph 0094, paragraph 0071, 0143, “cyclic prefix” figure 13, figure 8B, paragraph 107 “Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence”).
Regarding claim 8, Bala et al teach a signal transmission method (see figure 6), the method being applied by a receiving end (see figure 6) and comprising: receiving a communication signal and a target signal carried by transmission symbols and sent by a sending end (see figure 6 and 7), wherein the transmission symbols comprise a first-type subcarrier set (see figure 7, component 780 data subcarriers) and a second-type subcarrier set(see figure 7, component 785 and component 760, 740, and 750 and figure 9, paragraph 0114 “the data signal may be mapped to sets of subcarriers 980 and 987 and the UW/SI signal may be mapped to another set of subcarriers 985”), and a second-type subcarrier in the second-type subcarrier set carries such a generated target signal (see figure 7, UW “unique word”) that a signal on a sample point of a sequence obtained from superposition (see figure 7, combining the signals) of a time-domain sequence corresponding to the target signal and a time-domain sequence corresponding to the communication signal carried by a first-type subcarrier in the first-type subcarrier set satisfies a preset feature (see figure 7, preset feature can be defined and the transmitted signal 760 and paragraph 100, 101, 104 “resources allocated to UW-SRS transmission” subcarriers allocated to UW transmission).
Regarding claim 10, the claimed communication device including the features corresponds to subject matter mentioned above in the rejection of claim 1 is applicable hereto.
Regarding claim 11, the claimed communication device including the features corresponds to subject matter mentioned above in the rejection of claim 1 is applicable hereto.
Regarding claim 12, the claimed communication device including the features corresponds to subject matter mentioned above in the rejection of claim 8 is applicable hereto.
Regarding claim 13, the claimed communication device including the features corresponds to subject matter mentioned above in the rejection of claim 8 is applicable hereto.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 3 and 9 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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JAISON . JOSEPH
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2633
/JAISON JOSEPH/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2633
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