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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112(b)
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.
Claims 16-20 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Re claims 16-20, the system needs combination of elements (processor, memory, module, interface) to disclose sufficient structure for the claimed system.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-15 are allowed.
The following is an examiner's statement for reasons for allowance.
Claims 1 and 13 are allowable over the prior art of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fail to particularly teach or fairly suggest receiving a message comprising information about an MBS service area from an application function network element, wherein the message is for requesting to allocate an identifier of a multicast/broadcast service (MBS) session, sending a message comprising information about an MBS service area to a network repository function network element, wherein the message is for requesting the network repository function network element to discover a multicast/broadcast session management function (MB-SMF) network element; and receiving, from the network repository function network element, a response message comprising information about a target MB-SMF network element, the target MB-SMF network element supports the MBS service area, and the target MB-SMF network element is configured to create the MBS session.
Conclusion
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/HONG S CHO/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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