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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 21, 29, and 35 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by SHI et al. (US 20240314775).
Regarding claims 21, 29, and 35, SHI teaches sending an uplink reference signal to an access network device based on a sending pattern (Fig. 2, Steps S210 and S220), wherein an uplink reference signal resource of the uplink reference signal comprises N ports, the N ports in the sending pattern comprises at least two groups of ports, each of the group of ports corresponds to a same time-frequency resource (Fig. 6 and Fig. 7), different groups of the groups of ports respectively correspond to different time-frequency resources (Fig. 6 and Fig. 7), the N ports in the sending pattern are carried on two or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, orthe N ports in the sending pattern are carried on two or more frequency domain combs ([0093] The comb of the first frequency domain resource group, the comb of the second frequency domain resource group, the comb of the third frequency domain resource group, and the comb of the fourth frequency domain resource group may be different from each other) and one OFDM symbol, and N is an integer greater than 4 ([0066] the quantity of ports of the first SRS resource may be 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 16); and
receiving precoding indication information from the access network device (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3), wherein the precoding indication information indicates precoding for transmitting uplink data, the precoding indication information is obtained by the access network device based on the uplink reference signal, and rows of a matrix corresponding to the precoding are in one-to-one correspondence with the N ports ([0056] The precoding matrix may be indicated by using a transmitted precoding matrix indicator (TPMI). The TPMI corresponds to an SRS resource indicated by the SRI. For example, an antenna port used in uplink data transmission by using the TPMI is the same as a port of the SRS resource).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 22-28, 30-34, and 36-40 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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/EUNSOOK CHOI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2467
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