Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1, 17, and 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Tao WO 2026031102 in view of Park US 20160381539.
Regarding claim 1, 17, 20, Tao teaches an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and, based at least in part on information stored in the at least one memory, the at least one processor, individually or in any combination, is configured to cause the UE to:
transmit a first request for turning on on-demand synchronization signal block (OD-SSB) of a candidate network energy saving (NES) cell, and
communicate with the candidate NES cell or an anchor cell for the candidate NES cell based on an availability of the candidate NES cell (In Release 19 (R19), to achieve network energy saving (NES), in carrier aggregation (CA) scenarios, connected-mode user equipment (UE) can be configured to support on-demand signal request (OD-SSB) operations, such as OD-SSB SCell operations. In OD-SSB, the UE can request an SSB from the network side when needed, and the network side sends an SSB based on the UE's request, thereby reducing the number of SSBs sent by network devices and achieving network energy saving).
Tao is silent on wherein the first request comprises location information of the UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle or inactive state.
Park teaches the UE transmitting a request comprising location information of the UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state (Likewise, when the UE in the RRC idle state transmits location of the UE itself to the base station so that the base station may keep the latest location information of the UE, this is called a tracking area update (TAU), [0099]).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of Tao by the UE transmitting a request comprising location information of the UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, as shown by Park. This modification would benefit the system by the UE informing the base of its current location.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-16, 18, and 19 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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/RONALD B ABELSON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2476
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