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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 § 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)(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) 1-2, and 19-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Xu et al. (US Application 2022/0303730, hereinafter Xu).
Regarding claims 1, 19,20,Xu discloses a method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium (Figs. 3,4,8-11) for retransmission detection of a data packet, comprising: at least one processor (302,404) and a memory(3036,350,460,450); the memory stores a computer-executable instruction; and the at least one processor executes the computer-executable instruction stored in the memory, such that the at least one processor is enabled ([0063]-[0070], which recites the SOC 300 may include processor(s) 302 which may execute program instructions for the UE 106 and display circuitry 304 which may perform graphics processing and provide display signals to the display 360) to:
receiving the data packet, and obtaining a packet type and a packet sequence number of the data packet as a current packet type and a current packet sequence number, respectively([0083]-[0084], which recites delivery types, and the wireless device may provide the context information to the cellular base station in response to the request. According to some embodiments, the context information may include at least the next packet sequence number of the broadcast or multicast service);
obtaining an expected packet sequence number, wherein the expected packet sequence number is used to indicate an expected data packet to be received before the data packet arrives([0083]-[0084], which recites delivery types, and the wireless device may provide the context information to the cellular base station in response to the request. According to some embodiments, the context information may include at least the next packet sequence number of the broadcast or multicast service]);
determining, according to the current packet type, a data sending state corresponding to the data packet and determining a retransmission detection algorithm corresponding to the data sending state, wherein the data sending state is used to indicate a corresponding connection state when the data packet is sent([0083]-[0084], which recites delivery types, and the wireless device may provide the context information to the cellular base station in response to the request. According to some embodiments, the context information may include at least the next packet sequence number of the broadcast or multicast service); and
calling the retransmission detection algorithm corresponding to the data sending state, and performing the retransmission detection according to the current packet sequence number and the expected packet sequence number, to determine whether the data packet contains retransmitted data([0083]-[0084], which recites delivery types, and the wireless device may provide the context information to the cellular base station in response to the request. According to some embodiments, the context information may include at least the next packet sequence number of the broadcast or multicast service).
Regarding claim 2, Xu discloses the method according to claim 1, wherein the current packet type comprises at least one of the following: a connected data packet, a disconnected data packet, and a connection establishment data packet; the data sending state comprises at least one of the following: a connected state, a disconnected state, and a connection establishment state; the connected state and the disconnected state correspond to different retransmission detection algorithms, and the connection establishment state and the disconnected state correspond to a same retransmission detection algorithm([0083]-[0084]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-28 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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/DADY CHERY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2418
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