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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)(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) 1-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Wang et al. (US 2020/0068422 A1).
Wang teaches the reporting of measurements of a plurality of quantity types. With respect to the claims, references to the prior art appear in parenthesis.
Claims
1. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) (Wang US 2020/0068422 A1), comprising:
receiving a reporting configuration message (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078) that configures the UE to measure a plurality of resources using a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type (Reporting types 1-8 in paragraphs 0136-0143) ;
identifying a rule for ranking a measurement of the first reporting quantity type relative to a measurement of the second reporting quantity type (Reporting rules 1-15 in paragraphs 0153-0173) ;
performing a first plurality of measurements of at least a first subset of the plurality of resources in accordance with the first reporting quantity type and a second plurality of measurements of at least a second subset of the plurality of resources in accordance with the second reporting quantity type (Measurement step S104 in Figure 4 that corresponds to the reporting types 1-8 in paragraphs 0136-0143) ; and
transmitting a measurement report indicating a subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the rule (Measurement report transmitted to the base station in paragraph 0179) .
2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the rule further comprises: receiving control signaling that comprises an indication of the rule, wherein the control signaling comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), downlink control information (DCI), or any combination thereof (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078).
3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the rule comprises: receiving control signaling that indicates the rule is a scaling factor to apply to one or more measurements of the first reporting quantity type, or to one or more measurements of the second reporting quantity type, or both, wherein the measurement report indicates the subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the scaling factor (Scaling factor corresponds to the weighting of the reporting rules in paragraph 0176) .
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first reporting quantity type is reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement, and the second reporting quantity type is a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurement (RSRP, RSRQ and CQI in paragraph 0137, where RSRQ where reference signal receive quality corresponds to a signal to interference plus noise ratio since it is a reflection of the quality of the signal) .
5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the reporting configuration message comprises: receiving the reporting configuration message where an order in which the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type occur within the reporting configuration message indicates the rule (Reporting-content reporting rules in paragraphs 0163 and 0169) .
6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the rule further comprises: retrieving the rule from a memory of the UE (Reporting rules may be predefined in a protocol in paragraph 0151 (i.e. stored in the UE)) .
7. A method for wireless communication (Wang US 2020/0068422 A1), comprising:
transmitting a reporting configuration message (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078) that configures a user equipment (UE) to measure a plurality of resources using a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type (Reporting types 1-8 in paragraphs 0136-0143); and
receiving a measurement report (Measurement report transmitted to the base station in paragraph 0179) indicating a subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on a rule for ranking a measurement of the first reporting quantity type relative to a measurement of the second reporting quantity type (Reporting rules 1-15 in paragraphs 0153-0173) .
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising: transmitting, to the UE, control signaling that comprises an indication of the rule, wherein the control signaling comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), downlink control information (DCI), or any combination thereof (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078).
9. The method of claim 7, further comprising: transmitting control signaling that indicates the rule (Reporting rules may be notified by RRC signaling in paragraph 0151 ) that is a scaling factor to apply to one or more measurements of the first reporting quantity type, or to one or more measurements of the second reporting quantity type, or both, wherein the measurement report indicates the subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the scaling factor (Scaling factor corresponds to the weighting of the reporting rules in paragraph 0176), and wherein the first reporting quantity type is reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement, and the first reporting quantity type is a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurements (RSRP, RSRQ and CQI in paragraph 0137, where RSRQ where reference signal receive quality corresponds to a signal to interference plus noise ratio since it is a reflection of the quality of the signal).
10. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the reporting configuration message comprises: transmitting the reporting configuration message where an order in which the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type occur within the reporting configuration message indicates the rule (Reporting-content reporting rules in paragraphs 0163 and 0169) .
11. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication (Wang US 2020/0068422 A1), comprising: one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the UE to:
receive a reporting configuration message (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078) that configures the UE to measure a plurality of resources using a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type (Reporting types 1-8 in paragraphs 0136-0143);
identify a rule for ranking a measurement of the first reporting quantity type relative to a measurement of the second reporting quantity type (Reporting rules 1-15 in paragraphs 0153-0173);
perform a first plurality of measurements of at least a first subset of the plurality of resources in accordance with the first reporting quantity type and a second plurality of measurements of at least a second subset of the plurality of resources in accordance with the second reporting quantity type (Measurement step S104 in Figure 4 that corresponds to the reporting types 1-8 in paragraphs 0136-0143) ; and
transmit a measurement report indicating a subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the rule (Measurement report transmitted to the base station in paragraph 0179) .
12. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to identify the rule, the one or more processors are operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: receive control signaling that comprises an indication of the rule, wherein the control signaling comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), downlink control information (DCI), or any combination thereof (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078).
13. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to identify the rule, the one or more processors are operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: receive control signaling that indicates the rule is a scaling factor to apply to one or more measurements of the first reporting quantity type, or to one or more measurements of the second reporting quantity type, or both, wherein the measurement report indicates the subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the scaling factor (Scaling factor corresponds to the weighting of the reporting rules in paragraph 0176).
14. The UE of claim 13, wherein the first reporting quantity type is reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement, and the second reporting quantity type is a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurement (RSRP, RSRQ and CQI in paragraph 0137, where RSRQ where reference signal receive quality corresponds to a signal to interference plus noise ratio since it is a reflection of the quality of the signal).
15. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to receive the reporting configuration message, the one or more processors are operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: receive the reporting configuration message where an order in which the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type occur within the reporting configuration message indicates the rule (Reporting-content reporting rules in paragraphs 0163 and 0169) .
16. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to identify the rule, the one or more processors are operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: retrieve the rule from a memory of the UE (Reporting rules may be predefined in a protocol in paragraph 0151 (i.e. stored in the UE)).
17. An apparatus for wireless communication (Wang US 2020/0068422 A1), comprising: one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the apparatus to:
transmit a reporting configuration message (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078) that configures a user equipment (UE) to measure a plurality of resources using a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type; and
receive a measurement report (Measurement report transmitted to the base station in paragraph 0179) indicating a subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on a rule for ranking a measurement of the first reporting quantity type relative to a measurement of the second reporting quantity type (Reporting rules 1-15 in paragraphs 0153-0173).
18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the apparatus to: transmit, to the UE, control signaling that comprises an indication of the rule, wherein the control signaling comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), downlink control information (DCI), or any combination thereof (Reporting Configuration message using RRC layer, MAC-CE or DCI in paragraph 0078).
19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the apparatus to: transmit control signaling that indicates the rule (Reporting rules may be notified by RRC signaling in paragraph 0151 ) that is a scaling factor to apply to one or more measurements of the first reporting quantity type, or to one or more measurements of the second reporting quantity type, or both, wherein the measurement report indicates the subset of the plurality of resources selected based at least in part on the scaling factor (Scaling factor corresponds to the weighting of the reporting rules in paragraph 0176), and wherein the first reporting quantity type is reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement, and the first reporting quantity type is a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurements (RSRP, RSRQ and CQI in paragraph 0137, where RSRQ where reference signal receive quality corresponds to a signal to interference plus noise ratio since it is a reflection of the quality of the signal).
20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein, to transmit the reporting configuration message, the one or more processors are individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the apparatus to: transmit the reporting configuration message where an order in which the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type occur within the reporting configuration message indicates the rule (Reporting-content reporting rules in paragraphs 0163 and 0169) .
Conclusion
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MELVIN C. MARCELO
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2463
/MELVIN C MARCELO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2463 September 30, 2026
