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Claims 1-20 are non-provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of US Patent No.11,792,739. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claims 1-20 of US Patent No. 11,792,739 encompasses the limitations of claims 1-20 of instant application. Moreover, omission of a reference element whose function is not needed would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art. It is well settled that the omission of an element and its functions is an obvious expedient if the remaining elements performs the same function as before In re Karison, 163 USPQ 184 (CCPA 1963). Also note Ex parte Rainu, 168 uspq 375 (Bd. App. 1969).
More specifically, the independent claims 1-20 of the present application are same scope, same function and same results as claims 1-20 of the US Patent No. 11,792,739. In addition, even though the claims of present application omitted or simply rearranged claimed structure, or added the limitation using similar claimed elements, the function and results of claimed invention of the US Patent No. 11,792,739 is same as claimed invention of the present application.
In addition, the independent claims 1, 17, and 19 of the present application is the same invention as the independent claim 1 of the US Patent No. 11,792,739. The subject matter in the instant application is fully disclosed in the US Patent No. 11,792,739 and is covered by the US Patent No. 11,792,739 since the US Patent No. 11,792,739 and the instant application are claiming common subject matter, as follows, and the difference of the limitations are wordings differently.
Instant Application
U.S. Patent No. 11,792,739, Application No. 17/826,907
1. A method comprising:
receiving scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
reporting at least one power headroom report, wherein the at least one power headroom report is based on: a first power headroom corresponding to a first uplink transmission associated to a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for a serving cell and a second power headroom corresponding to a second uplink transmission associated to a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for the serving cell.
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
determine a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the first uplink transmission; determine a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the second uplink transmission; determine a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on the scheduling information; determine a second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on the scheduling information;
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
1….. perform the first uplink transmission using the first uplink transmission beam pattern or the first spatial domain transmission filter based on the first transmit power; and perform the second uplink transmission using the second uplink transmission beam pattern or the second spatial domain transmission filter based on the second transmit power.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission based on the first power headroom and the second power headroom.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising reporting a first power headroom report of the at least one power headroom report including a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and reporting a second power headroom report of the at least one power headroom report including a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first power headroom report is transmitted on the first uplink transmission and the second power headroom report is transmitted on the second uplink transmission.
18. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a first power headroom report including a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and report a second power headroom report including a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission,
wherein the first power headroom report is transmitted on the first uplink transmission and the second power headroom report is transmitted on the second uplink transmission.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information for the first uplink transmission is received in a first downlink control information (DCI) on a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and the scheduling information for the second uplink transmission is received in a second DCI on a second PDCCH.
4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the scheduling information for the first uplink transmission and the first SRI field is received in a first downlink control information (DCI) on a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and the scheduling information for the second uplink transmission and the second SRI field is received in a second DCI on a second PDCCH.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein a user equipment expects to receive the scheduling information for the second uplink transmission that comprises an uplink bandwidth part that is same as an uplink bandwidth part in the scheduling information for the first uplink transmission.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein a user equipment expects to receive the scheduling information for the second uplink transmission that comprises an uplink bandwidth part that is same as an uplink bandwidth part in the scheduling information for the first uplink transmission.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block, each of the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, and the first uplink transmission overlaps in time with the second uplink transmission.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block, each of the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, and the first uplink transmission is non-overlapping in time with the second uplink transmission.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block and a second transport block, the first uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, the second uplink transmission is associated with the second transport block, and the first uplink transmission overlaps in time with the second uplink transmission.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block and a second transport block, the first uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, the second uplink transmission is associated with the second transport block, and the first uplink transmission overlaps in time with the second uplink transmission.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block, each of the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, and the first uplink transmission is non-overlapping in time with the second uplink transmission.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises information for a first transport block, each of the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission is associated with the first transport block, and the first uplink transmission is non-overlapping in time with the second uplink transmission.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission are in a same bandwidth part of a same uplink carrier of the serving cell.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission are in a same bandwidth part of a same uplink carrier of the serving cell.
13. The method of claim 1, further comprising reporting a first configured maximum output power corresponding to the first uplink transmission beam pattern or the first spatial domain transmission filter and a second configured maximum output power corresponding to the second uplink transmission beam pattern or the second spatial domain transmission filter, wherein the first configured maximum output power and the second configured maximum output power are based on the scheduling information.
14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to determine a first configured maximum output power corresponding to the first uplink transmission beam pattern or the first spatial domain transmission filter and determine a second configured maximum output power corresponding to the second uplink transmission beam pattern or the second spatial domain transmission filter, wherein the first configured maximum output power and the second configured maximum output power are based on the scheduling information,
the first transmit power is determined based on the first configured maximum output power, and the second transmit power is determined based on the second configured maximum output power.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein each uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns is associated with a reference signal resource of a set of reference signal resources of a plurality of sets of reference signal resources, and each set of reference signal resources of the plurality of sets of reference signal resources comprises a number of downlink reference signal resources or a number of uplink SRS resources.
15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns is associated with a reference signal resource of a set of reference signal resources of a plurality of sets of reference signal resources, and each set of reference signal resources of the plurality of sets of reference signal resources comprises a number of downlink reference signal resources or a number of uplink SRS resources.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first uplink transmission beam pattern is different from the second uplink transmission beam pattern.
16. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determine a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on the scheduling information and a first set of uplink power control parameters of a plurality of set of uplink power control parameters; and determine a second transmit power for a second PUCCH transmission based on based on the scheduling information and a second set of uplink power control parameters of the plurality of set of uplink power control parameters.
16. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first uplink transmission beam pattern is different from the second uplink transmission beam pattern.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to: determine the first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on a first set of uplink power control parameters of a plurality of set of uplink power control parameters; and determine the second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on a second set of uplink power control parameters of the plurality of set of uplink power control parameters.
17. A user equipment (UE), comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:
receive scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
receive at least one power headroom report, wherein the at least one power headroom report is based on: a first power headroom corresponding to a first uplink transmission associated to a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for a serving cell and a second power headroom corresponding to a second uplink transmission associated to a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for the serving cell.
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
determine a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the first uplink transmission; determine a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the second uplink transmission; determine a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on the scheduling information; determine a second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on the scheduling information;
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
1….. perform the first uplink transmission using the first uplink transmission beam pattern or the first spatial domain transmission filter based on the first transmit power; and perform the second uplink transmission using the second uplink transmission beam pattern or the second spatial domain transmission filter based on the second transmit power.
18. The UE of claim 17, wherein the at least one power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission based on the first power headroom and the second power headroom.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
19. A processor for wireless communication, comprising: at least one controller coupled with at least one memory and configured to cause the processor to:
receive scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
receive at least one power headroom report, wherein the at least one power headroom report is based on: a first power headroom corresponding to a first uplink transmission associated to a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for a serving cell and a second power headroom corresponding to a second uplink transmission associated to a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters for the serving cell.
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive scheduling information for a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission for a serving cell;
determine a first uplink transmission beam pattern of a plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a first spatial domain transmission filter of a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the first uplink transmission; determine a second uplink transmission beam pattern of the plurality of uplink transmission beam patterns or a second spatial domain transmission filter of the plurality of spatial domain transmission filters corresponding to the second uplink transmission; determine a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on the scheduling information; determine a second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on the scheduling information;
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
1….. perform the first uplink transmission using the first uplink transmission beam pattern or the first spatial domain transmission filter based on the first transmit power; and perform the second uplink transmission using the second uplink transmission beam pattern or the second spatial domain transmission filter based on the second transmit power.
20. The processor of claim 19, wherein the at least one power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission based on the first power headroom and the second power headroom.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to report a power headroom report, the power headroom report comprises one power headroom for the serving cell corresponding to the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, and the power headroom report comprises a first power headroom corresponding to the first uplink transmission and a second power headroom corresponding to the second uplink transmission.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Kim et al. (US Patent #11,844,087), Fu et al. (US 2023/0141880), Jung et al. (US 2020/0128576), Ahn et al. (US 2020/0068509), Lohr et al. (US Patent #10,375,719), Lee et al. (US Patent #10,341,965), Hwang et al. (US 2017/0019864), Kim et al. (US Patent #9,451,564), Kim et al. (US Patent #9,107,175), and Koo et al. (US 2010/0291940).
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