DATA PROCESSING METHOD, PRECODING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE

Application No. 18/955,323

• Filed: Nov 21, 2024
• Priority: Jan 11, 2013 — JP 2013-003905
  • Feb 22, 2013 — JP 2013-033353
  • Sep 20, 2013 — JP 2013-195166
  • Dec 27, 2013 — nonprovisional of PCTJP2013007687
  • Sep 04, 2014 — continuation of 9178650
  • Sep 21, 2015 — continuation of 9479235
  • Sep 08, 2016 — continuation of 9735918
  • May 15, 2017 — continuation of 9900125
  • Dec 26, 2017 — continuation of 10/110,341
  • Sep 14, 2018 — continuation of 10/432,346
  • Aug 14, 2019 — continuation of 10/594,432
  • Jan 13, 2020 — continuation of 10/819,464
  • Aug 31, 2020 — continuation of 11/025,363
  • Apr 15, 2021 — continuation of 11/936,470
  • Jan 25, 2024 — continuation of 12/191,988
• Examiner: TORRES, JUAN A
• Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• OA Round: 1 (Non-Final)

Office Action

DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent provisions.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed in parent Application No. 15/594,771, filed on 05/15/2017.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 11/21/2024 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Drawings
The drawings filed on 11/21/2024 are accepted by the Examiner.
Specification
The disclosure filed on 11/21/2024 is accepted by the Examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.

The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.

Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention. The original filed application does not disclose “perform first phase change on the modulated signal to generate a first phase-changed signal and a second phase-changed signal identical to the first phase-changed signal; and perform second phase change on the first phase-changed signal and the second phase-changed signal to generate a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal, respectively; and a transmitter configured to transmit the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal via a first antenna and a second antenna, respectively, wherein in the second phase change, a phase change amount applied to the first phase-changed signal includes a first amount provided uniquely for the first antenna and the first amount is not applied to the second phase-changed signal.” This is a new matter rejection.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Montojo (US 20090245421 A1) discloses scrambling and modulation to constrain the constellation size of ack/nak transmission on the data channel.
Wengerter (US 8005163 B2) discloses constellation rearrangement for transmit diversity schemes.
Dent (US 8014436 B2) discloses multi-dimensional signal of reduced peak-to-RMS ratio.
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/JUAN A TORRES/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2634

Prosecution Timeline

• Nov 21, 2024: Application Filed
• Jul 28, 2026: Non-Final Rejection mailed — §112 (current)