DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Status of Claims
The following is a non-final, first action on the merits, in response to application filed December 10, 2024. Claims 1-6, are currently pending.
Priority
Certified copy of priority document EP 2009-19202578 dated October 10, 2019, is acknowledged which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDSs) submitted on 12/10/2024, is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
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) 1-6, is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by ZHU et al (hereinafter ZHU) (US 2016/0135213).
Regarding claims 1, 3, 5, 6, ZHU discloses a method performed by a Multi-SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) device (a dual subscriber identity module, paras. 0031, 0074), the method comprising:
transmitting (At the UE Controller/processor 230 may also perform or direct other processes for the techniques described, and controller/processor 240 condition transmitter 238 to generate a downlink signal, which may be transmitted ….. to UE 110 and/or other UEs), to a first network associated with a first SIM of the Multi-SIM device, capability information that the Multi-SIM device is capable of transmitting UE (method generally includes sharing a single transmit chain and a single receive chain for communication by at least a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT, and providing assistance information to a base station of the second RAT to assist the BS in avoiding scheduling downlink transmissions. User Equipment Assistance Information (the UE 110 may support communications with multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) (e.g., concurrent RATs (CRAT)). The CRAT UE may share uplink transmissions between two RATs (e.g., transmit sharing), for example, in terms of TDM. The CRAT UE may support dual receiving of downlink transmissions) (paras. 0008, 0031, 0033); and
transmitting the UE Assistance Information to the first network, wherein the UE Assistance Information is for the first network to select a certain time for receiving a second downlink transmission from a second network associated with a second SIM of the Multi-SIM device, the second SIM being different from the first SIM (UE 110 may search for wireless networks ….then a wireless network with the highest priority may be selected to serve UE 110 and may be referred to as the serving network. Providing assistance information to a base station of the second RAT to assist the BS in avoiding scheduling downlink transmissions that would lead to conflict with the UE receiving one or more pages in the first RAT. On the downlink, traffic data and signaling messages may be processed by controller/processor 240 and conditioned by transmitter 238 to generate a downlink signal, which may be transmitted via antenna 236 to UE 110 and/or other UEs. For example, for scheduled LTE downlink transmissions, a UE may need to transmit an uplink ACK to confirm the UE received the data. In other words, it is possible that a UE may be, problematically, scheduled for uplink transmission in both RATs during given a transmission period) (paras. 0008, 0030, 0033, 0037),
wherein the UE Assistance Information comprises indication of a pattern representing a time period which repeats, the pattern indicating the certain time during the repeated time period during which the Multi-SIM device receives the second downlink transmission from the second network (in-device coexistence (IDC) enables the LTE network to avoid interference with another RAT in terms of TDM by smart scheduling based on the assistance information received from the UE, ………a subframe pattern may repeat until (that is, time period) the UE transmits an updated pattern) (para. 0048),
wherein the Multi-SIM device doesn't receive a first downlink transmission from the first network during the certain time (para. 0076).
Regarding claims 2, 4, ZHU discloses wherein the first downlink transmission comprises a paging message transmitted from the first network, and wherein the second downlink transmission comprises a paging message transmitted from the second network (the UE may employ a first tuning circuitry for transmission on a frequency associated with the first RAT and may employ a second tuning circuitry for transmission on a frequency associated with the second RAT. The UE may further maintain one or more portions of the first tuning circuitry and second tuning circuitry active) (para. 0072)
Conclusion
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/QUTBUDDIN GHULAMALI/
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Art Unit 2632.
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