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 .
Priority
Applicant’s claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is acknowledged.
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d).
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements submitted on 01/09/2025, 10/01/2025, and 12/08/2025 have been considered and made of record by the examiner.
Specification
The lengthy specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors. Applicant’s cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which applicant may become aware in the specification.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 21-40 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being incomplete for omitting essential steps, such omission amounting to a gap between the steps. See MPEP § 2172.01. The omitted steps are: obtaining a first frequency domain signal based on the second frequency domain signal (see Fig. 6b). As to claims 21 and 31, it is not clear where the second frequency domain signal is coming from and no clear relationship has been established in the claims between the system (apparatus) as a whole and the second frequency domain signal. Based on the language of the claims it appears that the method steps of the claims and the structures of the claims are only related to generating the first signal and transmitting it. Claims 22-25 depend on claim 21, therefore they are rejected as well. Claims 32-35 depend on claim 31, therefore they are rejected as well. As to claims 26 and 36, it is not clear where the second frequency domain signal is coming from and no clear relationship has been established in the claims between the system (apparatus) as a whole and the second frequency domain signal. Based on the language of the claims it appears that the method steps of the claims and the structures of the claims are only related to receiving the first signal and determining the M amplitude shift keying modulation symbols based on the first signal. Claims 27-30, depend on claim 26, therefore they are rejected as well. Claims 37-40 depend on claim 36, therefore they are rejected as well.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure (US 2019/0288901, this reference teaches generating a signal that carriers amplitude shift keying modulation symbols and that the signal comprises one OFDM symbol in a time domain (see Fig. 4)).
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LEILA . MALEK
Examiner
Art Unit 2632
/LEILA MALEK/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632
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