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
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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 Objections
Claims 10-20 are objected to because of the following informalities:
10. (Proposed Amendment) A communication node comprising:
a processor configured to execute a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein execution of the computer program causes the processor to perform a channel reconstruction method, the method comprising:
acquiring an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signal and transmitting the ISAC signa;
receiving an echo signal and a reference signal, wherein the echo signal is a signal scattered by a scatterer based on the ISAC signal, and the reference signal is a signal fed back by a second communication node based on the ISAC signal; and
performing channel reconstruction according to the echo signal and the reference signal.
11. (Proposed Amendment) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a channel reconstruction method, the metod comprising:
acquiring an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signal and transmitting the ISAC signal;
receiving an echo signal and a reference signal, wherein the echo signal is a signal scattered by a scatterer based on the ISAC signal, and the reference signal is a signal fed back by a second communication node based on the ISAC signal; and
performing channel reconstruction according to the echo signal and the reference signal.
Claims 12-19 depend either directly or indirectly from claim 10, therefore they are also objected.
Claim 20 depends from claim 11, therefore it is also objected.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 16-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 16 recites the limitation “the first communication node” in lines 2-3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 17-19 depend either directly or indirectly from claim 16, therefore they are also rejected.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9 are allowed.
Claims 10-20 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the objection(s) set forth in this Office action.
Claims 16-19 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Morita relates to a mobile communication system that supports downlink multi-antenna transmission, a base station managing a cell receives beamforming control information fed back from each of a plurality of beamforming target terminals connected to the cell, and null steering control information fed back from a null steering target terminal. When there exists no beamforming target terminal that feeds back the beamforming control information that coincides with the null steering control information, the base station selects, as a pair terminal, a beamforming target terminal that feeds back the beamforming control information containing a precoder matrix indicator (PMI) and a rank indicator (RI). The PMI is an indicator that indicates a precoder matrix (transmission antenna weight) recommended for the serving cell. The RI is an indicator that indicates the rank (number of signal sequences) recommended for the serving cell.
KIM et al. relates to a method for reporting, by a terminal, channel status information (CSI) to a base station in a wireless communication system. The CSI reporting method is characterized by including: transmitting, to the base station, first CSI including a rank indicator in a first period unit; transmitting, to the base station, second CSI including a vertical precoding matrix index in a second period unit within the first period; and transmitting, to the base station, third CSI including horizontal precoding matrix index in a third period unit within the second period.
YANG et al. relates to a method includes: sending, by a base station, multiple different weighted pilot signals to a terminal, where each of the weighted pilot signals includes a product of a pilot signal and a weighting matrix; receiving, by the base station, multiple different optimal code words returned by the terminal, where each of the optimal code words is obtained based on a channel estimation of a weighted pilot signal; and reconstructing, by the base station, a downlink channel according to the multiple different optimal code words. According to the foregoing method, a quantization error can be reduced, so that a beam direction of a reconstructed channel correctly points to the terminal.
NOH et al. relates to a method includes: receiving signal information comprising information indicating a reporting mode for channel status information and information related to a codebook subset configuration for use in reporting the channel status information; determining whether to apply codebook subsampling to a master codebook based on the codebook subset configuration and the reporting mode; upon determining to apply the codebook subsampling to the master codebook, generating a subsampled codebook by subsampling the master codebook and generating the channel status information comprising a PMI generated based on the subsampled codebook; and transmitting the channel status information to a base station. In the LTE-A system, the UE feeds the downlink channel status information back to the base station, so that it may be utilized in the downlink scheduling of the base station. That is, the UE measures the reference signal transmitted from the base station on the downlink and feed-backs the information extracted through the measurement to the base station in a form as defined in the LTE-LTE-A standards.
YUM et al. relates to a method comprises: receiving an instruction to report the channel state on the basis of the aperiodic CSI-RS; and transmitting CSI derived from the aperiodic CSI-RS according to the instruction to report the channel state, wherein the aperiodic CSI-RS is periodically received for a predetermined time interval, the CSI transmitted at a first CSI reporting time valid after receiving the instruction to report the channel state includes information of the highest priority type, and a transmission offset of the information of the highest priority type can be determined on the basis of the point of time when the instruction to report the channel state is received. A Channel State Indicator (CSI) is feedback information about a downlink channel and the feedback information regarding MIMO includes a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI).
Bian et al. relates to a method for determining precoding includes: receiving, by a first communication node, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) sent by a second communication node; and determining a precoding matrix used on a control channel according to the PMI and a precoding parameter, where the precoding parameter includes at least one of: a PMI delay, the number of repetitions of the control channel, an aggregation level of the control channel, a candidate resource of the control channel, a starting physical resource block (PRB) sequence number of the control channel, a repetition resource group of the control channel, or a PRB set of the control channel.
LI et al. relates to a method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a first communication node to a second communication node, a reference signal, at least one parameter of the reference signal having been modified based on a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format message or a Medium Access Control (MAC) message, and the at least one parameter comprising one or more of a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the reference signal, a number of OFDM symbols in the reference signal in a frequency-domain range, a time-domain position of a first symbol of the reference signal, and a number of repeated transmissions of the reference signal.
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/Young T. Tse/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632
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