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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.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement submitted on 12/26/2024 has 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 § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea (mathematical concepts) without significantly more. Claim 1 recites the steps of “performing data augmentation on first channel state information (CSI) data based on feature information of the first CSI data, to obtain a plurality of pieces of second CSI data; wherein the feature information comprises at least one of: a spatial-domain feature or a frequency-domain feature; and taking at least the first CSI data and the plurality of pieces of second CSI data as CSI sample data”. The step of “performing data augmentation on first channel state information (CSI) data based on feature information of the first CSI data, to obtain a plurality of pieces of second CSI data; wherein the feature information comprises at least one of: a spatial-domain feature or a frequency-domain feature” is a mathematical concept executed using mathematical formulates (see paragraphs 0236-0247 of the invention’s disclosure). According to the Court, concepts determined to be abstract ideas and, thus, patent ineligible, include certain methods of organizing human activity, such as fundamental economic practices (Alice, 573 U.S. at 219-20; Bilski, 561 U.S. at 611); mathematical formulas (Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584, 594-95 (1978)), and mental processes (Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63,67 (1972)). The step of “taking at least the first CSI data and the plurality of pieces of second CSI data as CSI sample data” is a data gathering step. Nothing in the claim, understood in light of the specification, requires anything other than off-the-shelf, conventional computer, network, and display technology for gathering, sending, and presenting the desired information; see also Alice. Therefore, the claim as a whole is directed to an abstract idea. This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because no additional elements are cited in the claim. Therefore, the claim does not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. Claims 2-17 are rejected using the same analogy.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Geirhofer et al. (hereinafter, referred to as Geirhofer) (CN 102687551).
As to claim 1, Geirhofer discloses a data processing method (see paragraph 0056), comprising: performing data augmentation on first channel state information (CSI) data based on feature information of the first CSI data, to obtain a plurality of pieces of second CSI data; wherein the feature information comprises at least one of: a spatial-domain feature or a frequency-domain feature (see paragraph 0056, Geirhofer discloses expanding the CSI feedback to ensure it matches a proper size. This expansion is interpreted as performing data augmentation on first CSI, the expanded CSI feedback is interpreted as the second CSI data having a plurality of pieces); and taking at least the first CSI data and the plurality of pieces of second CSI data as CSI sample data (see paragraphs 0055-0056, Fig. 3, block 330, the extended CSI feedback comprises the components of the non-extended feedback).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 19-20 are allowed.
Claim 18 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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LEILA . MALEK
Examiner
Art Unit 2632
/LEILA MALEK/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632
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