CTNF 19/002,557 CTNF 88939 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Priority 02-26 AIA Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file. Information Disclosure Statement The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on 12/26/2024 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 C.F. R 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner. Oath/Declaration The Oath/Declaration filed on 12/26/2026 is hereby acknowledged. Drawings 06-37 AIA The drawings were received on 12/26/2026 . These drawings are acceptable . Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112 07-30-02 AIA 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. 07-34-01 Claim 1-20 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. Independent Claim 1 and 11, defined the variables “ F3” as “being a positive integer” and “n being a positive integer and n ＜ F3.” However, when the value of F3 is 1, the expression “n ＜ F3” becomes fails and thus making the recited claim scope unclear as to the desired/functional range of values for the parameter F3 in order for the claimed invention to be operable. Independent Claim 12 defined the variables “ F1” as “being a positive integer” and “n being a positive integer and n ＜ F1.” However, when the value of F1 is 1, the expression “n ＜ F1” becomes fails and thus making the recited claim scope unclear as to the desired/functional range of values for the parameter F1 in order for the claimed invention to be operable. Claims 2-10 and 13-20 are rejected for at least its dependency on claim 1 and 12, respectively. Allowable Subject Matter 07-43-01 AIA Claim s 1, 11 and 12 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. 07-43-02 AIA Claim s 2-10 and 13-20 would be allowable if rewritten 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 and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Liu et al. (NPL titled: "Deep Learning Based Hotspot Prediction and Beam Management for Adaptive Virtual Small Cell in 5G Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 83-94, Feb. 2020) discloses (Abstract, Fig. 1-4 ) “a hotspot prediction based virtual small cell (VSC)operation scheme is adopted to improve both the cost efficiency and operational efficiency of5Gnetworks.Thispaperfocusesonhowto predict the hotspots by using deep learning, and then demonstrates how the predictions can be leveraged to support adaptive beam forming and VSC operation. We first leverage the feature extraction capabilities of deep learning and exploit use of a long short-term memory(LSTM)neural network to achieve hotspot prediction for the potential formation of the VSCs. WALKER et al. (US 20140146921 A1) discloses (Abstract, Fig. 3, 8) “A terrestrial receiver recovers universal services in a satellite radio transmission system including discrete signal sources producing overlapping spot beam loci within a coverage area, wherein the signals forming the beams each contain repeating time aligned universal services having a master synchronizing frame, at least one common channel, and at least one spot specific channel with differing frequency and/or polarization. The receiver switches among antenna elements. A portion of antenna elements receive a transmitted signal, including a plurality of sub-channels that are transmitted in predetermined time intervals. A switching device switches among single antenna elements to receive the transmitted signal. A controller commands the switching device to select each of the antenna elements separately in predetermined periods of time based upon the predetermined time intervals of each of the master synchronizing frames. A power level of the transmitted signal is determined during the predetermined time intervals.” Lin (US 12348983 B1) disclose (Fig. 1-3, 4, 7) a beam management procedure in a wireless network where “a system 400 using a neural network to determine a subset of beam information for a user equipment device (UE) to use to transmit signals, according to at least one embodiment. In at least one embodiment, a neural network is trained to utilize UE's uplink transmission in a PCG (e.g., on a PCell) to predict a subset of SSB beams to facilitate UE's beam management in a SCG (e.g., on a PSCell)...” Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to AMNEET SINGH whose telephone number is (571)272-2414. The examiner can normally be reached 9:30am to 5:30pm. Examiner interviews are available via telephone, in-person, and video conferencing using a USPTO supplied web-based collaboration tool. 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If you would like assistance from a USPTO Customer Service Representative, call 800-786-9199 (IN USA OR CANADA) or 571-272-1000. /AMNEET SINGH/Examiner, Art Unit 2633 /SAM K AHN/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2633 Application/Control Number: 19/002,557 Page 2 Art Unit: 2633 Application/Control Number: 19/002,557 Page 3 Art Unit: 2633 Application/Control Number: 19/002,557 Page 4 Art Unit: 2633 Application/Control Number: 19/002,557 Page 5 Art Unit: 2633
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