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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
Claims 13-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because the claims are drawn to a “computer readable storage medium”. The specification does not define the “readable storage medium” and fails to exclude the ”medium” as a signal per se and thus could encompass both non-transitory and transitory/propagating signals. Hence these claims are ineligible. Applicant is suggested to amend these claims to recite “A non-transitory computer readable storage medium” in order to make the claims statutory.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 are allowed over the prior arts of record.
Claim 13-18 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 101, set forth in this Office action.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: wherein the time domain mask limits a pulse shape of the transmit signal, a lower boundary of the time domain mask corresponds to a first value, the time domain mask is an axisymmetric pattern in a first time domain, an upper boundary of the time domain mask in a second time domain outside the first time domain corresponds to a second value, the first time domain sequentially comprises a third time domain, a fourth time domain, and a fifth time domain in a time sequence, an upper boundary of the time domain mask in the third time domain corresponds to a third value, a value corresponding to an upper boundary of the time domain mask in the fourth time domain is 1, as recited in the independent claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 20220167908 A1 or US 20210325495 A1 or US 20210250761 A1 or US 20190013981 A1.
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/EMMANUEL BAYARD/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2633
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