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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 .
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 1, 24, and 26 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which applicant regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 24, and 26 recites the limitation "current network standard" where current network standard constantly changing with updates thus fail to particularly point out and distinctly define the metes and bounds of the subject matter. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 2, and 24-26 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by WIPO Pub. No. 2019/195600 A1 to Wilson et al.
As to Claims 1, 24, and 26, Wilson disclose a communication device, chip, and method for beam sensing performed by the communication device, comprising (Fig. 12, Fig.16, paragraph [0009, 0036, 0257]):
a processor (Fig. 12, Fig.16, paragraph [0009, 0036, 0257], where the communication device implemented with processor (chip) and memory to execute instruction for communication functions);
a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor (Fig. 12, Fig.16, paragraph [0009, 0036, 0257], where the communication device implemented with processor (chip) and memory to store instructions and processed by processor for communication functions);
where the processor is configured to (Fig. 12, Fig. 16):
obtain a first beam feature set and a second beam feature set related to the a current network standard (Fig. 6, paragraph [0135, 0137, 0138, 0270, 0271], where the channel parameter set such as signal to noise ratio (SIR), signal to noise plus interference ration (SINR), etc. are measured for each SSB beams (first and second beam feature) of various communication standards (IEEE, CDMA, Wideband, WI-FI, LTEs, 3GPPs, etc.));
in response to at least one first parameter of the first beam feature set and least on second parameter of the second beam feature set satisfying a preset condition, select the first beam feature set of the second beam feature set as an acquisition source of channel state information (CSI), where the first beam feature set is related to the at least one first parameter and the second beam feature is related to the at least one second parameter (Fig. 6, paragraph [0025, 0111, 0135, 0137, 0138, 0139], where either first or second beam is granted (selected) based on satisfying the threshold of estimated the channel parameters of first and second beams (source of channel state information – CSI-RS, TRS, etc.)).
As to Claims 2 and 25, Wilson further discloses the communication device and method wherein in response to a calculation result between the at least one first parameter of the first beam feature set and the at least on second parameter of the second beam feature set and at least one piece of threshold information, obtaining g feature recognition result, wherein the feature recognition result indicates where the at least one first parameter of the first beam feature set and the lease on e second parameter of the second beam feature set satisfy the preset condition (Fig. 6, paragraph [0135, 0138, 0139], where the first or second beam is granted (selected) based on satisfying the threshold (preset condition) of the measurement of channel parameters (obtain feature recognition results)).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over WIPO Pub. No. 2019/195600 A1 to Wilson et al. in further view of U.S. PGPub. No. 20200358514 to Landis et al.
As to Claim 12, Wilson disclose the communication device and method inputting the at lease one first parameter of the first beam feature and the at lease one second parameter of the second beam feature set for beam sensing and feature recognition result indicate whether the at least one first parameter of the first beam feature set and the at least one second parameter of the second beam feature set satisfy the preset condition (Fig. 6, paragraph [0025, 0111, 0135, 0137, 0138, 0139], where either first or second beam is granted (sensing) based on satisfying (feature recognition) the threshold (reset condition) of estimated the channel parameters of first and second beams) except for into preset neural network model and obtain by the neural network model.
However, Landis in the same field of endeavor teaches the bam management based on artificial neural network to update and apply a predictive model for beam selection (Fig. 8, paragraph [0058]).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinarily skilled in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention use adaptive learning as taught by Landis to modify the device and method of Wilson to provide the improvement of beam management (Landis - paragraph [0007]).
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