CTNF 19/034,620 CTNF 79383 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. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 07-06 AIA 15-10-15 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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA) 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. 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (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. 07-15 AIA Claim s 1-2, 9-12, 16-20 are rejected under 35 USC 102( a)(1 ) as being anticipated by Kanamarlapudi et al. (hereinafter “Kan”, US Patent Publication US 20250202625 A1) . As per claim 1, Kan discloses A method, comprising: Obtaining, by a processor of a transmitting apparatus, one or more packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) service data units (SDUs) from an upper layer (paragraphs [0028, 0030, 101-102]); Detecting, by the processor, that the one or more PDCP SDUs, each associated with a PDCP sequence number (SN), are discarded before successfully transmitted to a receiving apparatus (paragraphs [0030, 0033]) Transmitting, by the processor, a PDCP control protocol data unit (PDU) to the receiving apparatus, wherein the PDCP control PDU indicates a PDCP SN gap report associated with the discarded PDCP SDUs (paragraphs [0033, 0111]). As per claims 2, 12, Kan discloses The method of Claim 1, wherein the PDCP control PDU comprises a PDU type with a value for the PDCP SN gap report (paragraph [0033]). As per claims 9, 19, Kan discloses The method of Claim 1, wherein the PDCP SDUs are processed by a PDCP entity associated with two radio link control (RLC) entities (paragraphs [0003, 0028]). As per claims 10, 20, Kan discloses The method of Claim 1, wherein the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus comprise a network node and a user equipment (UE) (paragraph [0027]). As per claim 11, Kan discloses A method, comprising: Receiving, by a processor of a receiving apparatus, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) control protocol data unit (PDU) from a transmitting apparatus, wherein the PDCP control PDU indicates a PDCP SN gap report associated with one or more PDCP service data units (SDUs) (paragraphs [0028, 0030, 101-102]); Determining, by the processor, the PDCP SDUs as discarded (paragraphs [0030, 0033]); Delivering, by the processor, all stored PDCP SDUs and the PDCP SDUs which are determined as discarded to an upper layer paragraphs ([0033, 0111]). As per claim 16, Kan disclose The method of Claim 11, further comprising: updating, by the processor, PDCP state variables; and stopping and resetting, by the processor, a reordering time (paragraph [0031]). As per claim 17, Kan discloses The method of Claim 11, wherein one or more PDCP data PDUs corresponding to the PDCP SDUs belong to a PDU set and comprise a payload of one unit of information generated at an application level (paragraph [106]). As per claim 18, Kan discloses The method of Claim 17, wherein the information comprises one or more frames or video slices for an extended reality (XR) service (paragraphs [0027-28, 0035]) . Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 Claim s 3-8, 13-15 are 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. 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