DETAILED ACTION
This action is responsive to the communication filed on 03/21/2025.
Claims 1-20 are pending.
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 § 102
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.
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(s) 1-2, 13-16 and 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Bhatnagar et al (WO 2026033538 A1 herein after “AB”).
As per claim 1, and similarly claim 15 and 20, AB discloses a communication method, comprising:
after communication of a first Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service between a first User Equipment (UE) and a second UE is finished (AB, para[0028] in response to occurrence of at least one service issue…call failure, a call drop…), initiating a session release process by the first UE in a case that a first condition is met, the session release process being used for releasing a first session, and the first session being used for transmitting the first IMS service (AB, para[0032-0033] instructing to the MME associated with the HSS to clear the current network session of the UE for de-registering the UE with the network…in response to detecting issue); and
initiating a session establishment process and an IMS registration process after the session release process is completed, the session establishment process being used for establishing a second session, and the second session being used for transmitting a second IMS service (AB, para[0034] the establishment of a new session is initiated…triggering the UE to re-register with the network to establish the new network session).
As per claim 2 and similarly claim 16, AB discloses the method according to claim 1, wherein the first condition comprises at least one of the following: no session modification command is received after the first UE sends a first Bye message, and the first Bye message is used for ending the communication of the first IMS service between the first UE and the second UE; no session modification command is received after the first UE receives a second Bye message sent by the second UE, and the second Bye message is used for ending the communication of the first IMS service between the first UE and the second UE; a reject message sent by a network side device is received after the first UE sends a session modification request, and the reject message is used for rejecting session modification; the first UE detects that the session modification command sent by the network side device is erroneous; in a case that the first UE sends an IMS service request to a third UE, there is a dedicated bearer used for transmitting the IMS service; in a case that the first UE receives an IMS service request sent by a fourth UE, there is a dedicated bearer used for transmitting the IMS service; after the first UE sends an IMS service request to a fifth UE, the first UE receives a response message used for indicating an error; and after the first UE receives an IMS service request sent by a sixth UE, the first UE receives a call cancel message, wherein the session modification command is used for deleting the dedicated bearer used for transmitting the IMS service in the first session; and the session modification request is used for deleting the dedicated bearer used for transmitting the IMS service in the first session (AB, para[0075]).
As per claim 13, AB discloses the method according to claim l, wherein the IMS service comprises at least one of the following: an IMS voice call service; and an IMS video call service (AB, para[0012]).
As per claim 14, AB discloses the method according to claim 1, wherein the first session comprises at least one of the following: a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session, and a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection; and the bearer comprises at least one of the following: a QoS flow, and an Evolved Packet System (EPS) bearer (AB, para[0097,0099]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-12 and 17-19 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant’s disclosure. See form 892.
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/NATISHA D COX/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2458
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