Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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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.
Claims 1, 13, 20 are anticipated under 35 USC 102(1) by Zhu et al. (hereinafter “Zhu”, US Patent Publication US 20210092667 A1).
As per claims 1, 13, 20, discloses A User Equipment (UE) for wireless communication, a method, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having processors of a User Eqipment (UE), the UE comprising:
one or more memories (paragraphs [0080, 0508-509]);
a radio (paragraphs [0004, 0009, 0012]);
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to:
obtain a flow (paragraphs [0169-170]);
perform a bearer selection process to select, from among a plurality of data radio bearers configured for use by the UE to transmit flows on a network, a data radio bearer for transmission of the flow (paragraph [0011];
transmit, via the radio, at least some of the flow on the selected data radio bearer (paragraph [0164].
5, 14, The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to transmit, via the radio, a notification to a network entity that the selected data radio bearer has been selected for the flow (paragraphs [0239, 0248, 0380]).
9, 17 The UE of claim 1, does not disclose wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
receive, via the radio one or more performance indicators from a network entity (paragraph [0011]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-4, 6-8, 10-12, 15-16, 18-19 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
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September 29, 2026
/BARBARA B Anyan/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2457
