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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Status of Claims
2. This communication is responsive to Application No. 19/230,870 filed on June 06, 2025, which is a CON of 18/271,953 (Patent No.: US 12,355,523 B2). Claims 1-20 are subject to examination.
Claim Objections
3. Claim 11 is objected to because of the following informality: in line 2 “memory, configured to” should be replaced with 2 “memory, the WTRU configured to”. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
4. 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.
5. Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the Applicant regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites "the SRS transmission power has been scaled down for the SRS resource set" in the last two lines. It is not clear whether said “SRS resource set” (the last line) is referring to all said “other SRS resources” (lines 4-5) and “impacted one or more SRS resources” (line 5) or only said “other SRS resources” (lines 4-5). Hence, renders claim 1 and its dependent claims indefinite. Similar rejection applies to claim 11.
Reason for Allowance
6. As stated above this instant application is the CON application. The difference between the instant and CON applications is that the instant recites an additional limitation: “SRS transmission power is scaled down for other SRS resources of the SRS resource set than the impacted one or more SRS resources”.
Gong (US 2020/0374814 A1) teaches in Figure 2 determining a quantity of ports corresponding to each of a plurality of SRS resources on a first time domain resource, where the plurality of SRS resources belong to a first SRS resource set (S210), determining, based on the quantity of ports corresponding to each of the plurality of SRS resources and transmit power corresponding, in a first time unit, to the first SRS resource set, transmit power of each port corresponding to each of the plurality of SRS resources, where a sum of transmit power of all ports corresponding to the plurality of SRS resources is less than or equal to transmit power corresponding to the first SRS resource set, and the first time unit includes the first time domain resource, or the first time unit is the first time domain resource (S220), and SRSs carried in the plurality of SRS resources are simultaneously transmitted on the first time domain resource based on the transmit power of each port corresponding to each of the plurality of SRS resources, power headroom of simultaneously transmitted SRSs carried in the plurality of SRS resources, is obtained based on the transmit power of each port corresponding to each of the plurality of SRS resources or sending, to the network device, information indicating the power headroom (S230).
Manolakos (US 2021/0105116 A1) teaches in Figure 4 receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises one or more SRS resources (405), receiving signaling comprising a field indicating which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets are active and which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resources sets are inactive (410), and transmitting one or more SRSs using only the one or more SRS resources that are active (415).
Wernersson (US 2022/0039028 A1) teaches in Figure 15 obtaining, by a wireless device, a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration corresponding to a first SRS transmission power value (S140), obtaining, by the wireless device, a second sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration corresponding to a second SRS transmission power value for antenna switching by the UE (S142), and determining, by the wireless device, a power level to transmit an SRS on at least one SRS resource associated with at least one of the first SRS resource set and the second SRS resource set to a network node (S144).
However, the prior art of record when implemented, would not produce said method as claimed in claim 1 and said WTRU as claimed in claim 11.
Conclusion
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/SHAWKAT M ALI/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2633
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