CTNF 19/236,561 CTNF 82084 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. Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114 07-42-04 AIA A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 4/30/26 has been entered. Response to Arguments Applicant’s arguments have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 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. 07-20-aia AIA 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, 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. 07-21-aia AIA Claim (s) 48 and 49 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Publication No. 2017/0303157 A1 to Siomina et al., in view of U.S. Patent Publication No. 2020/0100161 A1 to Awada et al . As to claim 49, Siomina discloses a user equipment (UE), comprising: an antenna for use in transmitting electromagnetic signals; a memory for storing computer readable code; and a processor for executing the computer readable code, the computer readable code causing the UE to: (Figs. 5,6,8, paragraphs 28-35, disclosing the UE receiving a “plurality of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) transmissions” and performing “parallel multicast measurement[s]” on them, teaching the recited “UE”) receive one or more multicast broadcast services (MBSs) (Figs. 5,6,8, paragraphs 28-35, disclosing the UE receiving a “plurality of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) transmissions” and performing “parallel multicast measurement[s]” on them) ; receive one or more messages including one or more measurement configurations for the one or more MBSs (Figs. 5,6,8, paragraphs 28-35, disclosing the UE receiving a “plurality of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) transmissions” and performing “parallel multicast measurement[s]” on them; paragraphs 95-120, disclosing that in step 504, the UE receives “a configuration for performing parallel multicast measurements of MBMS transmissions” from the network node 115, where such “configuration” may configure or re-configure the one or more MBMS measurements [paragraph 98], teaching the recited “one or more messages including more than one measurement configurations …”, pursuant to BRI; also see steps 608 and 610, and step 804, paragraphs 145, 160-176, all teaching this limitation) ; perform measurements for the one or more MBSs based on the one or more measurement configurations (Figs. 5,6,8, paragraphs 28-35, steps 506,508,610,612: “perform the plurality of parallel multicast measurements of the plurality of MBMS transmissions …”, teaching this limitation); and drop one or more measurement reports having a lower priority among the measurement reports (Figs. 5,6,8, paragraphs 28-35, steps 506,508,610,612: “perform the plurality of parallel multicast measurements of the plurality of MBMS transmissions …”; further see paragraphs 31,146-153, 218, 229, disclosing prioritizing and dropping MBMS measurements, teaching this limitation) Siomina does not appear to explicitly disclose RRC messages; wherein a measurement report corresponding to each of the measurements is associated with a priority. Awada discloses RRC messages (paragraph 68); wherein a measurement report corresponding to each of the measurements is associated with a priority (paragraphs 79-80, 87, disclosing indicating “frequencies with higher or lower priority for measuring and reporting”, teaching this limitation). Before the effective filing date, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to utilize the teachings as disclosed in Awada, in conjunction with the method as disclosed and taught by Siomina, to reject the limitations of this claim. In particular, the messages disclosed in Siomina’s teaching of “receive one or more messages including more than one measurement configurations associated with the more than one MBSs” may be combined/incorporated with, and/or embodied by, the RRC messages disclosed in Awada, to reject “receive one or more RRC messages including one or more measurement configurations for the more than one MBSs”, at least since RRC messages in Awada are employed for control signaling, much like the messages disclosed in Siomina’s teachings, and because both Awada and Siomina are in the same field of endeavor with regard to quality measurement services. For similar reasons, it would also have been obvious to a phosita to combine/incorporate Awada’s teaching of “wherein a measurement report corresponding to each of the measurements is associated with a priority” with/in the measurement report related features in Siomina to reject this claim. The suggestion/motivation would have been to improve the quality and efficiency of wireless control signaling and quality measurements. (Seo, paragraphs 1-25; Awada, paragraphs 1-45). Furthermore, please note that the features of the limitations above have been shown to be known or disclosed in the cited references, and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention. As to claim 48, see rejection for claim 49. Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to CHI TANG P CHENG whose telephone number is (571)272-9021. The examiner can normally be reached M-F, 9:30AM - 6PM. Examiner interviews are available via telephone, in-person, and video conferencing using a USPTO supplied web-based collaboration tool. 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