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`16/088,004
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`09/24/2018
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`Prateek BASU MALLICK
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`736456.467USPC
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`Seed IP Law Group LLP/Panason1e (PIPCA)
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`BASSETT' DANIEL G
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`ART UNIT
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`2646
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`Application No.
`16/088,004
`Examiner
`DANIEL G BASSETT
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`BASU MALLICK et al.
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined
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`under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35
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`U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any
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`correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of
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`rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be
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`the same under either status.
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that
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`form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an
`application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the
`patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed
`before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
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`Claims 1-6, 8-11, 13 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being
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`anticipated by Soret et al. (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2017/0041916),
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`henceforth referred to as Soret.
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`Regarding claim 1, Soret teaches a vehicular mobile terminal for determining
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`radio resources for communicating with at least a second mobile terminal in a
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`communication system (see [0015] “a method for operating a mobile radio device,
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`comprising:
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`sending a transmission from the mobile radio device on a wireless
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`shared radio access channel using the selected radio access resource”), wherein the
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`vehicular mobile terminal comprises:
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`a processor configured to determine whether to determine radio resources based
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`on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not (see [0059] “These are non-
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`limiting embodiments in which the teachings herein are deployed specifically to
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`advantage vehicle communications and so the specific location areas to which are
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`associated access resources are sections of the busiest roads in the cell. Other portions
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`of the cell, including some less-travelled roads, may use conventional random access
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`procedures side by side with these”), wherein the determination is based on information
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`received from an entity of the communication system (see [0040] “the network
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`distributes to all the mobile radio devices in a given access region (cell, building,
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`roadway, etc.) the association of radio access resources to the different location areas
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`of the access region, for example by broadcasting it in System Information if the
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`association is specific to individual cells, or being published in a wireless standard if the
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`association is more generic across cells”),
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`in case the radio resources are to be selected based on the location of the
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`vehicular mobile terminal, the processor is further configured to determine the location
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`of the vehicular mobile terminal (see [0038] “The location/position information can be
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`obtained by the mobile radio device (either completely itself or with an assistance
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`information received from the network)”), and
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`the processor is further configured to determine radio resources for
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`communication with at least the second mobile terminal, based on the determined
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`location of the vehicular mobile terminal (see [0061] “The mobile radio device would
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`then use its location/position information to determine a sector/location area and use the
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`algorithm or map to find the radio access resource associated with that sector/location
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`area of the overall access region.”).
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`Regarding claim 2, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the information received by the vehicular mobile terminal from the
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`entity in the communication system is:
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`provided in system information, broadcast by a radio base station in its cell in
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`which the vehicular mobile terminal is located, wherein the information is a flag
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`indicating whether to base the determination of the radio resources on the location of
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`the vehicular mobile terminal or not (see [0040] “the network distributes to all the mobile
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`radio devices in a given access region (cell, building, roadway, etc.) the association of
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`radio access resources to the different location areas of the access region, for example
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`by broadcasting it in System Information if the association is specific to individual
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`cells”), or
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`information on parameters to be used by the vehicular mobile terminal when
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`determining the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or when determining the radio
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`resources (see [0029] “an association between discrete location areas within an access
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`region and specific radio access resources, and this association is distributed among
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`the various radio devices for storage in their local memory”).
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`Regarding claim 3, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the processor determines the location of the vehicular mobile terminal
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`by determining geographical coordinates of the vehicular mobile terminal and/or
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`by identifying a section of a road on which the vehicular mobile terminal is
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`located (see Fig. 2, Fig. 3A, and [0063] “In the FIG. 2 example the roadway is divided
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`into N consecutive segments. The access resource selection algorithm, when designed
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`with the access resource reuse considerations and the closeness of the location areas
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`mentioned above, would ensure that the mobile radio devices in vehicles closest to one
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`but in different location areas another will always be using different access resources.”).
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`Regarding claim 4, the vehicular mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein
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`identifying the section of the road on which the vehicular mobile terminal is located
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`comprises:
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`determining geographical coordinates of the vehicular mobile terminal (see
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`[0038] “The location/position information can be obtained by the mobile radio device
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`(either completely itself or with an assistance information received from the network)”),
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`and
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`determining the section of the road based on an association between the
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`determined geographical coordinates of the vehicular mobile terminal and a plurality of
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`sections a road is divided into (see Fig. 2, Fig. 3A, and [0063] “In the FIG. 2 example
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`the roadway is divided into N consecutive segments. The access resource selection
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`algorithm, when designed with the access resource reuse considerations and the
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`closeness of the location areas mentioned above, would ensure that the mobile radio
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`devices in vehicles closest to one but in different location areas another will always be
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`using different access resources.”).
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`Regarding claim 5, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the determination of the radio resources comprises selecting by the
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`vehicular mobile terminal radio resources from among radio resources defined in a radio
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`resource pool which is associated with the determined location of the vehicular mobile
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`terminal (see [0039] “In any practical radio communication system there will be a finite
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`number of such access resources, and for purposes of explanation consider there are a
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`total integer number of N access resources available for use in a given access region.
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`The access resources can be further grouped into resource pools, depending on the air-
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`interface design and numerology” and [0055] “For example, a subset of ARs is selected
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`based on the mobile radio device's location/position information, and a particular AR
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`from the selected subset is chosen using a different method, such as for example
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`random selection by the mobile radio device or a more sophisticated algorithm stored in
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`the devices local memory”).
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`Regarding claim 6, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 5, wherein the vehicular mobile terminal is configured with a plurality of radio
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`resource pools, each of which is associated with a different location in which the
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`vehicular mobile terminal can be located, wherein the configuration of the radio
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`resource pools is transmitted to the vehicular mobile terminal as system information or
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`within a message dedicated to the vehicular mobile terminal (see [0032] “By assigning
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`to a radio device a specific access resource from the available set of orthogonal access
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`resources by taking into account the radio device's position/location information”),
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`wherein the plurality of radio resource pools are configured in the vehicular
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`mobile terminal either by providing explicit information on the radio resource pools and
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`the respective radio resources in each radio resource pool or based on rules defining
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`how radio resources are divided into the plurality of radio resource pools (see [0037]
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`“The access by these multiple devices is such that in certain example embodiments
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`below the association of the radio access resources with different discrete location
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`areas of a given access region is distributed among the mobile radio devices in the
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`given access region who each store it in their own local memories; in this way the
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`mobile radio devices can select the access resource corresponding to their own
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`position”).
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`Regarding claim 8, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the processor, when determining radio resources, is further configured
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`to determine whether potential radio resources are or will be used by another mobile
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`terminal, and in case the potential radio resources are or will be used by another mobile
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`terminal, the processor is configured to not determine these radio resources but
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`determine different radio resources (see [0032] “By assigning to a radio device a
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`specific access resource from the available set of orthogonal access resources by
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`taking into account the radio device's position/location information, it can be arranged
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`that different access resources will be assigned to radio devices that are located close
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`to but still some minimum distance apart from one another.” and [0071] “the approach
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`described herein of using a distributed access resource selection algorithm reduces the
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`probability of radio access collision, even to the point of zero collisions when the total
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`number N of available ARs is greater than or equal to the number of lanes times the
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`range/distance. This reduction is due to using the mobile radio device's location/position
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`information which is unique to each device”).
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`Regarding claim 9, the vehicular mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein
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`the determination of the radio resources comprises selecting by the vehicular mobile
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`terminal radio resources from among radio resources defined in a radio resource pool
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`which is associated with the determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal, and in
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`case potential radio resources that are or will not be used by another mobile terminal
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`are not available in the associated radio resource pool, the processor is adapted to
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`select radio resources from another radio resource pool which is associated with
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`another location than the location of the vehicular mobile terminal, wherein the other
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`location is right next to the location of the vehicular mobile terminal (see [0073]
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`“Whether the algorithm outputs an index or the preamble itself, the UE learns from the
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`output of the algorithm which of the 20 preambles it should transmit on the RACH. A
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`second UE in an adjacent location area will learn from its identical algorithm a different
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`preamble associated with that adjacent location area corresponding to the
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`location/position information of that second UE, and so even if both UEs transmit on the
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`RACH at the exact same moment there will be no collision because they will use
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`different preambles.”).
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`Regarding claim 10, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the location of the vehicular mobile terminal is based on a grid
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`overlaying a road on which the vehicular mobile terminal is located, wherein a part of
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`the road on which the vehicular mobile terminal is located is divided into a plurality of
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`sections, wherein each of the plurality of sections covers all lanes of the road, wherein
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`all of the plurality of sections are subdivided into the same plurality of non-overlapping
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`subsections, wherein each of the plurality of subsections covers at least one of the
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`lanes of the road, and wherein each of the plurality of subsections is associated with a
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`radio resource pool (see Fig. 2, 3A, and [0064] “there are N=8 total access resources
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`available for geographic location areas defined by the illustrated two-lane road. Each
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`number 0 through 8 may be considered an index to one of those unique access
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`resources, and the associated geographic location area is the lane of the road between
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`the two dotted lines where the index lies.”).
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`Regarding claim 11, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 10, wherein the radio resources associated with the plurality of subsections are
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`orthogonal to each other, and the sections and the subsections are such that the radio
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`resources associated with the subsections mitigate interference between neighboring
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`sections, and wherein the division of the plurality of sections into subsections assumes
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`that one vehicular mobile terminal is located in each subsection, or assumes that more
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`than one vehicular mobile terminal is located in each subsection (see Fig. 2 and [0063]
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`“The access resource selection algorithm, when designed with the access resource
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`reuse considerations and the closeness of the location areas mentioned above, would
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`ensure that the mobile radio devices in vehicles closest to one but in different location
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`areas another will always be using different access resources. 80 for example if a
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`vehicle 1 within geographic region 202 of FIG. 2 were attempting to access the radio
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`access channel at the same instant as a vehicle 2 within geographic region 204 of FIG.
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`2, they would both be using ARf but since the geographic location areas are beyond
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`their V2X radio transmission range their transmissions may not collide in fact.”).
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`Regarding claim 13, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether the vehicular
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`mobile terminal is in coverage or out of coverage of a radio base station, and in case of
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`out-of-coverage, the processor determines that the radio resources are not to be
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`selected based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal (see [0060] “the UE
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`seeking to access the radio access channel would first check its position/location to
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`determine which access protocol/procedure to utilize. If the check shows the UE is on
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`the road (or is within some otherwise defined first-designated portion of the cell) it would
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`select the random access procedure which uses the UE's position/location as an input
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`as described herein to select an access resource, and if the check shows the UE is not
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`on the road (or is within some different second-designated portion of the cell) it would
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`select a different random access procedure that selects the access resource
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`independently of the UE's location within the cell” and [0080] “In such a hybrid
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`deployment the mobile radio device's implementation of the flow diagram of FIG. 6 may
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`be conditional on the mobile radio device checking that its location/position information
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`is within any of the discrete location areas within the access region/cell.”).
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all
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`obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
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`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.
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`Claims 7, 12, and 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable
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`over Soret as applied to claims 1 and 9 above, and further in view of Niska et al. (U.S.
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`Patent Application Publication No. 2009/0275332), henceforth referred to as Niska.
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`Regarding claim 7, Soret does not teach the vehicular mobile terminal according
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`to claim 1, wherein the determination of the radio resources comprises:
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`requesting radio resources from a radio base station that controls the cell in
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`which the vehicular mobile terminal is located,
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`transmitting information on the determined location of the vehicular mobile
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`terminal to the radio base station, wherein the information on the determined location is
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`geographical coordinates or an identifier of a section of a road on which the vehicular
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`receiving from the radio base station an indication of radio resources to be used
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`for communication with at least the second mobile terminal.
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`Niska teaches sending a registration request to an access network controller
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`containing one or more location identifiers for the mobile station and receiving a
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`registration accept containing absolute radio frequency channel numbers (ARFCN) and
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`base station identity codes (BSIC) values from a table based on the location identifiers,
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`(see [0050] and Fig. 7B and 7C). Niska further teaches that the location identifiers can
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`be GSM Cell Global Identity (GSM CGI), unlicensed-radio access point (AP) Radio
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`Identity (AP-ID), Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates or AP location (see
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`[0023D.
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`Before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, it would have been
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`obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to modify the vehicular mobile terminal
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`according to claim 1, as taught by Soret, to further comprise sending a registration
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`request to an access network control (requesting radio resources from a radio base
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`station that controls the cell in which the vehicular mobile terminal is located), wherein
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`the request contains one or more MS location identifiers that comprise GPS coordinates
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`(transmitting information on the determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal to
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`the radio base station, wherein the information on the determined location is
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`geographical coordinates or an identifier of a section of a road on which the vehicular
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`mobile terminal is located), and receiving a registration request containing absolute
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`radio frequency channel numbers and base station identity codes (receiving from the
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`least the second mobile terminal). Doing so allows the base station to determine optimal
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`assignment of radio resources based on location of terminals, offloading processing and
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`storage requirements from the vehicular mobile terminal to the entity of the
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`communications network.
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`The Examiner notes that claim 12 recites “further comprising that transmitting the
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`determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal to the radio base station” creates
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`an dependency upon claim 7. However, the Examiner is viewing this as a typographic
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`error and that the claim should instead recite “further comprising transmitting the
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`determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal to the radio base station”. In the
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`case the Examiners interpretation of the claim is incorrect, claim 12 would have a
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`further 35 U.S.C. 112(b) rejection based on lack of antecedent basis from not being
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`dependent upon claim 7, which could not be corrected merely by making claim 12
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`dependent upon claim 7 due to the other limitation that is dependent upon claims 8 and
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`9.
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`Regarding claim 12, Soret teaches the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 9, wherein determining the location of the vehicular mobile terminal comprises
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`determining an identifier of the section and/or an identifier of the subsection in which the
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`vehicular mobile terminal is located (see [0049] “lane_number is the lane identifier that
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`the car occupies (with two lanes, it can be for example 0 or 1)”, [0059] “identifiers of
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`access resources associated with each of these discrete location areas”, [0064] “Each
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`resources, and the associated geographic location area is the lane of the road between
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`the two dotted lines where the index lies.” and Fig. 3A).
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`However, Soret does not teach the vehicular mobile terminal according to claim
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`9, further comprising transmitting the determined location of the vehicular mobile
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`terminal to the radio base station comprises transmitting the identifier of the section
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`and/or the identifier of the subsection.
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`Soret teaches dividing a region into indexed sections associated with unique
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`access resources (see [0064] and Fig. 3A).
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`Niska teaches sending a registration request containing one or more location
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`identifiers for the mobile station (see [0050] and Fig. 78).
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`Before the effective filing date of the claim invention, it would have been obvious
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`to one of ordinary skill of art to modify the vehicular mobile terminal according to claim
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`9, as taught by Soret, further comprise sending a registration request containing
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`location identifiers that indicate the specific indexed section the vehicular mobile
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`terminal is in (transmitting the identifier of the section and/or the identifier of the
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`subsection), based on the teachings of Soret and Niska. Doing so allows the base
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`station to determine optimal assignment of radio resources based on location of
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`terminals, offloading processing and storage requirements from the vehicular mobile
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`terminal to the entity of the communications network.
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`Regarding 14, Soret does not teach the vehicular mobile terminal according to
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`claim 1, wherein the entity of the communication system determines whether radio
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`resources to be used by the vehicular mobile terminal for communicating with at least
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`the second mobile terminal are to be determined based on the location of the vehicular
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`mobile terminal or not, and wherein information on the result of the determination is
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`provided by the entity in the communication system to the vehicular mobile terminal,
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`wherein the entity of the communication system is the radio control entity that controls
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`the cell in which the vehicular mobile terminal is located, or is an entity in the control
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`network.
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`Soret teaches specific locations areas being associated with access resources
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`and other portions of the cell using conventional random access procedures (see
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`[0059D.
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`Niska teaches sending a registration request to an access network controller
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`containing one or more location identifiers for the mobile station and receiving a
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`registration accept containing absolute radio frequency channel numbers (ARFCN) and
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`base station identity codes (BSIC) values from a table based on the location identifiers,
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`(see [0050] and Fig. 7B and 7C). Niska further teaches that the location identifiers can
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`be GSM Cell Global Identity (GSM CGI), unlicensed-radio access point (AP) Radio
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`Identity (AP-ID), Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates or AP location (see
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`[0023D.
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`Before the effective filing date of the claim invention, it would have been obvious
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`to one of ordinary skill of art to modify the vehicular mobile terminal according to claim
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`1, as taught by Soret, to further comprise the access network controller to determine
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`access resources based on the location of the mobile terminal in specific portions of a
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`cell (wherein the entity of the communication system determines whether radio
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`resources to be used by the vehicular mobile terminal for communicating with at least
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`the second mobile terminal are to be determined based on the location of the vehicular
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`mobile terminal or not) and sending a registration accept to the mobile terminal with
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`access resources based upon the mobile terminals location (wherein information on the
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`result of the determination is provided by the entity in the communication system to the
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`vehicular mobile terminal, wherein the entity of the communication system is the radio
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`control entity that controls the cell in which the vehicular mobile terminal is located, or is
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`an entity in the control network), based on the teachings of Soret and Niska. Doing so
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`allows the base station to determine optimal assignment of radio resources based on
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`location of terminals in the busiest portions of the cell, and offloading processing and
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`storage requirements from the vehicular mobile terminal to the entity of the
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`communications network.
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`Claims 15-17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over
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`Soret.
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`Regarding claim 15, Soret teaches a radio base station in a communication
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`system (see Fig. 7 access node 12) for assisting a vehicular mobile terminal in
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`determining radio resources for communicating with at least a second mobile terminal in
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`the communication system (see [0082] “In the wireless system shown at FIG. 7 a
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`wireless network is adapted for communication over a wireless link 14 with an
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`apparatus such as a mobile radio communication device”), wherein the radio base
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`a transmitter configured to transmit information to the vehicular mobile terminal,
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`based on which the vehicular mobile terminal determines whether to determine radio
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`resources based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not (see [0040] “the
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`network distributes to all the mobile radio devices in a given access region (cell,
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`building, roadway, etc.) the association of radio access resources to the different
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`location areas of the access region, for example by broadcasting it in System
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`Information if the association is specific to individual cells, or being published in a
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`wireless standard if the association is more generic across cells”).
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`However, Soret does not teach wherein the radio base station comprises:
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`a processor configured to determine whether radio resources are to be
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`determined based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not, wherein the
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`determination is at least based on information on vehicular mobile terminals in the cell
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`of the radio base station.
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`Soret teaches that one technique for UEs to access a shared radio access
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`channel is to have the radio network supervising the process in a centralized way (see
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`[0002]). Soret further teaches assigning access resources to specific locations and
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`using conventional random access procedures for other locations (see [0059]).
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`Before the effective filing date of the claim invention, it would have been obvious
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`to one of ordinary skill of art to modify the radio base station, as taught by Soret, to
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`further comprise a processer configured to assigning access resources to specific
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