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`14/630,210
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`02/24/2015
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`MASATAKA IRIE
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`731156462
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`9493
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`Seed IP Law Group LLPflDanasonic
`701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5400
`Seattle, WA 98104
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`NGUYEN, BAO G
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`PAPER NUIVIBER
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`ART UNIT
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`2461
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`Application/Control Number: 14/630,210
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`1.
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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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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Claim Objections
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`2.
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`Claim 2 objected to because of the following informalities: The first use of the
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`abbreviation “SN” needs to be changed to “signal to noise (SN)”. Appropriate correction
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`is required.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`3.
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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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`4.
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`Claim(s) 1-4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by
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`Stirling-Gallacher (Pub No 20100210219)
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`Regarding claim 1 and 4,
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`Stirling-Gallacher teaches a wireless communication method for performing
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`communication between a respective plurality of base stations and a corresponding
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`plurality of terminal stations, each base station having a plurality of beams and being
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`capable of switching the plurality of beams, the method comprising:
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`selectively switching a combination of beams used by the respective base
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`stations among a plurality of combinations of beams and transmitting, synchronously
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`and sequentially, training frames to the plurality of terminal stations (interpreted as the
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`soft values of all antenna combinations can be stored in a table as a ranked list.
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`This list may also be stored at the transmitter additionally or supplementary, see
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`para [0153]);
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`storing information representing the plurality of combinations of beams for the
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`plurality of base stations based on a result of reception of the training frames; and
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`selecting, from the stored information representing the combinations of beams for the
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`plurality of base stations, a combination of beams that provides a best overall
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`performance of the plurality of base stations, and allowing it to perform communication
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`to be performed between the plurality of base stations and corresponding terminal
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`stations (interpreted as During the feedback burst, the receiver identifies the
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`antenna beams with the best transmission quality and sends these results to the
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`transmitter via a back channel. The results are favorably forwarded in form of an
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`ordered list of the best transmitter possibilities, see para [0085]).
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`Regarding claim 2,
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`Stirling-Gallacher teaches the wireless communication method according to
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`Claim 1, wherein the result of the reception of the training frames includes a beam
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`number (interpreted as after each iteration the number of predetermined antenna
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`beams to be used is reduced; therefore, the number of antenna beams used in
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`the transmitter training burst 31a (Q CSF) is larger than the number of antenna
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`beams used in the transmitter training burst 31b (N CSF). This is the same for the
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`receiver training burst 33a (Q CSF), which is larger than the number of antenna
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`beams used in the receiver training burst 33b (N CSF). Formula wise, it can be
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`written S&lt;M&lt;N&lt;Q, whereby each of the letters 8, M, N, O is a natural
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`number and stands for a number of beams to be tested during its own iteration,
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`see para [0080] and fig. 4) and an SN ratio (interpreted as favorably, the evaluation
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`of the at least one signal link depends on the signal power, the signal to noise
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`ratio, see para [0022])
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`Regarding claim 3,
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`Stirling-Gallacher teaches thewireless communication method according to Claim
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`1, wherein the overall performance of the plurality of base stations is a sum of
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`throughputs of the respective base stations (interpreted as Favorably, the evaluation
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`of the at least one signal link depends on the signal power, the signal to noise
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`ratio, the carrier to interference ratio, the line of sight ratio, the channel window
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`size and/or the estimated channel delay spread of the channel delay profile, see
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`para [0022]).
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`Conclusion
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`Examiner, Art Unit 2461
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