REMARKS
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`This Amendment is fully responsive to the non-final Office Action dated December 11,
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`2019, issued in connection with the above-identified application. The fee for a two-month
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`extension of time is included. Claims 1-14 are pending in the present application. With this
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`Amendment, claims 15 and 16 have been added. The new claims added are fully supported by
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`the Applicant’s disclosure (e.g., paragraphs [0119]—[0120] of the present application). Therefore,
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`no new matter has been introduced. Favorable reconsideration is respectfully requested.
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`In the Office Action, claims 1-4, 7-10, 13, and 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as
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`being unpatentable over Kwon et al. (US 2017/0171070, hereafter “K1”), Yonge et al. (US
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`2005/0114489, hereafter “Y1”), and further in view of (“MMT-Based Media Transport Scheme
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`in Digital Broadcasting Systems,” hereafter “ARIB”).
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`The Applicant respectfully traverses the rejection under 35 U.S.C. 103.
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`Independent claim 1 recites the following features:
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`“A transmission method comprising:
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`generating a frame for transfer in which one or more first internet protocol (IP) packets
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`and one or more second IP packets are stored, the one or more first IP packets storing content,
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`and each of the one or more second IP packets including first reference clock information which
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`indicates a time for playing back the content, and
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`transmitting the generated frame through broadcasting including attaching, to each of the
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`one or more first IP packets and each of the one or more second IP packets, a context identifier
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`indicating a preset fixed value in accordance with a type of an IP data flow,
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`wherein second reference clock information is stored in control information in a physical
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`layer and the control information is transmitted, and
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`in the generating, header compression is performed on the one or more first IP packets
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`and the header compression is not performed on the one or more second IP packets.” (Emphasis
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`added).
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`The features emphasized above in independent claim 1 are similarly recited in
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`independent claims 7, 13, and 14. Independent claim 13 is directed to a transmission apparatus
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`reciting the same features noted above in independent claim 1. Independent claim 7 and 14 are
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`directed respectively to a reception method and a reception apparatus that receive the second
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`reference clock information stored in control information in a physical layer emphasized above
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`in independent claim 1.
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`The features recited in independent claims 1, 7, l3, and 14 are believed to be
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`distinguished from the cited prior art at least with regard respectively reciting the transmitting
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`and receiving of second reference clock information stored in control information in a
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`physical layer.
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`In the Office Action, although the Examiner relies on the combination of K1, Y1, and
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`ARIB for disclosing or suggesting all the features recited in independent claims 1, 7, l3, and 14,
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`the Examiner appears to rely specifically on Yl for disclosing or suggesting the transmitting and
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`receiving of second reference clock information stored in control information in a physical layer.
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`In particular, the Examiner relies on paragraph [0005] of Y1.
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`Y1 in paragraph [0005], in relevant part, discloses that a sub-frame can be divided into a
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`plurality of pieces including dividing the sub-frame into a plurality of sub-blocks, and forming at
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`least some pieces from a plurality of sub-blocks. As described in Y1, each piece may constitute a
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`segment that is transmitted as a physical layer block and each piece may be transmitted as a
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`physical layer block. The parity pieces may also be transmitted as parity physical layer blocks.
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`Additionally, each sub-frame may further include a delivery time stamp associated with at least
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`some payloads. Yl also discloses that clock information characterizing the time setting of a
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`clock in a transmitting station may be transmitted to a receiving station within a header of the
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`low level data units. The clock information may be used by the receiving station along with the
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`delivery time stamps to establish the time at which payloads are delivered.
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`In the Office Action, the Examiner appears to interpret the clock information described in
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`paragraph [0005] of Y1 as corresponding to the second reference clock information as recited
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`respectively in independent claims 1, 7, l3, and 14.
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`Based on a review of Y1, the Applicant asserts that the reference does not disclose or
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`suggest storing the clock information in a physical layer, as suggested by the Examiner.
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`In Yl, the disclosed layers include an upper level layer, a lower level layer, and a
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`physical layer. The clock information (i.e., the claimed second reference clock information)
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`disclosed in Y1 is stored in a lower level data unit (e.g., lower level layer), not in the physical
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`layer.
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`To the contrary, independent claims 1, 7, 13, and 14 recite respectively transmitting and
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`receiving of “second reference clock information stored in control information in a physical
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`layer.”
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`Accordingly, Y1 neither discloses nor suggests the feature of storing reference clock
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`information in two different layers of an IP packet layer and a physical layer, as recited in
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`independent claims 1, 7, 13, and 14.
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`As noted above, although the Examiner relies on the combination of K1, Y1, and ARIB
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`for disclosing or suggesting all the features recited in independent claims 1, 7, 13, and 14, the
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`Examiner appears to rely specifically on Y1 for disclosing or suggesting second reference clock
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`information stored in control information in a physical layer.
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`Thus, based on the deficiencies noted above in Y1, no combination of K1, Y1, and ARIB
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`would result in, or otherwise render obvious, all the features now recited in independent claims
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`1, 7, 13, and 14. Additionally, no combination of K1, Y1 and ARIB would result in, or
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`otherwise render obvious, all the features of claims 2-4 and 8-10 at least by their virtue of their
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`respective dependencies from independent claims 1 and 7.
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`In the Office Action, claims 5, 6, 11, and 12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being
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`unpatentable over K1, Y1, and ARIB, and further in view of Vare et al. (US 2007/0268874,
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`hereafter “Vare”).
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`Claims 5 and 6 depend from independent claim 1, and claims 11 and 12 depend from
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`independent claim 7.
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`As noted above, K1, Y1, and ARIB fail to disclose or suggest all the features recited in
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`independent claims 1 and 11 (as amended). Additionally, Vare fails to overcome the deficiencies
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`noted above in the combination of K1, Y1, and ARIB. Accordingly, no combination of K1, Y1,
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`and ARIB would result in, or otherwise render obvious, all the features of claims 5, 6, 11 and 12
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`at least by virtue of their respective dependencies from independent claims 1 and 11.
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`With regard to new dependent claims 15 and 16. Claim 15 depends indirectly from
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`independent claim 1, and independent claim 16 depends indirectly from independent claim 7.
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`Accordingly, new claims 15 and 16 are believed to be distinguished from the cited prior art at
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`least by virtue of their respective dependencies from independent claims 1 and 7.
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`In light of the above, the Applicant submits that all the pending claims are patentable
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`over the prior art of record. The Applicant respectfully requests that the Examiner withdraw the
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`rejections presented in the outstanding Office Action and pass the present application to issue.
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`The Examiner is invited to contact the undersigned attorney by telephone in order to resolve any
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`issues remaining in the application.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Mark D. Pratt/
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`2020.05.08 1 1:39:52 -04'00'
`Mark D. Pratt
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`Registration No. 45,794
`Attorney for Applicant
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