`Reply to Office Action Dated November 12, 2020
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`REMARKS
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`Applicant respectfully requests reconsideration of this application in view of the above
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`amendments and the following remarks. Claims 1-15 will be pending upon entry ofthis
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`amendment. Claims 1, 3 and 13-15 are amended. No new matter has been addedto the
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`application.
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`35 USC.
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`§112(f)
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`is Not Invoked
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`The office has interpreted the claim term “mapper” as used in claims 1 and 13 as
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`invoking 35 U.S.C. §112(f). Applicant did not intend to invoke 35 U.S.C. §112(f) and has
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`amended claims | and 13, as set forth above, by replacing the claim term in question with
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`“mapping circuitry,” which clearly connotes structure, to make it more clear that 35 U.S.C.
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`§112(f) is not invoked.
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`Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are Overcome
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`Claims 1-2, 4-11, and 13-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over
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`Yang et al. (US 2014/0086119) in view of Shenet al. (US 2012/0135773).
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`Claims 3 and 12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Yang and
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`Shen as applied to claim 2 above, and further in view of Yin et al. (US 2013/0083736).
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`Applicant has amendedindependentclaims 1 and 13-15 to more particularly recite that “a
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`first number of TTIs mapped onto the uplink subframeis larger than a second numberof TTIs
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`for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe.” Support for the claimed subject
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`matter is found, for example, in FIGS. 10 and 11, reproduced below, andthe related description
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`in the application asfiled:
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`Application No. 16/089,279
`Reply to Office Action Dated November 12, 2020
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`Fig. 90
`B
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`Fig. 74
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`For example, FIG. 10 shows two examples, in which either “3 short UL TTIs” or “1 short
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`UL TTI”is used for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe (‘UpPTS”). FIG. 11
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`illustrates four examples, in which any of 14, 7, 4 or 2 short TTIs are used for mapping onto one
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`uplink subframe. That is, the combination of FIGS. 10 and 11 andtheir related description
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`disclose the novel configuration of having a “larger” number of TTIs mapped onto an uplink
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`subframe (e.g., 14, 7, 4 or 2 TTIs) than a number of TTIs for mapping onto the uplink portion of
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`a special subframe(e.g., 3 or 1 TTI(s)). One technical advantage of the claimed configuration is
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`to address “a relatively high latency which is caused by limited resources for transmitting
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`ACK/NACKfeedback on the uplink.., [the] latency ... due to less opportunities for the uplink
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`data.” (See [0081] of the application as published, US Pub. No. 2020/03 14840).
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`Application No. 16/089,279
`Reply to Office Action Dated November 12, 2020
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`Such is not taught or suggested by any ofthe prior art cited against the present
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`application. For example, while the office has found that Shen, in fig. 6 and paragraphs 57-60,
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`teaches “the second portion of the special subframeis shorter (half as long) than the full TTI of
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`an UL subframe”(Office Action, page 6), Shenis silent as to providing a larger number of TTIs
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`mapped onto an uplink subframe than a number of TTIs for mapping onto the uplink portion of a
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`special subframe. Yang and Yin too are silent on the claimed subject matter and thusfail to cure
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`the deficiencies of Shen.
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`Therefore, claims 1 and 13-15, as amended, are now believed to be clearly allowable over
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`the prior art. Allowance of claims 1 and 13-15 as well as claims 2-12 that depend from
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`allowable claim 1 is respectfully requested.
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`Conclusion
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`Forat least these reasons, Applicant respectfully requests allowance of the pending claims.
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`In the event the Examinerfinds minor informalities that can be resolved by telephone conference
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`or if the Examinerbelieves a telephone conference would facilitate prosecution of this application,
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`the Examiner is urged to contact Applicant’s undersigned representative by telephone at (206)
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`622-4900 in order to expeditiously resolve prosecution of this application.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Lip
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`/Shoko Leek/
`Shoko I. Leek
`Registration No. 43,746
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`701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5400
`Seattle, Washington 98104
`Phone: (206) 622-4900 | Fax:
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`(206) 682-6031
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`SILjh1
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