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Reference: Unified Patents PATROLL (July 7, 2023) v. US-8,614,667-B2 (Gametronics LLC, a Jeffrey Gross entity, focused on claim 10.), priority date: June 27, 2006


validityGPT answered:


Perspective 1

 

Based on the provided context, none of the patents listed appear to have claims that share significant similarities with the claim in question. Every claim listed in the context pertains to telecommunications or wireless technology, involving elements such as transmitters, receivers, antennas, and wireless interfaces.

In contrast, the claim in question describes a physical device with a housing, a movable controller, a concave surface, and a plurality of impressions that define distinct directions in which the controller can be moved. This does not exhibit any clear alignment with the technologies disclosed in the provided patents. While both the claim in question and the patents refer to apparatuses and controllers, the context in which these terms are used differ greatly, with one being a physical device and the others being telecommunication systems.

Hence, there doesn't seem to be any prior art argument for this case based on the provided context and legal grounds.

However, in a hypothetical scenario, if there were a patent claim that described a similar physical device with a movable controller and distinct directional impressions, it could serve as a valid prior art reference under 
[35 USC 102(a)]. This could be used to argue that the claim in question is neither novel nor non-obvious, therefore invalidating it under [35 USC 102(b)] and [35 USC 103(a)]. If the prior art reference fully disclosed all elements of the claim in question, an anticipation argument could be made under [35 USC 102(c)]. If there were evidence of public use of a similar device before the filing date, it could render the claim non-novel under [35 USC 102(d)]. Potential arguments for the EPO legal ground could include lack of novelty and lack of inventive step under [Article 54 EPC] and [Article 56 EPC] respectively.


Perspective 2

 

Based on the provided context, there are no similar phrases or technologies found that could be used for legal prior art arguments against the initial patent claim. The initial claim pertains to an apparatus for generating a data signal with a specific physical control mechanism, while the patents in the context mostly relate to wireless communication and data transmission, antenna configurations, and encoding methods. None of the provided patents disclose or discuss a similar process or method as in the initial claim.

Below are the details:

[Patent 10158458, Claim 14] discusses a transmitter device mapping data according to different sequence patterns. This does not teach or disclose an apparatus with a moveable controller or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 9178598, Claim 1] discloses a wireless transmission apparatus using precoding and spatial multiplexing. There is no mention of a moveable controller or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 9596011, Claim 1] discusses a terminal apparatus supporting a plurality of precoding schemes. This does not feature a moveable controller, concave surface, or impressions defining directions.
[Patent 8009656, Claim 1] describes a mobile station apparatus that communicates using a multicarrier scheme. There is no disclosure of a housing, controller, concave surface, or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 10951242, Claim 15] pertains to a wireless communication system apparatus encoding and transmitting punctured bits. No details are provided about a moveable controller or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 8565328, Claim 16] pertains to an apparatus for receiving channel quality information. This does not teach or disclose an apparatus with a moveable controller or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 10375529, Claim 1] discusses a method for receiving a signal of a physical downlink shared channel. This does not feature a moveable controller, concave surface, or impressions defining directions.
[Patent 10873838, Claim 13] discusses an apparatus receiving and transmitting information related to resource blocks and cyclic shifts. This does not disclose a housing, controller, concave surface, or impressions defining distinct directions.
[Patent 9226045, Claim 17] pertains to a computer program product receiving and sending video data for multiple views of a scene. This does not teach or disclose an apparatus with a moveable controller or impressions defining distinct directions.

Therefore, based on the context provided, there is no potential legal prior art against the initial patent claim under USPTO or EPO legal grounds.



References

1 US Patent 9596011: Claim Element 1. Filed by Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha on 2013-05-15 and published on 2017-03-14
Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and wireless communication system
Paragraph: A terminal apparatus that supports a plurality of precoding schemes, the terminal apparatus comprising: wireless access circuitry that receives a first plurality of offset values that each respectively correspond to each of the plurality of precoding schemes from a first base station apparatus, and that measures a received power of a first reference signal transmitted from the first base station apparatus; and wireless access control circuitry that adds, to the received power of the first reference signal from the first base station apparatus, an offset value that corresponds to a precoding scheme which both of the first base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus support, among the first plurality of offset values.
Keywords: terminal apparatus that supports a plurality of precoding schemes

2
 US Patent 8503352: Claim Element 15. Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. on 2010-10-26 and published on 2013-08-06
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving reference signal for positioning in wireless communication system
Paragraph: An apparatus of a Base Station (BS) for transmitting a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a controller for locating a Primary Advance (PA) preamble in a first symbol of a second frame among frames constituting each of multiple superframes, for locating a Secondary Advance (SA) preamble in first symbols of first and third frames among the frames constituting each of the multiple superframes, for determining a plurality of consecutive first superframes belonging to a Location-Based Service (LBS) zone from among the multiple superframes, for including a reference signal for LBS in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of the first superframes, and for including data in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of second superframes, which correspond to the multiple superframes excluding the first superframes, when the data is to be transmitted; and a transmitter for communicating with a Mobile Station (MS) by using the first and second superframes, under a control of the controller.
Keywords: Base Station (BS) for transmitting a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system,

3
 US Patent 10924225: Claim Element 20. Filed by MEDIATEK INC. on 2019-08-01 and published on 2021-02-16
Group-based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement feedback
Paragraph: An apparatus, comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive one or more first downlink control informations (DCIs) that are associated with first downlink transmissions belonging to a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback group in a wireless communication system; receive, from a base station, a first request that indicates a first group index (GI) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback group and a first HARQ-ACK transmission opportunity (TxOP); and transmit, to the base station, first acknowledge bits for acknowledging receptions of downlink transmissions belonging to the first HARQ-ACK feedback group over the first HARQ-ACK TxOP indicated by the first request.
Keywords: (HARQ-ACK) feedback group in a wireless communication system;

4
 US Patent 8130778: Claim Element 42. Filed by Qualcomm Incorporated on 2006-07-27 and published on 2012-03-06
System and method for a wireless network protocol suite
Paragraph: A computer readable storage medium encoded thereon with instructions that when executed cause an apparatus to perform a method for receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal from a wireless network, said method comprising: disseminating first control information for operation of the apparatus within the wireless network; receiving the OFDM signal comprising one or more independent data flows and second control information; and synchronizing the first control information with the second control information, wherein the first and second control information comprise a listing of neighboring wide areas and local areas, wherein wide areas comprise a plurality of transmitters radiating identical waveforms with a footprint covering one or more metropolitan areas and local areas comprise a plurality of transmitters radiating identical waveforms with a footprint that is less than the wide area.
Keywords: A computer readable storage medium encoded thereon with instructions that when executed cause an apparatus to perform a method for receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

5
 US Patent 10873838: Claim Element 13. Filed by LG Electronics Inc. on 2020-03-19 and published on 2020-12-22
Method and apparatus for transmitting PSFCH in NR V2X
Paragraph: A first apparatus configured to perform wireless communication, the first apparatus comprising: one or more memories storing instructions; one or more transceivers; and one or more processors connected to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers, wherein based on the one or more processors executing the instructions, the one or more processors control the first apparatus to: receive, from a base station, first information related to a set of resource blocks (RBs) available for the first apparatus to transmit a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) and second information related to a number of cyclic shifts available for the first apparatus to transmit the PSFCH; receive, from a second apparatus, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); determine a PSFCH resource related the PSSCH, based on the first information related to the set of RBs and the second information related to the number of cyclic shifts; and transmit, to the second apparatus, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information based on the PSFCH resource.
Keywords: A first apparatus configured to perform wireless communication,

6
 US Patent 10362602: Claim Element 8. Filed by ZTE Corporation on 2015-08-26 and published on 2019-07-23
Air channel detection method and node device
Paragraph: The device according to claim 7 , further comprising hardware performing instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium which executes steps in following unit: a third unit, configured to inform a peer device of information about a detected sub-bandwidth in the clear state by means of an air interface Physical Layer, PHY, command, after the CCA performed by the first unit detects that any one of the sub-bandwidths is in a clear state and the first unit exits from the CCA cycle detections, and receive or transmit data only on the sub-bandwidth within a next Channel Occupancy Time, COT, and after the COT, automatically release an occupied resource of the sub-bandwidth; wherein the information about a sub-bandwidth comprises one or a combination of more of the following parameters: an identity of the sub-bandwidth, a position of the sub-bandwidth and a serial number of the sub-bandwidth.
Keywords: The device according to claim 7

7
 US Patent 8009656: Claim Element 4. Filed by Panasonic Corporation on 2010-11-11 and published on 2011-08-30
Apparatus and method for providing feedback information in response to subcarrier reception
Paragraph: A feedback method performed by a mobile station apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus using a multicarrier scheme, in which the multicarrier scheme uses a plurality of divided bands in a communication band, and each divided band is composed of a plurality of subcarriers, the feedback method comprising: generating, for one or more divided bands among the plurality of divided bands, feedback information using a feedback format including a spatial multiplexing number, wherein one feedback format corresponds to one divided band; and feeding back the generated feedback information to the base station apparatus.
Keywords: feedback method performed by a mobile station apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus using a multicarrier scheme

8
 US Patent 10924225: Claim Element 12. Filed by MEDIATEK INC. on 2019-08-01 and published on 2021-02-16
Group-based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement feedback
Paragraph: A method, comprising: transmitting, by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, one or more first downlink control informations (DCIs) each associated with first downlink transmissions belonging to a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback group in a wireless communication system; transmitting, by the BS to a user equipment (UE), a first request indicating a first group index (GI) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback group and a first HARQ-ACK TxOP; and receiving, by the BS from the UE, first acknowledge bits for acknowledging receptions of downlink transmissions belonging to the first HARQ-ACK feedback group, the first acknowledge bits being transmitted by the UE and over the first HARQ-ACK TxOP indicated by the first request.
Keywords: A method,

9
 US Patent 10375529: Claim Element 1. Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC. on 2014-07-03 and published on 2019-08-06
Transmission/reception method for MTC apparatus
Paragraph: A method for receiving a signal of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method performed by a wireless device and comprising: receiving first information specifying a plurality of subframes used for the wireless device; receiving second information specifying at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe; determining multiple downlink subframes, to receive the signal of the first PDSCH, based on the plurality of subframes specified in the first information, wherein the multiple downlink subframes include at least one MBSFN subframe specified by the second information; receiving the signal of the first PDSCH which is repeated over the determined multiple downlink subframes; and if the signal of the first PDSCH includes a first system information block (SIB), determining that a signal of a second PDSCH including a data other than the first SIB is not transmitted in the determined multiple downlink subframes, wherein the first SIB is dedicated for the wireless device and different from a SIB for a user equipment (UE) used by a user.
Keywords: method for receiving a signal of a first physical downlink shared channel

10
 US Patent 10924225: Claim Element 1. Filed by MEDIATEK INC. on 2019-08-01 and published on 2021-02-16
Group-based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement feedback
Paragraph: A method, comprising: receiving, by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, one or more first downlink control informations (DCIs) that are associated with first downlink transmissions belonging to a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback group in a wireless communication system; receiving, by the UE from a base station, a first request that indicates a first group index (GI) of the first HARQ-ACK feedback group and a first HARQ-ACK transmission opportunity (TxOP); and transmitting, by the UE to the base station, first acknowledge bits for acknowledging receptions of downlink transmissions belonging to the first HARQ-ACK feedback group over the first HARQ-ACK TxOP indicated by the first request.
Keywords: A method,

11
 US Patent 9226045: Claim Element 17. Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated on 2011-06-06 and published on 2015-12-29
Signaling attributes for network-streamed video data
Paragraph: A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a device for signaling information for video data to: receive, for multimedia content, video data for a plurality of views of a scene; form a plurality of representations of the multimedia content, the plurality of representations comprising a first representation including one or more views of the plurality of views and a second representation including one or more views of the plurality of views, wherein the one or more views of the first representation are encoded differently than the one or more views of the second representation, and wherein the first and second representations conform to dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP; and send, to a client device, as a part of a manifest file for the plurality of representations of the multimedia content, information indicative of a maximum number of views in the first representation and the second representation that can be targeted for output.
Keywords: computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

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 US Patent 8503352: Claim Element 22. Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. on 2010-10-26 and published on 2013-08-06
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving reference signal for positioning in wireless communication system
Paragraph: An apparatus of a Mobile Station (MS) for receiving a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a receiver for receiving the reference signal; and a controller for detecting a Primary Advanced (PA) preamble from a first symbol of a second frame among frames constituting each of the multiple superframes, for detecting a Secondary Advance (SA) preamble from first symbols of first and third frames among the frames constituting each of the multiple superframes, for determining a plurality of consecutive first superframes belonging to a Location-Based Service (LBS) zone from among the multiple superframes when the LBS zone is enabled, for detecting the reference signal for LBS from a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of the first superframes, and for detecting data from a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of second superframes, which correspond to the multiple superframes excluding the first superframes, when the data is to be received.
Keywords: Mobile Station (MS) for receiving a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system,

13
 US Patent 10158458: Claim Element 14. Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. on 2016-05-27 and published on 2018-12-18
Systems and methods for partial collision multiple access
Paragraph: A transmitter device configured to operate in a wireless network, the transmitter device comprising: a wireless communications interface; a processor; and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer readable instructions configured to cause the transmitter device to: map data according to a first sequence pattern from a group of sequence patterns, wherein the first sequence pattern identifies a first subset of non-zero elements among a set of resource elements, the first subset being different from a second subset of non-zero elements identified by a second sequence pattern in the group, and wherein the first sequence pattern and the second sequence pattern in the group are configured to partially collide; and transmit the mapped data in the wireless network.
Keywords: transmitter device configured to operate in a wireless network

14
 US Patent 10084521: Claim Element 1. Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC. on 2014-11-04 and published on 2018-09-25
Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in wireless communication system
Paragraph: A method for transmitting a signal by a base station (BS) in a wireless access system supporting multi user-multiple input and multiple output (MU-MIMO), the method comprising: generating, by the BS, one or more first beams for one or more subgroups each containing a plurality of user equipments (UEs) using analog beamforming; generating, by the BS, a plurality of second beams from the one or more first beams using digital beamforming; and transmitting, by the BS to the UEs, signals through the plurality of second beams which are generated based on a hybrid of the analog beamforming and the digital beamforming, wherein the signals transmitted to each of the UEs are distinguished by the plurality of second beams, wherein a weight of the analog beamforming is determined based on channel state information acquired using uplink reference signals, and wherein a weight of the digital beamforming is determined based on a number of the one or more first beams and the weight of the analog beamforming.
Keywords: method for transmitting a signal by a base station (BS) in a wireless access system supporting multi user-multiple input and multiple output

15
 US Patent 10951242: Claim Element 15. Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. / POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION 2 on 2019-06-26 and published on 2021-03-16
Method and apparatus for design of punctured polar codes
Paragraph: A first apparatus of a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals; and a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to: generate an information bit, identify a bit-channel reliability of the apparatus in the wireless communication system, encode the information bit to generate a coded bit, puncture the coded bit with a puncturing pattern to generate a punctured bit, and transmit, to a second apparatus, the punctured bit, wherein the puncturing pattern satisfies a partial order obtained by combining a first partial order and a second partial order that is identified based on a binary representation relationship of bit-channel indices or satisfies a single partial order.
Keywords: first apparatus of a wireless communication system

16
 US Patent 8441993: Claim Element 20. Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. on 2009-01-21 and published on 2013-05-14
Apparatus and method for resumption request of extended real time polling service in a broadband wireless communication system
Paragraph: A Base Station (BS) apparatus in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a receiver for receiving an extended subheader including a bitmap indicating at least one extended real-time Polling Service (ertPS) connection to be resumed; and a controller for allocating uplink resources for the at least one ertPS connection identified by the extended subheader, wherein respective bits constituting the bitmap indicate one of a request for resumption and a no-request for resumption of each ertPS connection, and the bits are mapped to a Service Flow IDentifier (SFID) in one of an ascending and a descending order.
Keywords: A Base Station (BS)

17
 US Patent 8565328: Claim Element 16. Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. on 2011-12-09 and published on 2013-10-22
Apparatus and method for feeding back channel quality information and scheduling apparatus and method using the same in a wireless communication system
Paragraph: An apparatus for receiving, at base station, channel quality information (CQI) from a mobile station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), the apparatus comprising: a controller for receiving a wideband CQI, and for receiving a sub-band CQI for each of S sub-bands, wherein the wideband CQI is for an entire band, the entire band including S sub-bands and the sub-band CQI is for each of the S sub-bands, wherein the sub-band CQI and the wideband CQI are received at a same time interval, and wherein S is greater than one.
Keywords: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA),

18
 US Patent 9178598: Claim Element 1. Filed by Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha on 2011-08-29 and published on 2015-11-03
Wireless transmission apparatus, wireless reception apparatus, wireless communication system and integrated circuit
Paragraph: A wireless transmission apparatus that includes a plurality of transmission antennas, that performs precoding on a data signal for each of a plurality of reception apparatuses and that spatially multiplexes and transmits the signal after said precoding, the wireless transmission apparatus comprising: A memory having instructions stored thereon executed by a processor to perform: sharing a codebook describing a plurality of linear filters associated with each other with each of said reception apparatuses, and precoding on the data signal for each of said reception apparatuses, based on a first linear filter that is extracted from said codebook in each of said reception apparatuses based on said association and that is notified from each of said reception apparatuses; wherein said first linear filter maximizes any one of a reception signal-to-noise power ratio, a reception signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio, and a communication capacity of each of said reception apparatuses.
Keywords: wireless transmission apparatus that includes a plurality of transmission antennas

19
 US Patent 8615050: Claim Element 13. Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated on 2012-12-19 and published on 2013-12-24
Multi-resolution beamforming based on codebooks in MIMO systems
Paragraph: A computer-program product for wireless communications, comprising a computer readable storage device encoded with instructions executable to: receive training signals using a first subset of a first set of codebooks; receive beamforming capability information from a device either directly or via a piconet controller (PNC); employ a second subset of the first set of codebooks to acquire channel state information (CSI), wherein the second subset is same or different than the first subset; estimate a first preferred vector of weights from the first subset and a second preferred vector of weights from the second subset; provide, as a feedback to the device, the first preferred vector of weights; and use the second preferred vector of weights to communicate with the device on a receive direction from a set of receive directions, wherein the beamforming capability information comprises an indication about a total number of N antennas, and a total number of M directions from a first set of directions, the first subset of the first set of codebooks is employed for receiving the training signals using receive directions from the first set of directions, and the first set of codebooks is represented in a matrix form for the total of N antennas and the total of M directions from the first set of directions as: W â¡ ( n , m )

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 US Patent 8009656: Claim Element 1. Filed by Panasonic Corporation on 2010-11-11 and published on 2011-08-30
Apparatus and method for providing feedback information in response to subcarrier reception
Paragraph: A mobile station apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus using a multicarrier scheme, in which the multicarrier scheme uses a plurality of divided bands in a communication band, and each divided band is composed of a plurality of subcarriers, the mobile station apparatus comprising: a generating section that generates, for one or more divided bands among the plurality of divided bands, feedback information using a feedback format including a spatial multiplexing number of a spatial multiplexing transmission, wherein one feedback format corresponds to one divided band; and a transmission section that feeds back the generated feedback information to the base station apparatus.
Keywords: A mobile station apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus using a multicarrier scheme,