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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(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.
Claim(s) 19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Tamma et al. (US 2022/0330180 A1), hereinafter referred to as D1.
Regarding claim 19, D1 discloses a method, circuit, and system of highly accurate carrier frequency offset estimation, which comprises:
a radio transmitter device arranged to transmit a radio signal comprising a data packet, said data packet comprising a first portion comprising an encoded bit sequence and including information specific to the data packet and a second portion comprising an encoded bit sequence and comprising corresponding information specific to the data packet; and a radio receiver device as claimed in any preceding claim arranged to receive the radio signal (Note, the prior art teaches a receiver configurable and therefore teaches the claimed “receiver” as the claim is directed towards a device. Referring to Figure 1, packaging a protocol packet (transmitted and received) to include a predetermined bit sequence with a specified prefix (first portion comprising an encoded bit sequence and including information specific to the data packet and a second portion comprising an encoded bit sequence and comprising corresponding information specific to the data packet), one or more signature elements, and a specified suffix at a possibly known or negotiated location in the protocol packet. The predetermined bit sequence includes an m-bit prefix, one or more copies of an L-bit signature segment, and an m-bit suffix, where the m-bit prefix is identical to the last m-bits of the L-bit signature segment and where the m-bit suffix is identical to the first m-bits of the L-bit signature segment. The predetermined bit sequence includes a single signature segment, the m-bit prefix and m-bit suffix may be predetermined values known to the transmitting and receiving devices without any relationship to the signature segment. See paragraph 0020. Receiver comprising, when triggered in alignment with a signature segment, the CFOF sequence detector will take the samples corresponding to a segment and correlate them against the reference signal (calculate a correlation metric). See paragraph 0034. The predetermined bit sequence may be formatted as a CFO fingerprinting (CFOF) sequence which may be detected in the physical layer's PDU to produce an accurate CFO estimate according to the sequence and correlation. See paragraphs 0020 and 0034.)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 1, 3-18, and 20 are allowed.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
CHANDRASEKAR et al. (US 2026/0081729 A1) - methods, devices and systems for communicating over a 60 GHz band and reusing legacy hardware for communication over sub-6 bands. Certain aspects are directed to outputting, for transmission to a second wireless device, a first packet, wherein the first packet is output via a radio frequency (RF) front end defined by a first clock accuracy requirement having an acceptable error rate that is lower than a legacy clock accuracy requirement, and wherein the first packet is output for transmission via a first band.
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DONALD L. MILLS
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2462
/Donald L Mills/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2462
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