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Status of Claims
1. The following is a non-final office action in response to the applicant’s submission received 08/06/2024.
2. Claims 1 - 7 are currently pending and have been examined.
Foreign Priority/Domestic benefit
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed for Korean Application Nos. 10-2019-0150806, filed on November 21, 2019, 10-2019-0158536, filed on December, 2, 2019, 10-2019-0167215, filed on December 13, 2019, and 10-2020-0010102, filed on January 28, 2020.
Domestic benefit has been claimed with regards to U.S. Patent Application No. 17/779,017, filed on May 23, 2022, which is the National Stage filing under 35 U.S.C. 371 of International Application No. PCT/KR2020/016456, filed on November 20, 2020
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Claims 1 - 7 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 – 3, 10 - 13 and 16 of U.S. Patent No. 12/120065. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other. See the analysis in the table below:
PATENT: 12/120065
18/795, 806
1. A method in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a receiving station (STA), a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) through a broadband from a transmitting STA; and
decoding, by the receiving STA, the PPDU, wherein the PPDU includes a control field and a data field, wherein when the broadband is a 320 MHz band including first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels, the first 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 996 resource unit (RU), the second 80 MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80 MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, the fourth 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, and wherein the data field is received through first multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel…
1. A method in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a receiving station (STA), a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a control field and a data field through a broadband from a transmitting STA;
obtaining, by the receiving STA, the control field; and decoding, by the receiving STA, the data field based on the control field, wherein the control field includes allocation information on multiple resource units (RUs), wherein when the broadband is a 320MHz band including first to fourth 80MHz subchannels, the first 80MHz subchannel includes a first 996RU, the second 80MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, and the fourth 80MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, wherein the data field is received through the multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated,
wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, and
wherein the multiple RUs are obtained when 484RU is punctured in the fourth 80MHz subchannel of the 320MHz band.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel, wherein each of the first to third 996RUs is a RU consisting of 996 tones, wherein the 484RU is an RU consisting of 484 tones.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first to third 996RUs are RUs consisting of 996 tones, wherein the 484RU is an RU consisting of 484 tones.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels is a primary 80 MHz channel, and the remaining three subchannels except for the primary 80 MHz channel are secondary 80 MHz channels, wherein the primary 80 MHz channel includes a primary 20 MHz channel, a secondary 20 MHz channel, and a secondary 40 MHz channel, wherein the primary 20 MHz channel is not punctured.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first to fourth 80MHz subchannels is a primary 80MHz channel, and the remaining three subchannels except for the primary 80MHz channel are secondary 80MHz channels, wherein the primary 80 MHz channel includes a primary 20 MHz channel, a secondary 20 MHz channel, and a secondary 40 MHz channel, wherein the primary 20 MHz channel is not punctured.
10. A receiving station (STA) in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the receiving STA comprising:
a memory;
a transceiver; and
a processor operatively coupled to the memory and the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) through a broadband from a transmitting STA;
and decode the PPDU, wherein the PPDU includes a control field and a data field, wherein when the broadband is a 320 MHz band including first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels, the first 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 996 resource unit (RU), the second 80 MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80 MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, the fourth 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, and wherein the data field is received through first multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel…
A receiving station (STA) in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the receiving STA comprising:
a memory;
a transceiver; and
a processor operatively coupled to the memory and the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a control field and a data field through a broadband from a transmitting STA;
obtain the control field; and decode the data field based on the control field, wherein the control field includes allocation information on multiple resource units (RUs), wherein when the broadband is a 320MHz band including first to fourth 80MHz subchannels, the first 80MHz subchannel includes a first 996RU, the second 80MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, and the fourth 80MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, wherein the data field is received through the multiple RUs in which the first to third 996 RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated,
wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, and wherein the multiple RUs are obtained when 484RU is punctured in the fourth 80MHz subchannel of the 320MHz band.
16. A transmitting station (STA) in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the transmitting STA comprising: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to:
generate a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and transmit the PPDU through a broadband to a receiving STA, wherein the PPDU includes a control field and a data field, wherein when the broadband is a 320 MHz band including first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels, the first 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 996 resource unit (RU), the second 80 MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80 MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, the fourth 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, and wherein the data field is transmitted through first multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel…
A method in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the method comprising: configuring, by a transmitting station (STA), a control field;
configuring, by the transmitting STA, a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) based on the control field; and transmitting, by the transmitting STA, the PPDU through a broadband to a receiving STA, wherein the control field includes allocation information on multiple resource units (RUs), wherein when the broadband is a 320MHz band including first to fourth 80MHz subchannels, the first 80MHz subchannel includes a first 996RU, the second 80MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, and the fourth 80MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, wherein the data field is received through the multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated,
wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, and wherein the multiple RUs are obtained when 484RU is punctured in the fourth 80MHz subchannel of the 320MHz band.
11. A method in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the method comprising:
generating, by a transmitting station (STA), a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and transmitting, by the transmitting STA, the PPDU through a broadband to a receiving STA, wherein the PPDU includes a control field and a data field, wherein when the broadband is a 320 MHz band including first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels, the first 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 996 resource unit (RU), the second 80 MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80 MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, the fourth 80 MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, and wherein the data field is transmitted through first multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the PPDU is transmitted based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel,
A method in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), the method comprising:
configuring, by a transmitting station (STA), a control field;
configuring, by the transmitting STA, a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) based on the control field; and
transmitting, by the transmitting STA, the PPDU through a broadband to a receiving STA, wherein the control field includes allocation information on multiple resource units (RUs),
wherein when the broadband is a 320MHz band including first to fourth 80MHz subchannels, the first 80MHz subchannel includes a first 996RU, the second 80MHz subchannel includes a second 996RU, the third 80MHz subchannel includes a third 996RU, and the fourth 80MHz subchannel includes a first 484RU, wherein the data field is received through the multiple RUs in which the first to third 996RUs and the first 484RU are aggregated,
wherein the PPDU is received based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, and wherein the multiple RUs are obtained when 484RU is punctured in the fourth 80MHz subchannel of the 320MHz band.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the PPDU is transmitted based on a non-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (non-OFDMA) scheme, wherein the control field includes allocation information on the first multiple RUs, wherein the first multiple RUs are obtained by puncturing 484RU in the fourth 80 MHz subchannel, wherein each of the first to third 996RUs is a RU consisting of 996 tones, wherein the 484RU is an RU consisting of 484 tones.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first to third 996RUs are RUs consisting of 996 tones, wherein the 484RU is an RU consisting of 484 tones.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein one of the first to fourth 80 MHz subchannels is a primary 80 MHz channel, and the remaining three subchannels except for the primary 80 MHz channel are secondary 80 MHz channels, wherein the primary 80 MHz channel includes a primary 20 MHz channel, a secondary 20 MHz channel, and a secondary 40 MHz channel, wherein the primary 20 MHz channel is not punctured.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the first to fourth 80MHz subchannels is a primary 80MHz channel, and the remaining three subchannels except for the primary 80MHz channel are secondary 80MHz channels, wherein the primary 80 MHz channel includes a primary 20 MHz channel, a secondary 20 MHz channel, and a secondary 40 MHz channel, wherein the primary 20 MHz channel is not punctured.
Conclusion
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MAHARISHI V. KHIRODHAR
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Art Unit 2463
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