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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
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(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) 1, 6, 8, 17, 24, and 26 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) and/or 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wu et al. (hereinafter referred to as “Wu”, US 12,355,570).
As to claims 1 and 17, Wu teaches a method and/or an apparatus, in a device of an IEEE 802.11 transmitter, comprising: parsing a bit sequence containing bits for transmission into a first sequence and a second sequence (Fig. 10, RU/frequency subblock round-robin parser, column 18, lines 61-67, column 19, lines 1-3); selecting a plurality of tones belonging to a plurality of IEEE 802.11 (column 6, lines 39-66) distributed resource units (DRUs), the selecting being based on the first sequence (i.e., tone mapping based on parsed RU/frequency sub-block, Fig. 10, tone mapper 1 and tone mapper 2, column 19, lines 32-51, column 19, lines 66-67, column 20, lines 1-3 and 30-35); and generating and transmitting an IEEE 802.11 frame comprising a group of modulation symbols each of which is generated based on a portion of the second sequence, the group of modulation symbols being transmitted using the selected plurality of tones (abstract, column 22, lines 48-53).
As to claims 6 and 24, Wu further teaches at a time of transmitting the group of modulation symbols using the selected plurality of tones: refraining from transmitting on all tones belonging to the plurality of IEEE 802.11 distributed resource units (i.e., by transmitting using fewer tones than the total number of predefined tones such as 242 tones, which is according to IEEE 802.11 distributed resource units protocol(s), abstract, column 11, lines 46-55, column 6, lines 39-66).
As to claims 8 and 26, Wu further teaches each member of the group of modulation symbols is a Quadrature-Amplitude Modulation (QAM) symbol mapped to one of the selected plurality of tones (column 17, tables 7 and 8, column 18, lines 1-12).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-5, 7, 18, 21-23, and 25 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Hu et al., US 11,811,526, Figs. 2-16
Handte et al., US 2025/0266942, Figs. 1-6
Zhang et al., US 2015/0349995, abstract, Figs. 5-6
Yang et al., US 2019/0141717, Figs. 6-7
Abraham et al., US 9,281,924, Figs. 4-6
Cao et al., US 2022/0416988, Figs. 2-16
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/FRESHTEH N AGHDAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2632 2/7/2026