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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.
Claims 1 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by U.S. PGPub. No. 20120002756 to Zhang et al.
As to Claim 1, Zhang discloses a communication method, comprising (Fig. 1, paragraph [0002]):
receiving at least a part of a frame through the communication channel, wherein the frame comprises a first stream which comprises a first field and a second field on a first channel and the first field and the second on a second channel, wherein the first channel occupies a 20 MHz bandwidth and the second channel occupies another 20 MHz bandwidth (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, paragraph [0005, 0022, 0029, 0030, 0040], where disclose the transmitted and received frame format of cumulating 20 MHz channel bandwidths (first, second, third, fourth 20 MHz channel bandwidth each) each having multiple signal fields (first, second, third, etc.) mapped in multiple streams (first, second, etc.));
wherein the first field is common to multiple stations and the second field is dedicated to a single station (Fig. 2, paragraph [0031], where the VHT-SIGA carries information common all users (multiple stations) and the VHT-SIGB carries user (station) specific (dedicated) information).
As to Claim 2, Zhang further recites discloses the method wherein the frame comprises a second stream which comprise the first field and the second field on a third channel and the first and the second field on a fourth channel, wherein the third channel occupies a 20 MHz bandwidth and the fourth channel occupies another 20 MHz bandwidth (Fig. 2, paragraph [0005, 0022, 0029, 0030, 0040], where the frame format have cumulating 20 MHz channel bandwidths (first, second, third, fourth 20 MHz channel bandwidth each) and having multiple signal fields (first, second, third, etc.) mapped in multiple streams (first, second, etc.)).
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/SUNG S AHN/Examiner, Art Unit 2631 (571)-270-3706
sung.ahn@uspto.gov