US 11,728,924 B2
Enhanced bandwidth puncturing
Yanjun Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); and Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,186.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/079,455, filed on Sep. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0085910 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/0013 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04W 74/0816 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communication by a wireless communication device comprising:
transmitting, to a wireless station (STA), a management frame including an operation element, the operation element including:
a bit indicating whether the operation element omits octets that indicate a bitmap associated with punctured channel information; and
the octets that indicate the bitmap associated with the punctured channel information in accordance with the bit indicating that the operation element carries the octets, the punctured channel information indicating one or more first punctured subchannels associated with a wireless channel; and
communicating with the STA over a portion of the wireless channel that excludes at least the one or more first punctured subchannels.