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Granted Patent B2
US 12,593,314 · App. 17/923,573 · Granted Mar 31, 2026

Method for transmitting and receiving data in wireless communication system, and wireless communication terminal

Inventors: Geonjung Ko (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Juhyung Son (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Sanghyun Kim (Seoul, KR); Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
H04W72/04H04L1/0061
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Patent No.
US 12,593,314
App. No.
17/923,573
Granted
Mar 31, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for receiving a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives, from an access point (AP), an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU comprising at least one EHT-signal (SIG) content channel. Each of the at least one EHT-SIG content channel comprises a user-specific field and a common field comprising at least one first resource unit (RU) allocation subfield. An STA then identifies whether the common field further comprises at least one second RU allocation subfield, and can decode the PPDU on the basis of whether the common field further comprises the at least one second RU allocation subfield.

Claims (38)

1 . A terminal in a wireless communication system, the terminal comprising:

a communication module; and

a processor configured to control the communication module,

wherein the processor is configured to:

receive an extremely high throughput physical layer protocol data unit (EHT PPDU) comprising one or more EHT-signal (SIG) content channels from an access point (AP),

wherein each EHT-SIG content channel of the one or more EHT-SIG content channels includes a user specific field and a common field including at least one first resource unit (RU) allocation subfield, and

wherein a specific field positioned before the at least one first RU allocation subfield is used to identify whether the common field includes at least one second RU allocation subfield after the at least one first RU allocation subfield, and

decode the common field included in the EHT PPDU,

wherein the common field includes i) a first coding block in which the at least one first RU allocation subfield is encoded and ii) a second coding block in which the at least one second RU allocation subfield is encoded when the common field further includes the at least one second RU allocation subfield, and

wherein the specific field corresponding to each EHT-SIG content channel of two or more EHT-SIG content channels is set to a same value when the EHT PPDU includes the two or more EHT-SIG content channels.

2 . The terminal of claim 1 ,

wherein each of the first coding block and the second coding block separately decoded.

3 . The terminal of claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one first RU allocation subfield is encoded into the first coding block along with a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and a first tail, and

wherein the at least one second RU allocation subfield is encoded into the second coding block along with a second CRC and a second tail.

4 . The terminal of claim 1 ,

wherein the specific field is related to a bandwidth over which the EHT PPDU is transmitted.

5 . The terminal of claim 4 ,

wherein the one or more EHT-SIG content channels are transmitted at each predetermined bandwidth according to the bandwidth.

6 . The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the specific field is used to identify a total number of each of the at least one first RU allocation subfield, whether the at least one second RU allocation subfield is included in the common field, and a number of the at least one second RU allocation subfield.

7 . A method for receiving data by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving an extremely high throughput physical layer protocol data unit (EHT PPDU) comprising one or more EHT-signal (SIG) content channels from an access point (AP),

wherein each EHT-SIG content channel of the one or more EHT-SIG content channels includes a user specific field and a common field including at least one first resource unit (RU) allocation subfield, and

wherein a specific field positioned before the at least one first RU allocation subfield is used to identify whether the common field includes at least one second RU allocation subfield after the at least one first RU allocation subfield; and

decoding the common field included in the EHT PPDU,

wherein the common field includes i) a first coding block in which the at least one first RU allocation subfield is encoded and ii) a second coding block in which the at least one second RU allocation subfield is encoded when the common field further includes the at least one second RU allocation subfield, and

wherein the specific field corresponding to each EHT-SIG content channel of two or more EHT-SIG content channels is set to a same value when the EHT PPDU includes the two or more EHT-SIG content channels.

8 . The method of claim 7 ,

wherein each of the first coding block and the second coding block separately decoded.

9 . The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the at least one first RU allocation subfield is encoded into the first coding block along with a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and a first tail, and

wherein the at least one second RU allocation subfield is encoded into the second coding block along with a second CRC and a second tail.

10 . The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the specific field is related to a bandwidth over which the EHT PPDU is transmitted.

11 . The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the one or more EHT-SIG content channels are transmitted at each predetermined bandwidth according to the bandwidth.

12 . The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the specific field is used to identify a number of the at least one first RU allocation subfield, whether the at least one second RU allocation subfield is included in the common field, and a number of the at least one second RU allocation subfield.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2023
From: KO, GEONJUNG; SON, JUHYUNG; KIM, SANGHYUN; KWAK, JINSAM
To: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0053630 · May 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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