`Reply to Office Action dated August 20, 2019
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`Amendments to the Claims:
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`This listing of claims will replace all prior versions, and listings, of claims in the
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`application:
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`Listing of Claims:
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`1.
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`(Currently Amended) A wireless communication device, comprising:
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`a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) generation circuitry, which in
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`operation, generates a PPDU including a legacy preamble, a legacy header, a non-legacy header
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`and a data field, and
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`a transmission circuitry, which in operation, transmits the PPDU, wherein:
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`the transmission circuitry includes an encoding circuitry, and
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`the encoding circuitry, in operation, performs Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)
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`2.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 1, wherein the non-legacy header includes identification information, and wherein the
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`identification information indicates that the non-legacy header is included in the generated PPDU
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`and is format identification information included in a top portion of the non-legacy header.
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`3.
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`(Original) The wireless communication device according to Claim 1,
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`wherein the non-legacy header is disposed immediately after the legacy header in the PPDU.
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`4.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 2, wherein the format identification information and the field indicating the channel
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`bandwidth are individually described in the non-legacy header.
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`5.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 2, wherein the format identification information and the field indicating the channel
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`bandwidth are jointly described in a single field in the non-legacy header.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 5, wherein each of the format identification information and the field indicating the
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`channel bandwidth are described in the non-legacy header by using a sequence, and the sequence
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`is selected from among a plurality of sequences defined in accordance with the channel
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`bandwidth.
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`7.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 1, wherein the transmission circuitry includes:
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`a modulation circuitry, which in operation, maps the encoded legacy header and
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`the encoded non-legacy header to the same constellation.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 2, wherein the transmission circuitry includes a scrambling circuitry, which in operation,
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`performs scrambling on the PPDU,
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`wherein the encoding, in operation, performs error correction coding on the
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`scrambled PPDU, and
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`wherein the scrambling is not performed on the identification information.
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`9.
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`(Previously Presented) The wireless communication device according to
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`Claim 2, wherein the transmission circuitry includes a modulation circuitry, which in operation,
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`modulates the PPDU, and
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`wherein the modulation circuitry modulates the non-legacy header by using a first
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`phase that differs from a second phase used to modulate one of the legacy preamble and the
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`legacy header.
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`10.
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`(Currently Amended) A wireless communication method, comprising:
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`generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a legacy
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`preamble, a legacy header, a non-legacy header and a data field,
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`performing Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) on the PPDU. wherein a single
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`LDPC‘ codeword is generated by encoding the legacy header and the non-legacy headernto
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`transmitting the LDPCweefieetion-coded PPDU, wherein:
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`the non-legacy header in the single first-LDPC codeword includes a field
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`indicating a channel bandwidth.
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