`Reply to Office Action dated November 29, 2018
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`generates a fourth scheduling element that includes the at least one third allocation field among
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`the first allocation field and the third allocation field.
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`8.
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`(Previously Presented) The communication method according to Claim 1,
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`wherein
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`the second scheduling element includes at least one fourth allocation field
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`indicating information on allocation to the at least one first communication device, the
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`information in the at least one fourth allocation field corresponds to a part of the information in
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`the at least one first allocation field.
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`9.
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`(Currently Amended) A communication method for a second
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`communication device, the communication method comprising:
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`receiving a beacon that is transmitted from a personal basic service set Control
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`Point / Access Point (PCP/AP) device and that includes a first scheduling element to be used by
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`at least one first communication device that is a legacy communication device and a second
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`scheduling element to be used by at least one second communication device that is a non—legacy
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`communication device the first schedulin 3 element and the second scheduling element bein
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`included in one frame,
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`generating a third allocation field indicating information on allocation to the at
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`least one second communication device;
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`adding the third allocation field to the first scheduling element, and
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`transmitting the first scheduling element to which the third allocation field is
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`added and the second scheduling element to the at least one first communication device and to
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`another second communication device other than the second communication device, wherein_:_
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`the first scheduling element includes a first allocation field indicating
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`information on allocation to the at least one first communication device,
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`the second scheduling element includes the second allocation field
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`indicating information on allocation to the at least one second communication device,
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