Patent ID: 11870578
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for wireless communication performed by a wireless access point (AP), comprising:
selecting a first puncturing pattern to be used for transmitting or receiving data over a wireless channel, the first puncturing pattern defined by a first wireless communication protocol;
selecting a second puncturing pattern from a set of puncturing patterns defined by a second wireless communication protocol, the second puncturing pattern including one or more non-punctured subchannels that are subsets of one or more corresponding non-punctured subchannels of the first puncturing pattern; and
transmitting or receiving one or more packets over the wireless channel based on the second puncturing pattern to or from at least one or more wireless stations (STAs) configured to operate according to the second wireless communication protocol.