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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Lei Huang, Singapore, SG;
Yoshio Urabe, Nara, JP;
Yanyi Ding, Singapore, SG;
Rojan Chitrakar, Singapore, SG;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for PPDU format identification. The communication apparatus includes circuitry adapted to generate a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit, PPDU, that contains a first signal field, a second signal field and a third signal field; and a transmitter adapted to transmit the generated PPDU, wherein the second signal field indicates whether a physical layer, PHY, version of the generated PPDU is not older than a defined PHY version, and the third signal field contains version independent bits comprising a PHY version identifier that indicates the PHY version of the generated PPDU.