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by helsinkiandrew 916 days ago
The patent is about how packets could be structured and sent on a wireless network, so not necessarily a "software patent".

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0581867...

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It seems to be about the "structure" of a packet, meaning bit fields that indicate if the packet is for a single user or multicast?

That seems more to me like a mere protocol convention, exactly the kind of stuff that should be in a standard communication protocol just so everyone agrees on the same fields.

How is that a new "invention"?