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Method and system for acknowledgement and retransmission of multicast data in wireless local area networks

US8472365B2 · kind B2 · utility

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14Claims

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Assignee

Thomson Licensing · FR

Inventors

Hang Liu · North Potomac, US
Ishan Mandrekar · Monmouth Junction, US
Minquan Wu · Princeton Junction, US
Ramkumar Perumanam · Carmel, US
Saurabh Mathur · Danville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 26, 2008
Grant date	Jun 25, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 15, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2001/0093
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus are described including multicasting a plurality of data units and multicasting a request for acknowledging receipt of the plurality of data units, receiving signals responsive to the request. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a multicast request to acknowledge receipt of data, determining if a response to the request is required, determining status of the data, preparing the response based on the determining acts and transmitting the response.

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