Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Group acknowledgement for multiple user communication in a wireless local area network
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Application No.: US15670536Application Date: 2017-08-07
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Publication No.: US10707928B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Liwen Chu , Lei Wang , Jinjing Jiang , Hongyuan Zhang , Hui-Ling Lou
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: H04B7/0452
- IPC: H04B7/0452 ; H04L1/16 ; H04L1/18 ; H04L27/26 ; H04L5/00 ; H04J11/00 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
A first communication device receives plurality of uplink data units simultaneously transmitted by multiple second communication devices, and generates an acknowledgement data unit to acknowledge receipt of the plurality of uplink data units. Each of at least some of a plurality of acknowledgment fields includes: a first field that includes an indicator of a corresponding one of the second communication devices, a second field that indicates whether the acknowledgment field corresponds to i) an acknowledgment corresponding to a single data unit, or ii) a block acknowledgment corresponding to multiple data units, wherein when the second field that indicates a block acknowledgment, the acknowledgment field further includes a third field having a bitmap that indicates which data units in the group are being acknowledged, and wherein when the second field that indicates acknowledgment of a single data unit, the acknowledgment field does not include the third field.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170338867A1 GROUP ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE USER COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Public/Granted day:2017-11-23
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