Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for acknowledgement and retransmission of multicast data in wireless local area networks
- Patent Title (中): 无线局域网中组播数据的确认和重传方法及系统
-
Application No.: US12737070Application Date: 2008-06-26
-
Publication No.: US08472365B2Publication Date: 2013-06-25
- Inventor: Hang Liu , Ishan Mandrekar , Minquan Wu , Ramkumar Perumanam , Saurabh Mathur
- Applicant: Hang Liu , Ishan Mandrekar , Minquan Wu , Ramkumar Perumanam , Saurabh Mathur
- Applicant Address: FR Issy les Moulineaux
- Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee Address: FR Issy les Moulineaux
- Agent Robert D. Shedd; Jeffrey M. Navon; Catherine A. Cooper
- International Application: PCT/US2008/008032 WO 20080626
- International Announcement: WO2009/157902 WO 20091230
- Main IPC: H04W72/04
- IPC: H04W72/04

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.
Public/Granted literature
Information query