Patent ID: 11894929
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus of a first wireless local area network (WLAN) device, comprising:
one or more interfaces configured to:
transmitting a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) (HARQ) frame to a second WLAN device; and

one or more processors configured to:
receive, in response to the first HARQ frame, a first feedback message from the second WLAN device that indicates whether to enable a HARQ protocol or a non-HARQ protocol; and

the one or more interfaces configured to:
transmit a frame to the second WLAN device based at least in part on the first feedback message, the frame being a second HARQ frame if the first feedback message indicates to enable the HARQ protocol and the frame being a non-HARQ frame if the first feedback message indicates to enable the non-HARQ protocol.