Patent ID: 9363621
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for transferring data in a communication system, comprising: receiving, from a first network device a coded version of a frame and a first state variable in a media access control (MAC) layer in a second network device; starting, by the first network device, an acknowledgment timer; buffering, by the second network device, the coded version of the frame until the frame is successfully decoded; determining, by the second network device, whether the frame has been successfully decoded; determining, by the second network device, in accordance with whether the frame has been successfully decoded, whether to set a second state variable of the second network device equal to an expected sequence number of a next frame; transmitting, by the second network device, the second state variable to the first network device; and determining, by the first network device in accordance with a variable V