Patent ID: 9319184
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for receiving acknowledgements from plural wireless communication devices, the method comprising: receiving a radio link control message from at least one wireless communication device of the plural wireless communication devices; transmitting a base station acknowledgement message addressed to the plural wireless communication devices, the base station acknowledgement message indicating an acknowledgement group that comprises the plural wireless devices, wherein each wireless communication device of the acknowledgment group is allocated a period within a common time interval during which to transmit a device acknowledgement message, the base station acknowledgement message further indicating, for each wireless communication device of the acknowledgement group, whether all of a plurality of radio link control messages associated with each wireless communication device have been successfully received at a base station; and receiving from each wireless communication device of the acknowledgement group device acknowledgement messages each transmitted within the period of the common time interval indicated for each wireless communication device to transmit its device acknowledgement message.