Patent ID: 9438384
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method operational at an access point in communication with a destination station, the method comprising: receiving a stream of data including at least one media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) having a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field value, wherein the stream of data has a layered modulation scheme, the DSCP field value of the MPDU identifying at least one layer of the layered modulation scheme; providing a retransmission policy to the MPDU based on the DSCP field value by replacing a first Traffic Identifier (TID) field value with a second TID field value, wherein the retransmission policy identifies a maximum number of retransmissions of the MPDU to the destination station; and transmitting the MPDU to the destination station via a wireless local area network (WLAN).