Patent ID: 9313086
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to reduce redundancy for a flow in a wireless network, comprising: enabling a receiver having a transceiver operable in the wireless network to send back a response frame for the flow to a transmitter in communication with the receiver by defining a new response type to reply to an ADDFLOW request received from the transmitter, wherein the new response type contains at least one field selected from a group consisting of flow ID and flow address; wherein the response frame includes a field to indicate that the ADDFLOW request from the transmitter is to be accepted or declined by the receiver; reserving one flow ID specifically for beacon flows; wherein the ADDFLOW request comprises a flow ID (FID) suggestion present or not (p/n) field to indicate that the receiver is allowed to choose the flow ID; wherein the flow includes a plurality of frames having common bit sequences.