Patent ID: 9326316
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for communicating between stations over a shared medium, the method comprising: receiving, at a destination station, retransmitted plurality of segments of a payload originated from an origin station, the plurality of segments having been transmitted over the shared medium by the origin station and retransmitted by a repeater station to the destination station; receiving, at the destination station, repeater information indicating a location of a first segment of the plurality of segments that was not correctly decoded by the repeater station; generating, at the destination station, acknowledgement information that specifies which of the plurality of segments have been correctly decoded by the destination station, the acknowledgement information based, at least in part, on the repeater information; and transmitting from the destination station over the shared medium, the acknowledgement information.