Patent ID: 9674730
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to receive a signal representing a wireless communication transmission; and circuitry configured to process the signal to decode a control portion of the wireless communication transmission, determine from the decoded control portion that a data portion of the wireless communication transmission was successfully decoded previously and acknowledged in an initial acknowledgement, and so the wireless communication transmission is an unnecessary retransmission, trigger a subsequent acknowledgement of the wireless communication transmission being successfully decoded, start a decode of the data portion of the wireless communication transmission, and terminate the decode of the data portion of the wireless communication transmission, when the unnecessary retransmission is detected, and initiate, responsive to at least the unnecessary retransmission, a radio resource control (RRC) connection reestablishment to transmit the subsequent acknowledgement, wherein the RRC connection reestablishment causes the initial acknowledgement and the subsequent acknowledgement to be transmitted via different RRC connections.