Patent ID: 9722731
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for aggregating data in wireless communications, the method comprising: communicating data packets, by a packet convergence entity, with a first radio access technology (RAT) link comprising a wireless wide area network (WWAN) link and a second RAT link comprising a wireless local area network (WLAN) link; receiving, at the packet convergence entity from each of the first RAT link and the second RAT link, an indication to enable the packet convergence entity to identify which of the first and second RAT links each of the data packets is received by the packet convergence entity; determining, at the packet convergence entity, which data packets are received from the first RAT link and the second RAT link based on the indications from the first RAT link and the second RAT link; monitoring, at the packet convergence entity, a sequence number value of each of the data packets received on the first RAT link and the second RAT link; determining, at the packet convergence entity, whether one or more data packets are missing based on the monitored sequence number values of the first RAT link and the second RAT link; and sending, by the packet convergence entity, a status report in response to one or more events on one or both of the first RAT link and the second RAT link.