Patent ID: 9712289
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for a media access control (MAC) layer of a wireless communication device, the method comprising: receiving, at the MAC layer, a transmission control protocol (TCP) packet from a source device over a wired network; transmitting, from the MAC layer, the TCP packet on a wireless network toward a destination device; responsive to a second TCP packet received from the destination device, determining at the MAC layer based on a TCP header of the second TCP packet that the second TCP packet is a TCP retransmission request from the destination devices; responsive to the TCP retransmission request from the destination device, determining, at the MAC layer, whether the TCP retransmission request is due to bit errors or congestion experienced by the transmitted TCP packet; responsive to the MAC layer determining that the TCP retransmission request is due to congestion experienced by the transmitted TCP packet, generating and sending, from the MAC layer, a TCP retransmission request to the source device; and responsive to the MAC layer determining that the TCP retransmission request is due to bit errors experienced by the transmitted TCP packet, the MAC layer: