Patent ID: 9585048
Date: 2017-02-28
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 an indication, from each of the first RAT link and the second RAT link, 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 a sequence number value of each of the data packets received on the first RAT link and the second RAT link; determining whether the sequence number values of the data packets received on the first RAT link and the second RAT link are out of order; performing one or more actions based at least in part on the determination that the sequence number values of the received data packets are out of order; and exchanging packet status information in response to one or more events on one or both of the first RAT link and the second RAT link.