Patent ID: 9698956
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a mobile station in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving two or more separate data bursts; receiving an acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) aggregation indicator, wherein the ACK/NAK aggregation indicator indicates to the mobile station how many separate data bursts are to be acknowledged or negatively acknowledged by the mobile station in an aggregated ACK/NAK report; and subsequent to receiving the two or more separate data bursts, sending one of: (a) one aggregated ACK/NAK report comprising a plurality of ACK/NAKs, each ACK/NAK corresponding to one of the two or more separate data bursts and indicating whether each one of the two or more separate data bursts was successfully received or not, or (b) one aggregated ACK/NAK report comprising one ACK/NAK corresponding to the two or more separate data bursts, wherein the one ACK/NAK indicates whether the two or more separate data bursts were successfully received or not.