Patent ID: 7978656
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method that facilitates maintaining consistent sequence space in radio-link layer protocol (RLP) communications, comprising: detecting one or more RLP sequence number reset events, wherein at least one of the one or more RLP sequence number reset events is a wrap-around of RLP sequence numbers; setting an offset substantially equal to an RLP sequence number succeeding a current RLP number upon occurrence of the one or more RLP sequence number reset events; and adding the offset to subsequent RLP sequence numbers prior to transmitting respective RLP data with the subsequent RLP sequence numbers, wherein the subsequent RLP sequence numbers are virtual RLP (VRLP) sequence numbers that are mapped to one or more underlying RLP sequence numbers, and wherein the VRLP sequence numbers do not reset as a result of the one or more RLP sequence number reset events.