Patent ID: 7864768
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a transmitter to transmit, in response to an incoming multicast communication frame received from a multicast communication source, a multicast acknowledgment frame indicating receipt of the incoming multicast communication frame, wherein said apparatus is randomly designated by the multicast communication source as a representative multicast communication recipient; and wherein said representative multicast communication recipient is chosen from a subset of connected stations determined through statistical comparison to see which stations fall within a set of boundary conditions chosen from said subset at a periodic interval and wherein said multicast communication source will reassign the representative multicast communication recipient based on a subset of available stations and wherein said representative multicast communication recipient is chosen from said subset based upon statistics reported to said multicast communication source from said subset of connected stations, wherein said statistics include Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), Packet Error Rate (PER) and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), and wherein based on one or more messages received from said representative multicast communication recipient, said multicast communication source modifies multicast communication.