Patent ID: 6980514
Filing Date: 2005-12-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a communication system, a method comprising: receiving a packet of data; determining whether said received packet of data is received out of sequence in a series of packets of data; transmitting a negative acknowledgment for retransmission of a missing packet of data, wherein said missing packet of data is identified based on said received out of sequence packet of data in said series of packets of data and accumulating received out-of-sequence packets of data in a re-sequencing buffer; starting an abort timer associated with said transmitted negative acknowledgment for measuring an elapsed time from a time of said transmitting; determining whether said elapsed time of said abort timer exceeds an abort period of time threshold; comparing an accumulated number of data packets in the re-sequencing buffer to an amount of data threshold; passing received in-sequence packets of data to a higher protocol layer when accumulated number of data packets exceeds said amount of data threshold without waiting for said elapsed time of said abort timer to exceed said abort period of time threshold.