Patent ID: 7912093
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of fast acknowledgement/non acknowledgement reporting (FANR) operation, the method comprising: receiving a temporary block flow (TBF) including a radio link control/medium access control (RLC/MAC) header and a corresponding RLC/MAC data block, wherein the RLC/MAC header includes a four-bit sequence simultaneously indicating both information regarding a positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) polling scheme and a presence or absence of a piggybacked ACK/NACK (PAN) field in the corresponding RLC/MAC data block, wherein one bit of the four-bit sequence is assigned to indicate the presence or absence of the PAN field in the corresponding RLC/MAC data block, and each of a plurality of bit combinations of the bit assigned for indicating the presence or absence of the PAN field and remaining three bits of the four-bit sequence indicates a different combination of the ACK/NACK polling scheme and the presence or absence of the PAN field in the corresponding RLC/MAC data block; and processing the four-bit sequence in the RLC/MAC header to identify the ACK/NACK polling scheme and the presence or absence of a PAN field in the corresponding RLC/MAC data block.