Patent ID: 8953631
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: circuitry to permit interruption, at least in part, of transmission, at least in part, of a first frame from a sender to an intended recipient in favor of transmitting, at least in part, a payload of a second frame from the sender to the intended recipient, the payload to be transmitted, at least in part, to the intended recipient in one or more frame fragments; the circuitry to indicate to the intended recipient receipt of the one or more frame fragments instead of the first frame by including in one or more cyclical redundancy check (CRC) fields in the one or more frame fragments one or more predetermined reserved values that are not equal to one or more correct CRC values for the one or more frame fragments, the one or more frame fragments comprising a final frame fragment that comprises both one or more final frame fragment CRC fields and one or more additional final frame fragment CRC fields, the one or more final frame fragment CRC fields comprising another predetermined reserved value that is not equal to the one or more predetermined reserved values and also is not equal to a correct final frame fragment CRC value for the final frame fragment, the one or more additional final frame fragment CRC fields comprising a correct accumulated CRC value for the second frame, the another predetermined reserved value being to indicate to the intended recipient that the intended recipient has received the final frame fragment instead of another frame fragment.