Patent ID: 8614970
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: G01V,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for generating an immediate block acknowledgement by a recipient station via partial state operation, comprising: a communications interface to receive a data unit from an originator station; a memory to store a temporary block acknowledgement record for a block acknowledgement agreement between an originator station and the recipient station; acknowledgement logic to check if the received data unit is related to the block acknowledgement agreement and to modify the temporary block acknowledgement record in the memory based on the received data unit when the received data unit is related to the block acknowledgement agreement; response logic to generate the immediate block acknowledgement for the originator station based on the temporary block acknowledgement record; and reset logic to discard the temporary block acknowledgement record after a data unit is received from a different originator station other than the originator station that is associated with the block acknowledgement agreement.