Patent ID: 9008059
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving two or more streams of data packets over a wireless medium on separate interfaces; receiving transmitter-inserted block synchronization frames on the separate interfaces, wherein each stream of data packets is associated with at least one block synchronization frame, wherein each of the data packets and the block synchronization frames has a sequence number that is specific to a certain transmitter interface and is representative of an order in which the data packets and the block synchronization frames were transmitted from the certain transmitter interface, and wherein each of the block synchronization frames includes information identifying at least one of the separate interfaces other than the interface on which the block synchronization frame is received, and the sequence number of either a first data packet or a last data packet added at the at least one of the separate interfaces other than the interface on which the block synchronization frame is received; and ordering and merging the received two or more streams of data packets based on the information identifying at least one of the separate interfaces and the sequence number provided by at least one of the block synchronization frames.