Patent ID: 8059654

Claim:
A device, comprising: a transmitter for sending forward link wireless signals from the device toward a second device, wherein the second device comprises an inbound queue; a receiver for receiving reverse link wireless signals at the device from the second device; and a processor programmed to provide an acknowledgement frame to the transmitter for transmission toward the second device, the acknowledgement frame associated with a DATA frame of a sequence of DATA frames that is received from the second device, wherein the received DATA frame comprises an associated sequence number, and wherein the acknowledgement frame comprises an acknowledgement sequence number that matches the sequence number associated with the received DATA frame, a number count of sequential DATA frames within the sequence received at the wireless device preceding and contiguous to the received DATA frame having the matching sequence number, a number count of sequential DATA frames within the sequence received at the wireless device following and contiguous to the received DATA frame having the matching sequence number, a Boolean at top field that is set to true when there are no missing DATA frames in the inbound queue prior to the received DATA frame having the matching sequence number.