Patent ID: 7599317

Claim:
A method of processing a downlink frame in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer processor of a mobile station in a wireless communication system, the downlink frame comprising one or more downlink bursts, each of the one or more downlink bursts comprising a plurality of MAC layer protocol data units (MPDUs), each MPDU including a connection identifier (CID), wherein the CID is a number, the method comprising the steps of: processing one of the plurality of MPDUs to recover the CID thereof; determining whether to process a next one of the plurality of MPDUs of one of the one or more downlink bursts or whether to cease processing of the downlink burst in response to the CID of the one of the plurality of MPDUs being greater than the predetermined CID value; and providing information to a physical layer processor to not submit any more of the plurality of MPDUs to the MAC layer processor in response to the determining step determining to cease processing of the plurality of MPDUs.