Patent ID: 8122313

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a receiving station in a wireless network, a plurality of received Medium Access Control Packet Data Units (MPDUs) from a transmitting station, each of the plurality of received MPDUs including a sequence number; determining which of the plurality of received MPDUs were successfully or not successfully received from the transmitting station; and transmitting, to the transmitting station, at least one automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback information element (IE), the at least one ARQ feedback IE including: a number of acknowledgment maps field indicating a number of acknowledgment maps included in the ARQ feedback IE; and the indicated number of acknowledgment maps, each of the acknowledgment maps including: a sequence format field indicating a number of block sequence fields; and the indicated number of block sequence fields, each of the block sequence fields indicating a sequence length of successive packets which were successfully or not successfully received based on the determining which of the plurality of received MPDUs were successfully or not successfully received from the transmitting station.