Patent ID: 8799734

Claim:
A method for transmission control by an access device in a wireless communication system including a plurality of receiving devices, comprising: receiving, from a super ordinate device, first transmission data for transmission to a subscriber device, wherein the access device communicates with the plurality of receiving devices, and the subscriber device is one of the plurality of receiving devices; processing, by the access device, control information received by the access device to determine a destination for the first transmission data; if the destination is not one of the plurality of receiving devices, discarding the first transmission data; if the destination is one of the plurality of receiving devices: transmitting the first transmission data to the subscriber device; generating, by the access device, a first access receipt indicator corresponding to the first transmission data; sending the first access receipt indicator to the super ordinate device; subsequent to the receipt of the first transmission data and before receiving a retransmission of data corresponding to the first transmission data, retransmitting, if the access device does not receive a first subscriber receipt indicator from the subscriber device indicating that all of the first transmission data is received by the subscriber device, one or more portions of the first transmission data to the subscriber device; receiving, by the access device, second transmission data for transmission to the subscriber device; transmitting the second transmission data to the subscriber device; generating, by the access device, a second access receipt indicator corresponding to the second transmission data; sending the second access receipt indicator to the super ordinate device; and retransmitting, if the access device does not receive a second subscriber receipt indicator from the subscriber device indicating that all of the second transmission data is received by the subscriber device, one or more portions of the second transmission data to the subscriber device.