Patent ID: 7103025

Claim:
A method for efficient utilization of transmission resources in a wireless network, comprising: in response to at least unsuccessfully receiving a radio frame for a packet from a wireless link, requesting retransmission of the frame up to an allowed number of retransmissions; determining a position of the frame in a set of related frames for the packet, wherein a sequence number corresponds to the position of the frame; determining the allowed number of retransmissions for the frame based on the position of the frame in the set of related frames, wherein the allowed number of retransmissions for the frame increases as the sequence number corresponding to the position of the frame in the set of related frames increases; and in response to at least unsuccessfully receiving the frame from the allowed number of retransmissions, generating a signal for transmission to a device transmitting the frame, the signal operable to prevent the device from transmitting a set of remaining frames for the packet.