Patent ID: 8660144

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a wireless communications device to communicate in a wireless network using a multi-receiver aggregation protocol, wherein the protocol includes a sub-header comprising: multiple information segments, each information segment describing a receiver address of an intended recipient device for a group of consecutive data units in a payload; and one or more respective information elements within each information segment, each information element describing respective information associated with a sub-group of one or more data units within the group that have the same characteristics, wherein the respective information comprises a common modulation/coding rate, a common length of one or more consecutively-transmitted data units, and a count of the one or more data units in the sub-group for receipt by the intended recipient device at the described receiver address; wherein a particular information segment comprises a field indicating a type of acknowledgment and a time period associated with the type of acknowledgement to be transmitted by the intended recipient device, wherein the time period is based at least in part on the transmitted data units.