Patent ID: 7729348

Claim:
A method implemented in a terminal in wireless local area network, the terminal comprising a transmitter, and a receiver with a receiver address, the method comprising: at the receiver, receiving data frames from a transmitter node, each data frame comprising a header field and a payload field, the payload field comprising a first payload data subfield and an associated first header subfield, and a second payload data subfield and an associated second header subfield, wherein the first payload data subfield comprises at least a first data unit and the first header subfield comprises a first source medium access control (MAC) address and a first destination MAC address, and wherein the second payload data subfield comprises at least a second data unit and the second header subfield comprises a second source MAC address and a second destination MAC address; and for each received data frame: parsing the data frame into the header field and the payload field; determining whether any bit errors exist in the data frame; processing the first data unit if the first destination MAC address is the same as the receiver address; via the transmitter, forwarding the first payload data subfield if the first destination MAC address is different than the receiver address; processing the second data unit if the second destination MAC address is the same as the receiver address; and via the transmitter, forwarding the second payload data subfield if the second destination MAC address is different than the receiver address.