Patent ID: 8761089

Claim:
A method for acknowledging a plurality of frames in a communication network, comprising: detecting transmission of said frames from a transmitter by a receiver in said communication network; determining a format for an acknowledgment frame comprising a plurality of bytes, from a plurality of frame acknowledgment formats for reporting status of reception of said frames by said receiver, wherein said reporting of said status of said reception of said frames by said receiver comprises encoding a distance between a number of frames between one of two successive correctly received frames of said frames, two successive unsuccessfully received frames of said frames, a correctly received frame of said frames and a successive unsuccessfully received frame of said frames, and an unsuccessfully received frame of said frames and a successive correctly received frame of said frames, in said acknowledgment frame by said receiver, and wherein one or more of said frame acknowledgment formats are configured to generate said acknowledgment frame for acknowledging said frames using a decreased number of said bytes; and generating said acknowledgment frame in said determined format by said receiver for acknowledging said frames.