Patent ID: 6996063

Claim:
A method for determining triggering of a polling request in a wireless communications protocol for a transmitter, the transmitter capable of transmitting protocol data units (PDUs), each PDU comprising an n-bit sequence number, the method comprising: providing a polling value beyond which polling is to be triggered; proving a base sequence number VT(A), the base sequence number VT(A) marking a beginning sequence number of a transmitting window of the transmitter; obtaining a first value that is (2 n +1) added to a difference of a parameter S and the base sequence number VT(A), wherein the parameter S is the n-bit sequence number of a PDU that is to be transmitting; obtain a second value that is a modulus of the first value with 2 n ; obtaining a test value that is the second value divided by a size of the transmitting window; and causing polling to be triggered if the test value is greater than the polling value and if the PDU that is to be transmitted is not a re-transmitted PDU.