Patent ID: 7948879

Claim:
Method in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node, the first node and the second node both being comprised within a wireless communication network, the status report comprising at least one of positive and negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node to be received by the second node, wherein the method comprises the steps of: transmitting a sequence of data units or data unit segments to be received by the second node, incrementing a first counter based on a number of data units transmitted, incrementing a second counter based on a number of bytes of data transmitted, comparing a count of the first counter to a first predefined value, comparing a count of the second counter to a second predefined value, and in response to determining that either the count of the first counter exceeds the first predefined value or the count of the second counter exceeds the second predefined value: requesting a status report from the second node, and resetting both the first counter and the second counter.