Patent ID: 8266345

Claim:
A station (STA) comprising: a buffer; a receiver to receive a request that indicates an intent by another station to transmit a number of aggregate medium access controller (MAC) service data units (A-MSDUs) under block acknowledge (ACK) agreements; and a transmitter to transmit a response frame in response to the request, the response frame to indicate whether or not the station intends to receive the A-MSDUs under block ACK agreements and to indicate that a size of the A-MSDUs to be received under block ACK agreements is supported by the buffer, wherein when the station indicates its intention to receive the A-MSDUs under block ACK agreements: the receiver is configured to receive the number of A-MSDUs within a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) under the block ACK agreements after transmission of the response frame; and the receiver is configured to receive one A-MSDU per block ACK agreement, and wherein under the block ACK agreements, the station agrees to confirm that it has received a block of frames comprising the MPDU in response to a block ACK request (BAR) from the other station.