Patent ID: 8705336

Claim:
A system operable for network communication, comprising: a medium access control layer (MAC) operable to assert a signal to start a controlled wireless transmissions; and a physical layer (PHY) operable to use of a transmit delay (TxDelay) interval and a transmit data delay (TxDataDelay) in the controlled wireless data transmission and to transmit a first part of a response frame comprising preamble [of a response frame, while] without a second part of the frame from the medium access control layer, while the MAC continues data preparation for a header contained with the second part of the frame and a frame body and wherein the physical layer is further operable to transmit the second part of the frame in response to receiving the second part of the frame from the medium access control layer, wherein a time from transmission of the first part of the frame by the physical layer to transmission of the second part of the frame by the medium access control layer is adjustable based upon processing timing requirements, wherein the MAC is required to have the header ready for the PHY only within TxDataDelay of the end of the preamble on the air, wherein the TxDataDelay is a time interval from when the PHY is allowed to start requesting data from the MAC to when the transmission of the preamble ends over the air.