Patent ID: 7430206

Claim:
A method of detecting and correcting transmission errors, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of data blocks via a first transmission, each data block including a unique transmission sequence number (TSN); determining that a data block having an expected TSN was not received via the first transmission; generating a TSN status report message that identifies a missing TSN corresponding to the data block that was not received via the first transmission, the TSN status report message including a first set of bits used to identify the missing TSN and a second set of bits used to identify a particular reordering queue to which the missing TSN is destined; retransmitting a data block including the missing TSN via a second transmission in response to receiving the TSN status report message; and placing the retransmitted data block in a specific location in the particular reordering queue designated by the second set of bits of the TSN status report message.