Error Handling In A Wireless Communications System
AssigneeInnovative Sonic Limited
InventorSam Shiaw-Shiang Jiang
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Abstract
A method for detecting an erroneous sequence number in a status report in a wireless communications system includes receiving a status report sent from a receiver of the wireless communications system, detecting whether a negatively acknowledged sequence number is within a range that is larger than or equal to the sequence number following the sequence number of the last in-sequence acknowledged packet and smaller than the sequence number of the next packet to be transmitted for the first time, and detecting that the status report includes an erroneous sequence number when a negatively acknowledged sequence number is not within the abovementioned range.
Claims7
A method of detecting an erroneous sequence number of a status report unit in a wireless communications system, the method comprising:
- receiving a status report unit output from a receiver of the wireless communications system;
- detecting whether a negatively acknowledged sequence number lies in a range of greater than or equal to a sequence number following a sequence number of a last in-sequence acknowledged packet of a transmitter and less than a sequence number of a next packet to be transmitted for the first time by the transmitter when the negatively acknowledged sequence number is detected in the status report unit;
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- detecting that the status report unit comprises an erroneous sequence number when the negatively acknowledged sequence number is not in the range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.