Wireless communication device, method of wireless communication, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsEisuke SAKAI, Tomoya YAMAURA
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Abstract
A wireless communication device and associated method more flexibly changes a destination of an acknowledgement request. The wireless communication device includes a wireless communication interface to communicate wirelessly with another wireless communication device, and a controller to control the wireless communication interface to transmit, to the other wireless communication device, a first message that requests change in a destination of an acknowledgement request frame relating to multicast transmission by the other wireless communication device.
Claims18
A wireless communication device comprising:
- a wireless communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly with another wireless communication device;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the wireless communication unit such that the wireless communication unit transmits, to the other wireless communication device, a first message that requests change in a destination of an acknowledgement request frame relating to multicast transmission by the other wireless communication device.
A wireless communication device comprising:
- a wireless communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly with another wireless communication device;
- and
- a control unit configured to select a destination of an acknowledgement request frame relating to multicast transmission by the wireless communication unit on the basis of a first message that requests change in the destination of the acknowledgement request frame received from the other wireless communication device by the wireless communication unit.
A method of wireless communication in a wireless communication device that communicates wirelessly with another wireless communication device, the method comprising:
- transmitting, to the other wireless communication device, a first message that requests change in a destination of an acknowledgement request frame relating to multicast transmission by the other wireless communication device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.