Dedicated acknowledgement and delivery of management messages in wireless communication systems
AssigneeZTE (USA) Inc.
InventorsHua Mary Chion, Jerry Pak Lup Chow, Hongyun Qu
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Abstract
Techniques and systems for acknowledging management message reception in a wireless communication system can include operating a first radio station to generate a management message that contains a sequence number unique to the management message and to direct the management message to a second radio station; and operating the second radio station, after receiving the management message from the transmitter, to generate and transmit, before decoding the content of the received the management message, an acknowledgement to the transmitter identifying the received manage message by the sequence number unique to the management message.
Claims39
A method for acknowledging management message reception in a wireless communication system, comprising:
- operating a transmitter within the system to generate a management message that contains a sequence number unique to the management message and to direct the management message to a receiver in the system;
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- operating the receiver, after receiving the management message from the transmitter, to generate and transmit, without decoding the content of the received the management message, an acknowledgement (ACK) signal to the transmitter identifying the received manage message by the sequence number unique to the management message.
A method for acknowledging management message reception in a wireless communication system, comprising:
- assigning a sequence number to a management message to be delivered to a mobile station;
- generating a packet that includes the sequence number and at least a portion of the management message, wherein the packet includes an indicator that signals an acknowledgement to the packet is required;
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- causing the mobile station to send an acknowledgement based on receiving the packet, wherein the acknowledgement includes the sequence number of the received packet, wherein the mobile station sends the acknowledgement before decoding management message content in the received packet.
A wireless communication system, comprising:
- multiple base stations configured to (1) assign a sequence number to a management message to be delivered to a mobile station, (2) generate a packet that includes the sequence number and at least a portion of the management message, the packet including an indicator that signals an acknowledgement to the packet is required, and (3) cause the mobile station to send an acknowledgement based on receiving the packet, wherein the acknowledgement includes the sequence number of the received packet, wherein the mobile station sends the acknowledgement before decoding management message content in the received packet.
An apparatus, comprising:
- transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive wireless radio signals;
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- processor electronics, communicatively coupled with the transceiver circuitry, configured to (1) receive a packet that includes management message content, the packet including a sequence number unique to the management message content, and (2) send, before decoding the management message content, an acknowledgement to the management message content based on an acknowledgement requirement indication in the packet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.