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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert Bennett, Southold, NY (US);
Farhad Barzegar, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Donald J. Barnickel, Flemington, NJ (US);
Giovanni Vannucci, Middletown, NJ (US);
Irwin Gerszberg, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Paul Shala Henry, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Peter Wolniansky, Ocean Grove, NJ (US);
Thomas M. Willis, III, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transmission device operates by: generating a transmit signal conveying transmit data in accordance with an HARQ protocol; converting the transmit signal to transmitted guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a transmission medium; converting to a receive signal received guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along the surface of the transmission medium; generating, based on the receive signal, corona discharge data that indicates a corona discharge in proximity to the transmission medium during a first time period; identifying, responsive to the corona discharge data, a first packet of the transmit signal that was converted to transmitted guided electromagnetic waves during the first time period; and regenerating the transmit signal to include the first packet for retransmission via the transmitted guided electromagnetic waves, without waiting for a repeat request to be received from the remote device indicating the first packet.