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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2020
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable for enabling more reliable acknowledgment of data receipt. Further, the present technology provides a communication device including a control unit that performs control to transmit data to a reception-side communication device, when coordinated transmission is performed to transmit the data simultaneously from a plurality of transmission-side communication devices to the reception-side communication device, generate a request signal including coordinated transmission information regarding the coordinated transmission, and acknowledgement return information for returning an acknowledgement of the coordinately transmitted data simultaneously to the plurality of transmission-side communication devices, transmit the generated request signal to the reception-side communication device, and receive an acknowledgement signal including the acknowledgement, the acknowledgement signal being transmitted from the reception-side communication device that has received the request signal. The present technology can be applied to a wireless LAN system, for example.