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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2004
Applicant:
Tejaskumar R. Patel, Randolph, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Tejaskumar R. Patel, Randolph, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for handling potentially corrupted frames. The method includes receiving a frame having a first sequence number, determining, based on the first sequence number, whether the frame is potentially corrupted, and determining a number of received potentially corrupted frames in response to determining that the frame is potentially corrupted. The method also includes determining whether to drop the potentially corrupted frame based on the number of received potentially corrupted frames.