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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2006
Leon J. Zegers, Amsterdam, NL;
Marcel Korndewal, Amersfoort, NL;
Wim Schaap, Kortenhoef, NL;
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processes a downlink frame within a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer () where the downlink frame includes a plurality of fragments constituting one or more MAC Service Data Unit (MSDU)s. The MAC layer pre-processes the plurality of fragments of the downlink frame by reordering the fragments to reassemble one or more of the MSDUs () until an end-of-frame signal is detected (). The end-of-frame signal indicates that all of the plurality of fragments for a downlink frame have been received. The MAC layer post-processes the plurality of fragments () in response to detecting the end-of-frame signal (), then delivers the reassembled MSDUs to a next layer ().