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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
Benjamin T. Metzler, Beaverton, OR (US);
Emily H. Qi, Portland, OR (US);
Jesse Walker, Portland, OR (US);
Kapil Sood, Beaverton, OR (US);
Benjamin T. Metzler, Beaverton, OR (US);
Emily H. Qi, Portland, OR (US);
Jesse Walker, Portland, OR (US);
Kapil Sood, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transmitter to transmit, in response to an incoming multicast communication frame received from a multicast communication source, a multicast acknowledgment frame indicating receipt of the incoming multicast communication frame, wherein the apparatus is randomly designated by the multicast communication source as a representative multicast communication recipient. In an embodiment of the present invention the representative multicast communication recipient may be chosen from a subset of connected stations.