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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2009
Jan Boer, Odijk, NL;
Wilhelmus Diepstraten, Haghorst, NL;
Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Syed Aon Mujtaba, Watchung, NJ (US);
Jan Boer, Odijk, NL;
Wilhelmus Diepstraten, Haghorst, NL;
Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Syed Aon Mujtaba, Watchung, NJ (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A station for a communications network. In one embodiment, the station includes a decoder, a check processor, and a transmitter. The decoder is adapted to decode a received encoded data unit. The check processor is adapted to determine whether the encoded data unit has been correctly received. The transmitter is adapted to initiate, prior to the check processor completing the determination whether the encoded data unit has been correctly received, the transmission of an acknowledgment message comprising a frame having a plurality of different fields of data. The transmitter is adapted to modify the transmission of the acknowledgment message if the check processor determines that the data unit has not been correctly received.