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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:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2008
Applicants:
Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
LU Qian, Solon, OH (US);
Inventors:
Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lu Qian, Solon, OH (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes scheduling acknowledgements from a plurality of receivers in a wireless network, transmitting an acknowledgement schedule to the receivers, broadcasting or multicasting data to the receivers, processing acknowledgements received from receivers, and retransmitting at least a portion of the data to one or more of the receivers if an acknowledgement is not received from the one or more receivers. An apparatus for broadcasting or multicasting data in a wireless network is also disclosed.