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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Sam Shiaw-shiang Jiang, Taipei, TW;
Inventor:
Sam Shiaw-Shiang Jiang, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Innovative Sonic Limited, Port Louis, MU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for polling transmission status in a wireless communications system includes determining whether a buffer of a transmitter contains at least a packet that has been transmitted, has not been discarded, and has not yet been acknowledged when there is no packet scheduled for transmission or retransmission while a polling procedure is triggered and is not prohibited, selecting a packet in order to transmit a poll, and scheduling the selected packet for retransmission.