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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Rahul Dangui, San Diego, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Vincent Knowles Jones, Iv, Redwood City, CA (US);
Zhi Quan, San Diego, CA (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Naarden, NL;
Rahul Dangui, San Diego, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Redwood City, CA (US);
Zhi Quan, San Diego, CA (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Naarden, NL;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices for acknowledging communications from a plurality of wireless devices in a wireless network are described herein. In some embodiments, an access point for the wireless network transmits a group acknowledgment (ACK) to indicate whether communications (packets) from the plurality of wireless devices have been received or correctly decoded within some time interval. Each wireless device may have a different time interval associated with it. For some embodiments, the time interval for a wireless device is relative to when a previous group ACK was sent. A group ACK may include a bitmap. In some embodiments, the bitmap indicating whether a communication has been received or correctly decoded may be transmitted as part of a beacon.