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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2015
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abdolreza Asghari, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ehtesham Khan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
James D. Kirby, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to help manage sequential processing of messages. When a layer of a protocol stack in a computing device encounters a need to transmit two or more messages in a particular sequence, the layer generates and pass to a next layer of the stack a composite message defining the two or more messages together, rather than sending the messages one by one to the next layer. With this process, the combination of the two or more messages may thus pass between and/or through layers of the stack, and a layer of the stack receiving the combination may then extract the messages individually from the combination and output the extracted messages in sequence as desired.