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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2009
Michael Andrew Fischer, San Antonio, TX (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Naarden, NL;
Michael Andrew Fischer, San Antonio, TX (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Naarden, NL;
Intellectual Ventures I LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A technique is disclosed that improves the efficiency of transmitting data over multiple shared-communications channels without some of the costs and disadvantages associated with techniques in the prior art. In particular, and in accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a data frame is simultaneously transmitted across a plurality of channels, but the acknowledgment frame to the data frame is not. Instead, a plurality of redundant acknowledgment frames are generated and each one is transmitted independently and within each of the channels used to transmit the data frame.