US 11,943,054 B2
Block acknowledgment for a multicast transmission with multiple concurrent streams
Yoel Boger, Shoham (IL); Ido Shani, Shoham (IL); Koby Vainapel, Herzliya (IL); Leor Kehaty, Givataim (IL); Marcelo Senter, Shoham (IL); and Guoqing Li, Campbell, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/232,055.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/012,025, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0328724 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 47/2483 (2022.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 1/1621 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
transmitting, by a first electronic device, a block acknowledgment request associated with a multicast transmission, the multicast transmission comprising a first stream and second stream, wherein the block acknowledgement request comprises a first starting sequence number and a first maximum sequence number that indicate a first set of frames corresponding to the first stream and the block acknowledgment request comprises a second starting sequence number and a second maximum sequence number that indicate a second set of frames corresponding to the second stream;
transmitting, by the first electronic device, the multicast transmission comprising the first and second streams; and
receiving, by the first electronic device and from a second electronic device, a block acknowledgement response associated with the multicast transmission, wherein the block acknowledgment response indicates whether one or more of the first set of frames and one or more of the second set of frames were received by the second electronic device.