US 11,985,543 B2
Sequence number expansion
Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, San Diego, CA (US); and Lochan Verma, Danville, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/028,024.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/914,811, filed on Oct. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/945,585, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0112451 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 28/065 (2013.01) [H04W 72/20 (2023.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a wireless communication device, comprising:
forming a plurality of frames, each of the plurality of frames including a respective frame header;
associating each of the plurality of frames with one of a plurality of unique sequence numbers;
embedding, for each of the plurality of frames, a first portion of the unique sequence number in an aggregated control (A-Control) subfield in a control field of the respective frame header, wherein the respective frame header comprises a medium access control (MAC) header and wherein a second portion of the unique sequence number is embedded in a field different from the control field; and
transmitting the plurality of frames.