US 12,003,331 B2
Wireless data transmission apparatus, wireless data reception apparatus and methods
Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB); and Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/281,254
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079520
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089221, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18204003 (EP), filed on Nov. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006573 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 1/1829 (2023.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/1819 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1861 (2013.01); H04L 1/1893 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a receiver, the method comprising:
receiving a first plurality of blocks transmitted by a transmitter using first communications resources,
determining that at least one of the first plurality of blocks was not received correctly,
in response to determining that at least one of the first plurality of blocks was not received correctly, transmitting to the transmitter a first negative acknowledgement (NACK) indication indicating that at least one of the first plurality of blocks was not received correctly, the NACK indication not indicating which of the first plurality of blocks was not received correctly,
receiving a subset of the first plurality of blocks retransmitted by the transmitter in response to the NACK indication using second communications resources, and
after receiving the subset of the first plurality of blocks, determining whether all of the first plurality of blocks have been received correctly.