US 12,438,822 B2
Apparatus, system, and method of out-of-order delivery of wireless communication frames
Dave Cavalcanti, Portland, OR (US); Dibakar Das, Hillsboro, OR (US); Laurent Cariou, Milizac (FR); Dmitry Akhmetov, Hillsboro, OR (US); Ganesh Venkatesan, Hillsboro, OR (US); and Juan Fang, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/561,511.
Prior Publication US 2022/0116333 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 47/34 (2022.01); H04L 69/324 (2022.01); H04W 28/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 47/34 (2013.01) [H04L 69/324 (2013.01); H04W 28/14 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:
determine whether a stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery from a first Medium Access Control layer (MAC-layer) process to a second MAC-layer process, the second MAC-layer process is above the first MAC-layer process; and
based on a determination that the stream of frames is suitable for out-of-order delivery, deliver to the second MAC-layer process one or more frames of the stream of frames according to an out-of-order delivery scheme by selectively delivering a frame from the first MAC-layer process to the second MAC-layer process based on a Serial Number (SN) of the frame, a SN threshold, and a lowest SN corresponding to a frame of the stream of frames, which has not yet been received at the first MAC-layer process; and
a memory to store information processed by the processor.