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Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating retransmission of data packets in a packet radio communication system that utilizes a feedback acknowledgement scheme

  • US 7,050,397 B2
  • Filed: 07/02/2003
  • Issued: 05/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for a radio communication system having a sending station that sends data, the data formatted at an upper-level logical layer and into an upper-level data frame, and the upper-level data frame provided to a lower-level logical sublayer, the upper-level data frame further formatted thereat into at least one lower-level frame, the lower-level logical layer operable pursuant to an H-ARQ feedback scheme, said apparatus for facilitating retransmission by the sending station of the upper-level data frame if the the at least one lower-level frame fails to be adequately received, said apparatus comprising:

  • an H-ARQ detector embodied at the lower-level logical sublayer, said H-ARQ detector for detecting H-ARQ indications returned to the sending station; and

    an H-ARQ status response generator embodied at the lower-level logical sublayer of the sending station and adapted to receive indications of detections made by said H-ARQ detector, said H-ARQ status response generator for generating an H-ARQ status response message for delivery to the upper-level logical layer to notify the upper-level logical layer of the sending station when said H-ARQ detector detects an H-ARQ indication indicating that the at least one lower-level frame fails to be adequately received, the upper-level logical layer selectably operable responsive to receipt of the H-ARQ status response message to provide again the upper-level data frame to the lower-level logical sublayer.

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