MULTI-LINK DEVICE DATA CONTINUITY

Organization Name

intel corporation

Inventor(s)

Po-Kai Huang of San Ramon CA (US)

Daniel Bravo of Portland OR (US)

Ofer Schreiber of Kiryat Ono (IL)

Arik Klein of Givaat Shmuel (IL)

Laurent Cariou of Milizac (FR)

Robert Stacey of Portland OR (US)

MULTI-LINK DEVICE DATA CONTINUITY

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250081266 titled 'MULTI-LINK DEVICE DATA CONTINUITY

Original Abstract Submitted

this disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-link device (mld) data continuity. an mld device may set up one or more links with a station multi-link device (sta mld), wherein the sta mld comprises one or more logical entities defining separate station devices. the mld device may transmit a data packet associated with a traffic identifier (tid) to the sta mld. the mld device may determine that the data packet was not received by the sta mld. the mld device may retransmit the data packet to the sta mld. the mld device may increment a retransmit counter every time the data packet is retransmitted. the mld device may refrain from transmitting a second data packet until the data packet is dropped or successfully received by the sta mld.