MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202415085188 A) filed by Apple Inc. on November 06, 2024, for Block Acknowledgment For A Multicast Transmission With Multiple Concurrent Streams.
Inventors include Boger, Yoel; Li, Guoqing; Senter, Marcelo; Shani, Ido; Kehaty, Leor; and Vainapel, Koby.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: The subject technology provides for block acknowledgment requests and block acknowledgment frames that can be used in conjunction with multicast transmissions that include multiple concurrent streams. Thus, the subject technology reduces the overhead associated with multicast transmissions that include multiple concurrent streams by aggregating the acknowledgments across multiple streams into a block acknowledgment, thereby increasing the effective throughput of such transmissions and overall network efficiency.
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