US Patent 10425194 Cross-layer and cross-application acknowledgment for data transmission

Systems and methods may integrate acknowledgments, such as application-level acknowledgments and medium access control layer acknowledgments. For a cross-layer acknowledgment method, a medium access control layer acknowledgment and application-layer acknowledgment may be integrated as a single medium access control layer acknowledgment. For a cross-application acknowledgment method, an application-layer acknowledgment for a first application and application-layer acknowledgment for a second application may be integrated into a single medium access control layer frame.