US Patent 11503499 Acknowledgement of transmissions in a wireless local area network

A first communication device receives one or more aggregate medium access control (MAC) data units from respective one or more second communication devices. Respective aggregate MAC data units include multiple MAC data units from respective ones of the one or more second communication devices. The first communication device generates one or more acknowledgement information fields, including a first acknowledgement information field corresponding to a particular second communication device includes i) a length indication that indicates a length of an acknowledgement field, and ii) the acknowledgment field of the indicated length. The acknowledgement field includes respective acknowledgement information for at least some of the multiple MAC data units received from the particular second communication device. The first communication device generates an acknowledgement data unit to include the one or more one or more acknowledgement information fields, and transmits the acknowledgment data unit to the one or more second communication devices.