Sony patents network method to speed up data confirmation requests
Sony has been granted a patent for a method that improves how devices confirm they have received data. The system adds extra details to the confirmation request, specifically listing the sequence numbers of the data packets in a compact format, so the receiving device knows exactly which items to check.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control for adding, to request information for requesting a different apparatus for a confirmation response to a plurality of data transmitted to the different apparatus, notification information. The notification information is information regarding at least sequence numbers other than a start sequence number from among sequence numbers corresponding to the plurality of data. Further, the control unit transmits the request information, to which the notification information is added, to the different apparatus.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to perform control for adding a notification information field to a request information field for requesting each of a plurality of different apparatuses for a confirmation response to specific data from among a plurality of data transmitted to the plurality of different apparatuses, the request information field regarding a start sequence number for the confirmation response, the notification information field regarding sequence numbers described in a bitmap of a variable length corresponding to the specific data from among the plurality of data for the confirmation response, the variable length being based on a set value of a compressed bitmap, and transmitting the notification information field together with the request information field, to which the notification information field is added, and an indication that the notification information is added, to each of the plurality of different apparatuses.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus, communication system, information processing method and program
- Patent number
- US12750163B2
- Application number
- 18806709
- Filed
- Aug 16, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 1/1614 Electricity & electronicsH04L 1/0057 Electricity & electronicsH04L 1/16 Electricity & electronicsH04L 1/1685 Electricity & electronicsH04L 47/34 Electricity & electronicsH04W 4/024 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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