Patent ID: 11870543
Assignee: STAR MESH LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method of transmitting data from an originating terrestrial node to a destination terrestrial node via a radio route comprising a plurality of aerial nodes wherein each aerial node has at least one antenna for receiving and transmitting radio signals and each terrestrial node has at least one antenna for receiving and transmitting radio signals in different directions, the method comprising:
receiving at the originating terrestrial node an original packet of data including an address designating the destination terrestrial node;
using coding circuitry at said originating terrestrial node to code the data packet for multiple transmissions in different signal formats and transmitting the coded data packet from at least one said antenna of the originating terrestrial node at least two times for reception by at least two aerial nodes in the radio route, wherein a first terrestrial transmission transmits the data packet in multiple signal formats in a first predetermined direction associated with the destination terrestrial node address, and a second terrestrial transmission transmits the data packet in multiple signal formats in a second predetermined direction associated with the destination terrestrial node address, at least one of said multiple transmissions comprising said second terrestrial transmission being in a signal format different from any signal format comprising the first terrestrial transmission;
using decoding circuitry in said first aerial node to decode the coded data packet received in said multiple signal formats to produce a first reassembled data packet;
using coding circuitry in said first aerial node to code the first reassembled data packet for transmission in a predetermined direction associated with the destination terrestrial node address, wherein said transmission transmits the first reassembled data packet from the first aerial node multiple times, at least two of said transmissions being in different signal formats;
using decoding circuitry in said second aerial node to decode the coded data packet received in said multiple signal formats to produce a second reassembled data packet;
using coding circuitry in said second aerial node to code the second reassembled data packet for transmission in a predetermined direction associated with the destination terrestrial node address, wherein said transmission transmits the second reassembled data packet from the second aerial node multiple times, at least two of said transmissions being in different signal formats and at least one of said transmissions being in a signal format different from any of the transmissions from the first aerial node; and
using decoding circuitry at said destination terrestrial node to decode all of the multiple transmissions of reassembled data packets received by the destination terrestrial node in different signal formats to produce a final data packet intended to re-create at the destination terrestrial node the original packet of data received at the originating terrestrial node.