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

Claim 22:
23. A method of transmitting data via a radio route comprising multiple aerial nodes, wherein each of a plurality of said aerial nodes includes:
at least one antenna for receiving and transmitting radio signals; and
coding/decoding circuitry for coding a packet of the data for multiple transmissions by one said antenna in multiple signal formats different from each other and decoding a coded packet of data received from another aerial node on one said antenna in said multiple different signal formats, said data packet comprising content divided into segments, with each segment including error correction coding,
the method comprising:
receiving at a first aerial node multiple transmissions of a first coded data packet comprising two transmissions in respective first and second signal formats;
producing a first reassembled data packet by decoding the coded data packet received at the first aerial node in said multiple signal formats, applying error correction to each segment received at said first aerial node, and reassembling the data packet from the separate error-corrected segments deemed to have the fewest errors;
coding the first reassembled data packet for transmission of the first reassembled data packet from the first aerial node two times, once in the first signal format and once in a third signal format:
producing a second reassembled data packet by decoding the first reassembled data packet received at a second aerial node in said first and third signal formats, applying error correction to each segment received at said second aerial node, and reassembling the data packet from the separate error-corrected segments deemed to have the fewest errors; and
coding the second reassembled data packet for transmission from the second aerial node twice, once in the first signal format and once in a fourth signal format.