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

Claim 18:
19. 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 multiple times using respective different radio technologies for multiple transmissions of said coded data by one said antenna in said respective different radio technologies and decoding multiple transmissions of a coded packet of data received on one said antenna from another node and coded using said respective different radio technologies, 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 coded using said respective different radio technologies;
producing a first reassembled data packet by decoding the first coded data packet received at the first aerial node, 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; and
coding the first reassembled data packet for transmission from the first aerial node multiple times using different radio technologies, at least two of said transmissions being coded using different radio technologies, at least one of which is different from any radio technology used to code the first coded data packet.