Patent ID: 9712282
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first station of a peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network, a data packet transmitted from a second station of the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network, the data packet addressed to multiple stations of the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network; and retransmitting, by the first station, the data packet to a third station of the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network; wherein a determination of whether to retransmit the data packet from the third station to at least one other station in the peer-to-peer infrastructure-less network or whether to suppress retransmission of the data packet is based on a signal strength of a retransmitted version of the data packet, wherein the data packet is transmitted by the third station to the at least one other station in response to determining that the signal strength fails to satisfy a threshold; wherein retransmission of the data packet is suppressed in response to determining that the signal strength satisfies the threshold; and wherein, in response to suppressing retransmission of the data packet: