Patent ID: 9571169
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method implemented by a serving base station in a wireless communication network for supporting coordinated multipoint transmission and reception for a primary mobile device, comprising: receiving, by the serving base station, during one iteration of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, a first data signal transmitted by a primary mobile device; in response to an acknowledgement signal transmitted by the serving base station to the primary mobile device, receiving, by the serving base station, during a subsequent iteration of the HARQ process and in a subframe following a subframe that the first data signal is received, a second data signal as retransmitted by a cooperating mobile device in a coordinating set for the primary mobile device, wherein the second data signal includes a retransmission of the first data signal; and combining the first and second data signals to produce a combined data signal.