Patent ID: 8792412
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of cooperative wireless communication performed at an intermediate node, comprising: receiving a downlink signal from a first node; sending an acknowledgment signal to the first node indicating that downlink signal was successfully received; determining a channel quality measurement (“CQM”) value associated with the downlink signal; determining if the CQM value does not exceed a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is provided by the first node; when the CQM value does not exceed the second threshold, improving an integrity of the downlink signal by decoding and encoding the downlink signal to generate a processed downlink signal; and determining whether to transmit the processed downlink signal to a wireless device based upon the CQM value, and if so, cooperatively transmitting the processed downlink signal with the first node to the wireless device until a second acknowledgement signal is received from the wireless device at the first node or at the intermediate node.