Patent ID: 8014350
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. Method of data transmission comprising: a mobile sending device searching for relay equipment and receiving devices in a field of local radio coverage; collecting quality factors associated with the relay equipment and the receiving devices responding to the searching; transmitting data from the mobile sending device to at least one receiving device via relay equipment; updating at least one quality factor associated with the the receiving devices and the relay equipment, the quality factor being based upon a history of data transmission; and transmitting data from the mobile sending device to a receiving device via relay equipment, wherein the data transmission from the mobile sending device to the relay equipment is conditioned based on the quality factors associated with the relay equipment capable of receiving the data, such that the data is preferentially transferred to the relay equipment in a decreasing order of the quality factors associated with the relay equipment, or such that the data is transfered to at least one relay equipment having a higher quality factor than a threshold quality factor and having a quality factor higher than a quality factor associated with the sending device.