Patent ID: 6850740
Filing Date: 2005-02-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating a plurality of data packets from a transmitter to a receiver in a radio communication system, comprising the steps of: establishing a first radio link between the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the first radio link is one out of every n time slots, n>1; establishing a second radio link between the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the second radio link is a different one out of every n time slots; and transmitting each of the plurality of data packets over both the first and second radio links, whereby the receiver receives each of the data packets twice, wherein each of the first and second radio links uses a frequency hopping channel and the first and second radio links are for exclusive use by the transmitter to transmit the plurality of data packets to the receiver, wherein for each of the plurality of data packets, transmission over the first radio link occurs on a different hop frequency than is used for transmission over the second radio link.