Patent ID: 8483240
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of relaying messages over a communications network, the method comprising: identifying a primary message and at least one secondary message to be communicated from a transmitter, the primary message being designated for a first receiver node and the at least one secondary message being designated for a second receiver node that is geographically separated from the first receiver node; piggybacking the at least one secondary message onto the primary message to form a piggybacked message in response to a signal indicating that piggybacking of the at least one secondary message onto the primary message is possible, the signal being based at least in part on a characteristic of the first receiver node and the second receiver node relative to the transmitter node; and, transmitting the primary message and the piggybacked message at a same power level, wherein the piggybacking is further practiced by: scaling the at least one secondary message by a scale factor to form a scaled message; and, summing the primary message and the scaled message.