Patent ID: 6285857
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A communications system comprising:an area access point, having a transceiver for outdoors bi-directional, free space, line-of-sight, electro-magnetic communication;a plurality of relay points spaced from one another and from said area access point and interconnected by communication links in cascade fashion, each of said relay points having a plurality of transceivers for bi-directional, free-space, line-of-sight, electro-magnetic communication with the transceiver of said area access point or a transceiver of another of said relay points, each of said relay points also having circuitry for detecting information received by each of the transceivers of that relay point and for causing another transceiver of that relay point to transmit at least some of that information, at least some of said relay points including user interface apparatus for selectively providing to a user at that relay point at least some of the information received by the transceivers of that relay point and for selectively adding additional information produced by said user to the information transmitted by the transceivers of that relay point; anda mechanism located at least two of said points configured to selectively reposition at least one of the transceivers at said points so as to establish a new communication link between said two points.