Patent ID: 6477359
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A system for packet data communications for data-oriented applications, the system comprising:a plurality of radios, each of the plurality of radios supporting at least one packet-oriented data protocol common to all of the plurality of radios, and each of the plurality of radios comprising a receiver; a plurality of antennas in one-to-one communication with the plurality of radios for the packet data communications; and interwiring means for interconnecting the plurality of radios, wherein: each of the plurality of radios further comprises a data arbitrator, in communication with the data arbitrators of the others of the plurality of radios through the interwiring means, for requesting shadow reception service for said data-oriented applications from the other radios, controlling the radio associated with that data arbitrator to provide the shadow reception service in response to requests received from the other radios if the radio can provide the shadow reception service with the resources available, and arbitrating among possible multiple copies of a received packet data message associated with one of the data-oriented applications, said possible multiple copies received by the radio's receiver or by the interwiring means from the other radios, so that only a first copy of said possible multiple copies is further processed and subsequent copies of said possible multiple copies are not further processed.