Patent ID: 6760318
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A receiver diversity process comprising;each of a plurality of devices coupled to a switch receiving packets wirelessly transmitted from a mobile station; each device of the plurality of devices sending information to other devices in the plurality of devices indicating which of the wirelessly transmitted packets were received by said each device without error and a received signal strength for those packets of the wirelessly transmitted packets received without errors; each device comparing signal strengths of each packet of the wirelessly transmitted packets that said each device has received without errors that has also been received by at least one of the other devices in the plurality of devices; and in response to the comparison, for each of the wirelessly transmitted packets received without error, a device having a received signal strength higher than any other of the plurality of devices sending an acknowledgement packet to the mobile station, without having a remainder of the plurality of devices sending the acknowledgement packet to the mobile station for the respective wirelessly transmitted packet.