Patent ID: 8483119

Claim:
A method for cellular communication, comprising: receiving and storing at a diversity relay a first transmission of a data packet from a cell to a destination terminal; receiving at the diversity relay a response information indicating at least one of a response or a non-response by the destination terminal to said first transmission; determining, based on said response information, whether or not a future transmission of a data packet from the cell to the destination terminal will be a retransmission of the data packet of the first transmission; receiving at the diversity relay at least a portion of a scheduling information identifying a schedule for a second transmission of a data packet from the cell to the destination terminal; and in response to said receiving at least the portion of the scheduling information, if the determining indicated the future transmission will be a retransmission, retrieving the stored data packet of the first transmission and transmitting the retrieved data packet from the diversity relay to the destination terminal, else storing at the diversity relay a data packet of the second transmission as a new first transmission of a data packet.