Patent ID: 8351952

Claim:
A system for increasing robustness of a communications session between a mobile device and a communications network, the communications session capable of communicating data via multiple channels simultaneously, the network including a plurality of radio frequency (“RF”) emitters that emit RF over geographic regions that are respectively associated with at least one of the RF emitters, the system comprising: a first RF emitter in a first geographic region having a power level associated with a first portion of a first channel and operable to facilitate communicating data, the data forming part of a data stream associated with the mobile device; a second RF emitter in a second geographic region having a power level associated with a second portion of the first channel and operable to facilitate communicating data, the data forming part of the data stream associated with the mobile device; a third RF emitter in the first geographic region having a power level associated with a first portion of a second channel and operable to facilitate communicating data, the data forming part of the data stream associated with the mobile device; a fourth RF emitter in the second geographic region having a power level associated with a second portion of the second channel and operable to facilitate communicating data, the data forming part of the data stream associated with the mobile device; a first-channel intersection of the first and second portions of the first channel; and a second-channel intersection of the first and second portions of the second channel, wherein the location of the second-channel intersection is geographically separated from the location of the first-channel intersection.