Patent ID: 8315558

Claim:
A relay for use with a partner relay in a wireless transmission system, the wireless transmission system comprising at least one base station transceiver and at least one mobile station transceiver and having a first set of transmission resources allocated for forward link transmissions from the at least one base station to the at least one mobile station and a second set of transmission resources allocated for reverse link transmissions from at least one mobile station to the base station to the at least one base station, the relay comprising: a first receiver operable to receive a first signal on a first transmission resource in the first set of resources; a first transmission resource translator operable to translate the first signal from the first transmission resource to a second transmission resource in the second set of transmission resources to provide a translated first signal; a first transmitter operable to transmit the translated first signal on the second transmission resource; a second receiver operable to receive a second signal on a third transmission resource in the second set of resources; a second transmission resource translator operable to translate the second signal from the third transmission resource to a fourth transmission resource in the first set of transmission resources to provide a translated second signal; and a second transmitter operable to transmit the translated second signal on the second transmission resource.