Patent ID: 8130699

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting, by a base transceiver station in a first communication region, first data on a first channel to a first wireless device; simultaneously transmitting, by a first access point in a second communication region, second data on a second channel to the first wireless device such that the first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel, wherein the first channel and the second channel are located in different bands; and simultaneously transmitting, by a second access point, the second data on the second channel to the first wireless device in a third communication region; wherein the second communication region at least partially overlaps the third communication region; and wherein each of the first channel and the second channel is independently and properly formed so that a second wireless device that is unable to support channel aggregation is capable of communicating by independently using one of the first channel or the second channel.