Patent ID: 8670358

Claim:
A full duplex radio bridge apparatus comprising: a first radio transceiver having an network port comprising an input packet data path and an output packet data path and having an radio frequency transmit port at which data packets modulated onto RF carriers are transmitted by a transmitter and having a radio frequency receive port at which RF carriers having data packets modulated thereon are received by a receiver, said first radio transceiver having a central circuit coupled to receive data packets from said input packet data path and coupled to said radio frequency transmit port via said transmitter and coupled to said radio frequency receive port via said receiver, said central circuit functioning to bridge all packets received at said input packet data path to said transmitter for transmission out said radio frequency transmit port, and to receive all packets recovered by said receiver from received RF carrier transmissions and bridge any said recovered packets which are not packets having data as their payload for transmission out said output packet data path, said central circuit further comprising software implementing a filter which blocks all packets having data as their payload recovered by said receiver from carriers received at said radio frequency receive port from being transmitted out said output packet data path; a second radio transceiver having an network port comprising an input packet data path and an output packet data path and having an radio frequency transmit port at which data packets modulated onto RF carriers are transmitted by a transmitter and having a radio frequency receive port at which RE carriers having data packets modulated thereon are received by a receiver, said second radio transceiver having a central circuit coupled to receive data packets from said input packet data path and coupled to said radio frequency transmit port via said transmitter and coupled to said radio frequency receive port via said receiver, said central circuit functioning to bridge all packets received at said input packet data path to said transmitter for transmission out said radio frequency transmit port and to receive all packets recovered by said receiver from received RF carrier transmissions and bridge said recovered packets for transmission out said output packet data path; and a splitter circuit having a network input port for receiving two or more transmit wires and two or more receive wires, said splitter circuit coupling said two or more transmit wires to said input packet data path of said first radio transceiver and coupling said two or more receive wires to said output packet data path of said second radio transceiver, said splitter circuit further comprising a data path coupling said output packet data path of said first radio transceiver to said input packet data path of said second radio transceiver.