Patent ID: 8798617

Claim:
A mobile device for use in a peer-to-peer radio communication network coupled to a cellular radio communication network, comprising: a cellular radio transceiver; a short range radio transceiver configured for radio communication using unlicensed radio spectrum over distances of at least 5 feet, wherein the short range radio transceiver is not capable of cellular radio communication; a non-transitory memory; a processor; and an application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor, discovers at least one of a plurality of peer mobile devices and a plurality of stationary repeaters based on transmitting discovery messages periodically at a rate that depends on a speed of movement of the mobile device using the short range radio transceiver, wherein the plurality of stationary repeaters do not have a wired communication link and do not have a cellular radio transceiver, and wherein the discovery comprises receiving a geographical location of each of the at least one of the plurality of peer mobile devices and the plurality of stationary repeaters, identifies a plurality of base transceiver stations to each of which at least one of the discovered peer mobile devices provides a peer-to-peer network link, analyzes the geographical locations of the at least one of the plurality of peer mobile devices and the plurality of stationary repeaters, based on the analysis of geographical locations of the at least one of the plurality of peer mobile devices and the plurality of stationary repeaters, determines a plurality of geographical route lists, each of the plurality of geographical route lists constitutes the most direct path associated with each of the plurality of the base transceiver stations, and initiates a communication session to a first of the plurality of base transceiver stations via a first discovered peer mobile device in the peer-to-peer radio communication network based on the geographical route list associated with the first of the plurality of base transceiver stations, wherein the geographical route list comprises at least one stationary repeater.