Patent ID: 7181206

Claim:
A subscriber platform operated by a subscriber for originating and conducting broadband communication for personal services in a dynamic ad hoc multi-channel network having a plurality of neighbor subscriber platforms, the subscriber platform comprising: an antenna for communication via a plurality of directional beams; a plurality of transceivers operating simultaneously, each transceiver coupled to the antenna for communication via a respective directional beam, at least two transceivers of the plurality providing a respective non-redundant received data stream from a respective neighbor subscriber platform of the plurality of neighbor subscriber platforms at a respective data rate, and at least one of the transceivers of the plurality performing communication supporting personal services of a neighbor subscriber platform; a port for coupling a provided local peripheral device to the subscriber platform, the peripheral device comprising at least one of a display device, a storage device, and a processing device, wherein the peripheral device accomplishes personal services in accordance with aggregated data and directed add by the subscriber via a provided user interface; a processor coupled to the port, wherein: (1) each directional beam has a respective direction responsive to the processor; (2) the processor is coupled to the plurality of transceivers; (3) each transceiver, in response to the processor for communication via a respective directional beam, uses a respective frequency channel; and (4) the processor assembles the aggregated data, the aggregated data being assembled in sequence and derived from at least a part of each respective received data stream, the aggregated data having an aggregated data rate greater than each respective data rate.