Patent ID: 8416731

Claim:
A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving a downlink signal from a first node; demodulating said received downlink signal to form a pre-processed downlink signal; generating a channel quality measurement (“CQM”) value of said pre-processed downlink signal; when said CQM value exceeds a first threshold indicating a certain channel quality: determining if said CQM value exceeds a second threshold indicating a better channel quality; when said CQM value does not exceed the second threshold, decoding and re-encoding said pre-processed downlink signal; modulating said pre-processed downlink signal to form a processed downlink signal; and cooperatively transmitting said processed downlink signal with said first node to a wireless device; and when said CQM value does not exceed a first threshold, not transmitting said pre-processed downlink signal and monitoring for a re-transmission of the downlink signal; sending a list of capabilities via a capability response signal to said first node, the list comprising at least one of an expected maximum scheduling delay, a CQM threshold for only demodulating a signal, and a CQM threshold for demodulating and decoding a signal; and receiving a capability response acknowledgement from said first node comprising parameters based on the list for cooperatively transmitting with said first node.