Patent ID: 8073386

Claim:
A subscriber platform operated by a subscriber, the subscriber platform comprising: an antenna that provides a plurality of directional beams; a plurality of receivers operating simultaneously, each receiver coupled to the antenna for receiving via a respective directional beam, at least two receivers of the plurality providing a respective non-redundant received data stream from the network at a respective data rate; a display that presents a presentation in accordance with aggregated data; a transceiver coupled to the antenna that performs a routing function for the network via at least two directional beams of the plurality; and a processor coupled to the display, wherein: (1) each directional beam has a respective direction determined in response to the processor; (2) each receiver uses a respective frequency channel determined in response to the processor; and (3) 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.