Patent ID: 7400856

Claim:
A method comprising: at a base site: determining a need to receive a wireless transmission from a transmitter that is presently within wireless communications range of the base site; automatically determining whether to selectively allocate a wireless relay resource intermediate between the base site and the transmitter to thereby at least attempt to increase a quality of service to support the wireless transmission from the transmitter, wherein the wireless relay resource comprises a demodulation processing relay resource; providing a grant instruction to the transmitter and the wireless relay resource comprising channel identification information and transmit parameters that are used by the transmitter to transmit and by the wireless relay resource to receive; providing an instruction to the wireless relay resource to cause the wireless relay resource to relay at least portions of the wireless transmission from the transmitter, wherein the instruction comprises providing at least identifying information regarding the transmitter and wherein knowledge of the wireless relay resource allocation is unnecessary for the transmitter; combining received portions of relayed transmissions from the wireless relay resource with portions of redundant transmissions from the transmitter to reconstruct the transmission.