Patent ID: 8675538

Claim:
A method for conducting a one-to-one communication between a sender and a recipient, the method comprising: receiving an instance of a multicast signal at a first receiver of a plurality of receivers disposed at a plurality of locations, wherein separate instances of the multicast signal are received by each of the plurality of receivers from the sender, via parallel channels through an associated antenna, with at least two of the separate instances differing in a reception quality of the multicast signal; and forwarding, for reception by at least one processor, by the first receiver, the received instance of the multicast signal for recombining with other instances of the multicast signal received by others of the plurality of receivers to recover the one-to-one communication signal; wherein the at least one processor is part of the first receiver and wherein the recombining comprises combining by the at least one processor two or more differently corrupted versions of a packet from two or more separate instances of the multicast signal to recover the packet.