Patent ID: 7590084

Claim:
A network for wireless transmission of digital data, the digital data including real-time audiovisual content, the network comprising: a first wireless repeater having a first transceiver that receives the digital data on a first channel of a first frequency band, the first wireless repeater being configured for pipelined transmission of the digital data as packets, the first transceiver transmitting the packets at a certain data rate on the first channel non-interfering with any device simultaneously transmitting within an interference range of the wireless router, each packet being transmitted in a discrete time interval of a sequence of time intervals, each interval of the sequence being of equal duration, the wireless router receiving a first packet in a first time interval and transmitting the first packet in a second time interval, the second time interval immediately following the first time interval; a second wireless repeater having a second transceiver to receive the packets of digital data on the first channel and a third transceiver to re-transmit the digital data on a second channel non-interfering with any device simultaneously transmitting within an interference range of the second wireless repeater, each packet being re-transmitted during an interval delayed by one interval from an interval when the packet was received; a wireless receiver having a fourth transceiver to receive the packets of digital data on the second channel from the wireless repeater, the receiver being coupled to deliver the digital data to a destination device.