Patent ID: 8804604

Claim:
A method of receiving data in a wireless communications system comprising a source node, a relay node and a destination node, wherein the source node, the relay node, and the destination node communicate using at least a first channel and a second channel, the method comprising: the destination node receiving first RF signals from the relay node in the second channel, wherein the first RF signals represent a first set of data symbols; and the destination node receiving second RF signals from the source node in the second channel, wherein the second RF signals represent a second set of data symbols, wherein the data symbols in the second set of data symbols are functions of the data symbols in the first set of data symbols; wherein the relay node transmitted the first RF signals in the second channel in response to receiving third RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the first channel; the destination node decoding data represented by the first and second sets of data symbols using the first and second RF signals.