Patent ID: 7965661

Claim:
A time division duplexing wireless communication system, comprising: a first half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in a first sector and a second half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in a second sector, both configured to alternate in transmission of modulated data over a first channel and reception of modulated data over a second channel; and a full-duplex modem/outdoor unit configured to alternate between: simultaneous transmission of modulated data to the first half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in the first sector over the second channel and reception of modulated data from the second half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in the second sector over the first channel, and simultaneous transmission of modulated data to the second half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in the second sector over the second channel and reception of modulated data from the first half-duplex modem/outdoor unit in the first sector over the first channel; wherein the full-duplex modem/outdoor unit is further configured to transmit odd frames of data to the first half-duplex modem/outdoor unit and even frames of data to the second half-duplex modem/outdoor unit both on the second channel, and configured to receive even frames of data from the first half-duplex modem/outdoor unit and odd frames of data from the second half-duplex modem/outdoor unit both on the first channel.