Patent ID: 7769012

Claim:
A wireless communication method for performing transmission and reception while relaying a packet within wirelessly transmitted data, the method comprising: identifying a header of a received packet; performing a security check based on said header; determining a destination of the received packet based on said header; recognizing a next transmission destination by looking up a table, if said destination is not one's own station; determining the packet as one to be relayed based on the recognition of said header and the recognition of said next transmission destination; selecting a packet to be transmitted from packets determined to be relayed, by an application of one's own station; wirelessly transmitting the selected packet to be transmitted while controlling a data transmission rate for the selected packet by changing a modulation method of the selected packet; discriminating sequence numbers of the packets determined to be relayed and the packets to be transmitted by an application of one's own station; managing the discriminated sequence numbers; and if the received packet updates a sequence number, transmitting a reception completion confirmation packet into which the updated sequence number is inserted.