Patent ID: 8539296

Claim:
A method for a first wireless communication device to communicate packets to a second wireless communication device, the method for the first wireless communication device comprising: performing a handshake over a first wireless communication link with the second wireless communication device to set parameters N and Xi; in an original transmission of first N packets, transmitting Xi copies of each ith packet in the first N packets over the first wireless communication link to the second wireless communication device, wherein N is one or more and at least one Xi is two or more; listening for a first acknowledgement in response to the first N packets over the first wireless communication link from the second wireless communication device, the first acknowledgment indicating if each of the first N packets has been received; and in a retransmission of the first N packets subsequent to the original transmission, retransmitting Xi copies of each ith packet in the first N packets to the second wireless communication device over the first wireless communication link when the first acknowledgement in response to the first N packets is not received within a predetermined time period.