Patent ID: 8527016

Claim:
A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving, at an apparatus, information from a wireless device via a wireless communication link, wherein the information received from the wireless device is substantially identical to information the wireless device concurrently transmitted to at least one other apparatus with which the wireless device has established another wireless communication link, wherein the receiving comprises receiving pulses associated with a first set of sub-packets via a frequency band; processing the information received from the wireless device; transmitting pulses, at the apparatus, associated with a second set of sub-packets to the wireless device via the frequency band in between receiving sub-packets of the first set; identifying a potential or actual collision between one or more other pulses associated with the second set of sub-packets with one or more other pulses associated with the first set of sub-packets; and determining whether to transmit the one or more identified other pulses associated with the second set of sub-packets or whether to receive the one or more identified other pulses associated with the first set of sub-packets based on a confidence level associated with the one or more identified other pulses of the first set of sub-packets.