Patent ID: 7715355

Claim:
A base station in a mobile communication network, comprising: a receive component to receive, from a higher rank station in the network, a particular data unit that includes a plurality of data units multiplexed together as the particular data unit, a first portion of the particular data unit being destined for the base station and a second portion of the particular data unit being destined for another base station in the network; a first processor to: receive the particular data unit from the receive component, determine that the first portion of the particular data unit is destined for the base station and that the second portion of the particular data unit is not destined for the base station, and discard the second portion of the particular data unit; and a second processor to: receive the particular data unit from the receive component, determine that the second portion of the particular data unit is destined for the other base station and that the first portion of the particular data unit is not destined for the other base station, and send the second portion of the particular data unit, and not the first portion of the particular data unit, to the other base station.