Patent ID: 7765318

Claim:
A system for data transmission and reception comprising: (a) a wireless data broadcast system that broadcasts outgoing data from a data network to a plurality of users, wherein said wireless data broadcast system includes one or more broadcast repeaters that receive data at a first frequency and retransmit said data at a second frequency, and wherein the broadcast repeaters incorporate satellite data transmission technology that includes omnidirectional antennas that transmit data to users at more than 100 Mbps in a terrestrial line-of-sight multicast; and (b) a wireless data return path system that receives incoming data from said plurality of users and provides the incoming data to said data network, wherein the wireless data return path system includes: one or more wireless collector systems receiving data from a predetermined set of the plurality of users; and one or more return path system repeaters that receive data at a third frequency from one or more predetermined wireless collector systems and retransmit said data at a fourth frequency.