Patent ID: 7881245

Claim:
A method of broadcasting data in a wireless broadcast network, comprising: multiplexing data for a wide-area transmission onto a first transmission span, the wide-area transmission being sent from a plurality of transmitters in the network; multiplexing data for a local transmission onto a second transmission span, wherein the multiplexing is onto frequency subbands pseudo-randomly selected from among all usable frequency subbands and the local transmission being sent from a subset of the plurality of transmitters; selecting the first and second transmission spans based on an amount of data to broadcast for the wide-area transmission and an amount of data to broadcast for the local transmission; and broadcasting the local and wide-area transmissions via a wireless link, wherein the data for the wide-area transmission and the data for the local transmission are time division multiplexed (TDM) at each base station, and wherein the first and second transmission spans are first and second time segments, respectively, of a frame of a predetermined time duration.