Patent ID: 7177643

Claim:
A wireless network for transferring a signal from a source device to a destination device positioned remotely from the source device by passing the signal through a plurality of intermediate devices without using a tower, the network comprising: a plurality of intermediate transceivers each respectively associated with one of the intermediate devices and individually operable for reproducing the signal and transmitting the reproduced signal through the intermediate devices until the reproduced signal reaches the destination device; a source transceiver associated with the source device and operable for transmitting the signal to at least one of the intermediate devices; a destination transceiver associated with the destination device and operable for receiving the reproduced signal from at least one of the intermediate devices; and a routing system for determining an optimal routing path for transferring the signal from the source device through a set of the intermediate devices of the plurality of intermediate devices to the destination device, wherein the optimal routing path indicates the set of intermediate devices and is based, in part, on a prediction of the amount of time an intermediate transceiver in the set of intermediate transceivers will be in communication with the wireless network, wherein the prediction is based on the last state of the wireless network and predefined rules for predicting the location of at least one of the intermediate devices in the wireless network.