Patent ID: 8792403

Claim:
A method of processing a Transmission within a wireless network, the network including at least one device that transmits the Transmission and at least one device that at least receives the Transmission, the method comprising: receiving the Transmission at the device that at least receives the Transmission; determining a Transmission Signature for the Transmission based upon the product of an Originating Transmitter Identifier, identifying an Originating Transmitter, and a unique Message Transmission Identifier included in the received Transmission, wherein the Message Transmission Identifier is m bits in length; comparing the determined Transmission Signature with one or more stored Transmission Signatures of previous Transmissions stored in a memory of the device that at least receives the Transmission to determine whether the device that at least receives the Transmission has previously received the Transmission, wherein the memory for storing the Transmission Signatures has up to 2 m −1 entries for storing the Transmission Signatures; and actioning the received Transmission and storing the Transmission Signature in the memory of the device that at least receives the Transmission only if the device that at least receives the transmission has not previously received the Transmission.