Patent ID: 8705382

Claim:
A method of communication between communication devices operating within a wireless communication system, the method comprising: a subscriber station requesting, from an infrastructure station, uplink resources assigned by the infrastructure station for communicating with the infrastructure station; the subscriber station composing a transmission burst for transmission using the assigned uplink resources, wherein the transmission burst comprises (i) a first portion including a subscriber-to-infrastructure station header field and composed for demodulation and decoding by the infrastructure station and at least one neighboring subscriber station, and (ii) a second portion including an embedded subscriber-to-subscriber packet composed for demodulation and decoding by the at least one neighboring subscriber station; transmitting, using the assigned uplink resources, the transmission burst from the subscriber station to the at least one neighboring subscriber station and to the infrastructure station; the infrastructure station receiving the transmission burst; and the infrastructure station demodulating and decoding the first portion and ignoring the second portion of the transmission burst.