Patent ID: 8315224

Claim:
A method for reusing radio resources in a medical telemetry network, the method comprising: receiving at a server, traffic information for a plurality of mobile transceivers from a plurality of distributed receivers, wherein each of the plurality of mobile transceivers resides in a coverage zone formed by the plurality of distributed receivers; identifying time slot assignments and frequency channel assignments of the plurality of mobile transceivers based on the traffic information; updating one or more time slot assignments and/or one or more frequency channel assignments based, at least in part, on the traffic information; broadcasting updated instances of the time slot assignments and updated instances of frequency channel assignments; receiving at the server, error rate of each of the plurality of mobile transceivers; comparing the error rate of each of the plurality of mobile transceivers with a maximum permissible error rate; and transmitting error correction enable signals to enable error correction on one or more of the plurality of mobile transceivers responsive to the comparison, wherein the error correction comprises: transmitting on a first frequency, a first transmission comprising a payload data and a first error detection data associated with the payload data; and transmitting on a second frequency, a second transmission comprising forward error correction data associated with the payload data and a second error detection data associated with the forward error correction data, wherein the forward error correction data comprises parity data generated using an invertible code.