Patent ID: 7962094

Claim:
A method of redirecting communications in a wireless network, the method comprising: operating a first wireless subscriber station in a wireless network as a relay that relays wireless communications between a second wireless subscriber station in the wireless network and a base station in the wireless network in order to provide the second wireless subscriber station with access to a host system through the base station; detecting, at the first wireless subscriber station, an occurrence of a condition in response to which the first wireless subscriber station is configured to redirect wireless communications in the wireless network; and in response to detecting the occurrence of the condition in response to which the first wireless subscriber station is configured to redirect wireless communications, using the first wireless subscriber station to redirect the second wireless subscriber station to utilize a third wireless subscriber station in the wireless network as a relay that relays wireless communications between the second wireless subscriber station and a base station in the wireless network to provide the second wireless subscriber station with access to the host system, the third wireless subscriber station being different from the first wireless subscriber station.