Patent ID: 8325686

Claim:
A method of communicating information over one or more wireless channels in a network, comprising: controlling channel access among wireless stations by dividing channel time into one or more superframes, including schedules of channel time blocks (CTBs) for a high-rate channel and a low-rate channel; scheduling each superframe for communicating information, wherein scheduling includes creating one or more schedules each comprising CTBs including multiple inconsecutive reserved CTBs for communication of packets of information over one or more of the high-rate channel and one or more of the low-rate channel, wherein the low-rate channel and the high-rate channel cannot be used at the same time, and beacons and Acknowledge (ACK) packets are transmitted over the low-rate channel in between transmission of the information over the high-rate channel; and transmitting packets of information over the one or more of the high-rate channel and the low-rate channel during the reserved CTBs according to each schedule, wherein the high-rate channel transmission is single direction unicast and low-rate channel transmission is bi-directional, and the information comprises high definition (HD) uncompressed video information.