Patent ID: 8582456

Claim:
A method of data communication in a wireless network, comprising: transmitting a locality check message from a wireless transmitter to a wireless receiver over a wireless communication medium, wherein said transmitting comprises transmitting a first packet for adaptive processing of a locality check packet, to notify the wireless receiver to pass received first packet segment data and receiver collected data to a digital copy protection process layer of the wireless receiver, the wireless transmitter comprising a physical layer for wireless communication over the wireless communication medium; upon receiving a locality check response message from the wireless receiver at the wireless transmitter, marking the locality check response message as valid even if it arrives after an original locality check time period since transmission of the locality check message, but before the end of an adjusted locality check time period; wherein the adjusted locality check time period comprises said original locality check time period adjusted by delays in processing layers at the wireless transmitter and wireless communication medium access delays in data communication at the wireless transmitter.